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![Members of the Kent State University Esports team participate in a competition held in the university’s Memorial Athletic and Convocation (MAC) Center.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/08.21.19%20Photo%20of%20Kent%20State%20Esports.jpg?VersionId=0nIwwxTp5lcd0fburFQp4TiFPx_VED1t)
Cavs Legion Gaming Club (GC), the NBA 2K League affiliate of the Cleveland Cavaliers, has teamed up with Kent State University Esports in a unique new partnership designed to help grow and strengthen the local gaming community in Northeast Ohio, as well as promote the university…
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![Kent State's makerspaces outrank Harvard, University of Michigan Ann Arbor](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/design-innovation-orb_1.jpg?VersionId=eakxmn0AOzLESXNKyTYbzGn_rJBqPp.u)
Kent State’s makerspaces, which number more than 25 across the eight-campus system, was named the top program in Ohio and entered the top 10 by surpassing programs at schools such as the University of Southern California, Arizona State University, the University of Michigan…
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![Movers and Groovers Help Students Move into Residence Halls](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/20190818-014%20Movers%20and%20Groovers3%20%28002%29.jpg?VersionId=eALHlCiQZWGPzLDXuvvhnWBxMZdaV8nR)
More than 1,000 volunteers from the Kent State University community welcomed and assisted new students as they moved into their residence halls on freshman move-in day, Sunday, Aug. 18. The annual community program, known as Movers and Groovers, is coordinated by Kent Interhall…
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![Shown is "Make Amerikkka Great Again" (2019), designed by Kent State University Fashion School student Colin Isaacs.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/WEB%20Cover%20page_wj.jpg?VersionId=iuuvh.Q_rU5tFcb1Ok18efxbBlXDcxh.)
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on Kent State University students protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, killing four and wounding nine, students and faculty from Kent State’s School of…
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![Finish Line Feeling. A Kent State student embraces the moment after receiving his degree during the Aug. 17 undergraduate commencement ceremony at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation (MAC) Center.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/DSC_3010.jpg?VersionId=iv35nnxEU3mty3zs3KHhFyTn2GLS0xwf)
The Kent State University alumni network again grew its ranks this summer as more than a thousand Golden Flashes got their degrees. Kent State will held its Summer 2019 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 17, at the Memorial Athletic and…
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A Kent State University researcher with a background in safety training models — and a very personal motivation — has devised a method to help some children with food allergies stay safe, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) just granted him the funding to test it.
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![A new Kent State University graduate looks for her family and shows her excitement after receiving her diploma during Summer 2018 Commencement.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/08.08.19%20Photo%20from%20Kent%20State%27s%202018%20Summer%20Commencement.jpg?VersionId=tjYLeNKiVBqIGnAGWVMkmi_d8QypfmRN)
The Kent State University alumni network will again grow its ranks this summer as more than a thousand Golden Flashes get their degrees. Kent State will hold its Summer 2019 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 17, at the Memorial Athletic and…
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![Covering the Carnage: Journalists Risk Own Mental, Physical Health In Reporting From Dayton, El Paso](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/1action-adult-aperture-320617_edited.jpg?VersionId=wU.jKj1I_a33kr8OlAYAf_aF.EE1cJen)
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,…
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![A man in a chef's hat shows young children how to make food.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/160726-F-JN951-068.jpg?VersionId=VBtWnLiQKGhPG72YihOk4W99LgzEBvcH)
Science is complex, and it’s difficult to discuss it with children under the best circumstances; it’s even more difficult when they are hungry. Two Kent State University researchers may have cooked up a way to solve both of those problems, and the National Science Foundation…
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![LeBron James Family Foundation I PROMISE students take part in an awards dinner marking the end of their four-week Kent State camp for intensive college entrance exam preparation.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/I%20Promise%202019%20Camp%20Finale.jpg?VersionId=dQix6rfBrXKBdS38z7IzRIVnrpm_NDm0)
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.