Community & Society
WKSU: Nine Lives Project Remembers
Kent State University jazz ensembles instructor, Christopher J. Coles aspires to evoke emotions and conversations surrounding topics like social injustice and race through the display. “Nine Lives Project” has been viewed at workshops throughout Cleveland, Canada, and most recently broadcast in a Shuffle session with WKSU.
Students Design Innovative Ways to Connect Bayfront in Erie, Pennsylvania
A three-day trip is underway for Kent State University students to work with community leaders on finding new and creative ways to connect neighborhoods throughout Erie to its Bayfront, according to YourErie.com
Psychology Professor Tells O, The Oprah Magazine How Black Women Suffer from Financial Anxiety
Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, says there is a stressful expectation for black women in corporate America to financially provide for their family.
Sociology Professor Says to Reframe Children’s Anxiety in A Positive Light
College of Arts and Sciences professor says that understanding how your child copes with anxiety is key to helping them with back-to-school nerves.
Acclaimed Photography Exhibition Returns to Kent Campus
Kent State University is pleased and proud to announce the return of “We the People,” a photography exhibition that shines a light on our common humanity.
Kent State Associate Professor Says New Cartoon Breaks LGBTQ+ Boundaries
Kent State University Associate Professor Molly Merryman, Ph.D., says a Netflix cartoon featuring a transgender character is breaking a new boundary in a positive way.
Female Flyers Played Vital Role in World War II, Kent State Associate Professor Says
The recent death of one of the remaining members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II has a Kent State University associate professor recalling the vital role the female pilots played during the war.
Covering the Carnage: Journalists Risk Own Mental, Physical Health In Reporting from Dayton, El Paso
Note: Gretchen Hoak is a former television reporter/anchor and current assistant professor of journalism in Kent State University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Her research survey, , focused on how universities prepare young journalists for the trauma they may endure in covering violence. Kent State Today asked Hoak to share her thoughts on the impact the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton will have on the reporters assigned to cover these events.
Kent State Student Wins Talent Show for Singing in Sign
A North Royalton woman whom who will become a Kent State University student in the fall, won first place at the Medina County Fair talent show for performing a song in American Sign Language.
Kent State Prepares LeBron James Family Foundation I PROMISE Students for College Entrance Exams
Kent State University hosted several dozen high school students from the LeBron James Family Foundation's I PROMISE program for a month of intensive college entrance exam preparation.