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The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded Kent State a three-year, $298,000 International Research Experience for Students (IRES) grant that will allow graduate students to travel to Kyoto…
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![Kent State University is offering a community course at the May 4 Visitors Center that deals with the historical, cultural, social and political contexts of events before, during and after the May 4, 1970, shootings.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/may%204_1.jpg?VersionId=7LRXiH7abXHTQGGxOaOxcO91hjpCr4kM)
Kent State University is offering a community course that deals with the historical, cultural, social and political contexts of events before, during and after the May 4, 1970, shootings. The free course, Making Meaning of May 4: The Kent State Shootings in American History,…
Dear Members of the Kent State University Community,
I am writing today to provide an update on the field hockey incident that occurred on our campus last month. The Office of Compliance, Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action at Kent State has completed an internal…
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![A computer rendering of the Liberty of Poetry statue (shown here) was used by Kent State University to create the 3D-printed reproduction of the statue.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/Computer%20rendering%20of%20Liberty%20of%20Poetry%20.png?VersionId=YpOObUfvBkm7B37zH5akWw10pZrzr4sv)
Kent State University and the Opera di Santa Croce in Florence, Italy, will celebrate a collaborative partnership around the creation of “Sisters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy, to New York, New York,” an exhibition opening on Oct. 17, 2019, and running through April 26, 2020…
Kent State University Police arrested Christopher Eugene Clark, age 21, of Newton Falls, Ohio, for gross sexual imposition, assault and obstructing official business in connection to an incident that occurred Tuesday morning near the fitness track behind DeWeese Health Center on…
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![Kent State President Todd Diacon and his wife, Moema Furtado, embrace during the Kiss on the K event during Kent State's 2019 Homecoming.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/homecoming%20BC-6R.jpg?VersionId=vGjhTfuFfAgf5KW4vXek25hTDf5niIad)
Even Kent State University’s highest-ranking officials can experience a tug on their loyalties when the Golden Flashes take on their alma maters in athletic contests. President Todd Diacon, his wife, Moema Furtado, and head football coach Sean Lewis all will experience that…
*For media planning purposes, Kent State University is providing this monthly email that outlines all planned events for the upcoming month related to the 50th commemoration of May 4. For the latest updates on events, visit www.kent.edu…
You are not alone. Depression and anxiety don’t need to be masked.
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![Kent State University alumna Pat Gless reflects on May 4, 1970, near what was then the ambulance bay of the old Ravenna hospital.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/09.27.19%20Photo%202%20of%20Pat%20Gless.jpg?VersionId=uCELUp2nmVq._N.zBDJHuCV_YvVJJ9j.)
In the spring of 1970, two-time Kent State University alumna and registered nurse Pat Gless was a junior in Kent State’s inaugural nursing program. While in class on Monday, May 4, a professor rushed into her classroom and warned students who could leave campus to do so. …
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![A Kent State University graduate biological sciences – ecology student stands in the river with a video crew to record a scene for the new Kent State TV commercial.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/09.26.19%20Photo%201%20-%20Behind-the-scenes%20photo%20from%20Kent%20State%20commercial%20shoot.jpg?VersionId=d_q3EnTn_C_13hYkflhsMRZYBp8g5KXw)
An ecology student testing water in a river. A nursing student assisting a patient. A music student performing onstage. These are just three of the 30 Kent State University students featured in the new Kent State TV commercial that was developed and produced entirely in-house by…