Student Life
Kent State Nursing Student Honored for Lifesaving Effort
A Kent State College of Nursing student who graduated Aug. 20 recently was honored by the city of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, along with her sister, for working to save the life of a woman who fell ill while playing volleyball.
Kent State Students Study Sustainable Gardening for Poverty Reduction in Mexico
Kent State University partnered with Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City for an international, cross-cultural exchange for students to study how sustainable gardening projects aid immigrant populations.
Undergraduate Student Government Wins 2022 Student Government of the Year Award from National Student Government Group
Kent State's Undergraduate Student Government, the student organization responsible for being the direct line of communication to the administration to make students鈥 voices heard, was honored with the 2022 Student Government of the Year Award from the Conference on Student Government Associations.
Where on the Web? Explore Kent, Go! Kent State鈥檚 Golden Location Showcase
Kent State University's Explore Kent, Go! web pages give the Kent State community the ability to explore Kent State鈥檚 campus, downtown Kent and surrounding cities. Next in the 鈥淲here on the Web?鈥 series, the focal point is the Explore Kent, Go! web pages at www.kent.edu/go. The Explore Kent, Go! web pages are an introduction to the diverse opportunities offered by the university鈥檚 niche area in the Midwest, according to Lin Danes, director of Web Services and Interactive Media at Kent State.
100 YEARS AGO AT KENT STATE: Distance Learning Comes to Kent State Normal College
In 1922, Kent State鈥檚 first president, John McGilvrey, introduced what could be considered the great-grandmother of our current distance-learning programs at Kent State: correspondence courses.
100 YEARS AGO AT KENT STATE: Jazz Age Brings Changes to Student Culture at Kent State
"Roaring 20's" Bring New Styles and Social Rules. Women, in keeping with the fashions of the time, were wearing shorter skirts, bobbing their hair, wearing makeup, along with other sweeping changes.
Kent State Freshman Receives Gold Medal Recognition at The National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships
First-year advertising major and marketing minor, Isabelle Collyer, recently won a gold medal at the 2022 National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships (NCTA).
Kent State Partnership with Portage County Agency Saves More than Half a Million Pounds of Residence Hall Castoffs from Landfill
Workers from the Portage County non-profit organization recently arrived at Kent State University鈥檚 Kent Campus to collect one of the most prized castoffs from university residence halls: bicycles.
Kent State University鈥檚 American Academy Graduates Its First Brazilian Student
Alvacir Wesley Kalatai Alberti of Imbituva, Brazil, is the first student to graduate from the American Academy, a dual-enrollment program offered jointly at Kent State and the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, located in Curitiba, Parana, Brazil.
Where on the Web? Find Plans With the University Events Calendar
How does the Kent State community find out what events are happening on campus? Where do you go to find your weekend plans? "Where On the Web?" is an ongoing series that introduces possibly unfamiliar pages and features on the Kent State University website that students, faculty and staff should know about. One informative section of the website is the Events Calendar which can be used by anyone and features events from all eight Kent State campuses.