Community Impact
Ye Lu, assistant professor in the College of Aeronautics and Engineering, gives his thoughts on NASA's recent Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART).
The late Kirk Mangus was an art professor at Kent State University renowned for his ceramic art, sculpture, drawings, paintings and murals.
Kent State University鈥檚 inaugural Anti-Racism Conference kicked off Oct. 6 with several hundred students, faculty and staff taking part.
Alumna Jessica Hudson, the new president of the Summa Foundation and chief development officer for Summa Health, answers five questions with Kent State Today about her new role.
The Kent State University Golden Flashes family was marking milestones and making memories at Homecoming 2022, held Saturday, Oct. 1. Kent State alumni, students, parents, employees and community members donned their blue-and-gold gear and reunited for one of the university鈥檚 long-standing traditions.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted recently issued a joint proclamation recognizing the impact that employee-owned companies have on Ohio鈥檚 economy as well as the work of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center (OEOC) based at Kent State University, which requested the proclamation. The OEOC has served as a nonprofit outreach center providing support, resources and assistance to businesses since 1987.
EHHS alumnus Erica Maxwell and her teenage daughter, Jessica Alexander, visited the Child Development Center to read from their newly published book, 鈥淏eauty With a Birthmark.鈥
It鈥檚 time to wear blue and gold as the Kent State University Golden Flashes family reunites for Homecoming 2022. Kent State will celebrate Homecoming with activities and events leading up to the Oct. 1 Homecoming Parade and Homecoming football game.
It may surprise you to learn that 鈥淐aptain Underpants,鈥 鈥淔rankenstein,鈥 鈥淭he Great Gatsby,鈥 鈥淗unger Games鈥 and 鈥淭he Perks of Being a Wallflower鈥 are all popular books that have been banned, along with many others. In honor of Banned Books Week, the Second Annual Banned Books Read-In was held in Taylor Hall.
Members of the Kent State University community can take great pride in their university鈥檚 hometown. The city of Kent has been selected by Ohio Magazine as a 2022-2023 Best Hometown. The Best Hometown honor recognizes Kent as a great place to live, work and visit.