Building the Future

Kent State University publicly launched a $350 million comprehensive fundraising campaign Saturday, Oct. 2, during a special halftime announcement at the Homecoming football game.

The Timken Foundation of Canton has donated a $1.5 million gift to the College of Aeronautics and Engineering Building expansion project. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Oct. 1 to officially begin this project that will add 80 percent more space to the college’s facilities.

Sydney Bihn, ’20, became the first woman to graduate from Kent State’s Aerospace Engineering Program and also became a third-generation engineer in her family.