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Kent State University has been recognized in Newsweek's 2021 list of the Best Maker Schools in Higher Education.

Kent State has partnered with InSinkErator庐 through the implementation of Grind2Energy庐, an organics recovery process that converts food waste to renewable energy.

The COVID-19 pandemic halted Kent State University鈥檚 plans for the 2020 Environmental Science and Design Symposium, but it hasn鈥檛 impeded the spirit of the conference.

The words 鈥渂iology鈥 and 鈥渄esign鈥 might not typically intertwine; however, Kent State University鈥檚 Biodesign Challenge course was created to challenge the idea that the two separate disciplines could not collaborate.

Ten Kent State University students were awarded $1,000 each for their creative use of videos, podcasts and Adobe Spark庐 pages to reflect on the events of May 4, 1970, as part of the university鈥檚 Design Innovation Common Reading Challenge

Thirteen cross-disciplinary teams presented in the Kent State competition for Mission:Life on Wednesday, October 2, 2019.

Kent State University and the Opera di Santa Croce in Florence, Italy, will celebrate a collaborative partnership around the creation of 鈥淪isters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy, to New York, New York,鈥 an exhibition opening on Oct. 17, 2019, and running through April 26, 2020, at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island in New York.

Kent State鈥檚 Design Innovation Hub is setting the stage for transformative research and innovation across disciplines.

Kent State鈥檚 makerspaces, which number more than 25 across the eight-campus system, was named the top program in Ohio and entered the top 10 by surpassing programs at schools such as the University of Southern California, Arizona State University, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Harvard University.

Kent State University celebrated the launch of a dynamic new space, the Design Innovation (DI) Hub, which will bring innovations from many disciplines together in a 68,000-square-foot building near the center of the Kent Campus.