Campus CleanupIn May, a drone services company called Aero Velocity was on the Kent Campus to present a window-washing demonstration for Kent State University administrators and other local officials. The drones cleaned the exterior windows of Crawford Hall, and several other buildings on campus, demonstrating the increased efficiency, enhanced safety and costs savings that can be found in using drones for this type of maintenance service.Much like vehicles, buildings need regular maintenance to stay in top shape both aesthetically and to prevent degradation of building materials due to enviro...

For Mark Nowakowski, D.M.A., seeing his newest album rise to the top of Amazon’s Digital New Releases chart in Classical Music was a moment of gratitude more than surprise.“I hit refresh one evening, and there it was,” said Nowakowski, associate professor of music at Kent State University at Stark. “When this happened the first time several years ago with ‘Metanoia,’ I was ecstatic. I was calmer this time, but certainly grateful that it had happened again.”Nowakowski’s newest release, “The Seven Last Words of Christ,” reached No. 1 in early June, adding another milestone to his accomplished ca...

When Kent State unveiled plans for a proposed School of Fashion in Rwanda, the country's leading news outlets embraced the announcement as a milestone moment for Rwanda's creative economy — and for Africa's fashion industry as a whole.  Coverage in The New Times, Rwanda's largest English-language daily, IGIHE, one of the country's most widely read news platforms, and Taarifa, a Rwandan outlet focused on development and business, reflected both excitement and a clear sense of strategic purpose. Reporters framed the proposed Kent State University Rwanda not merely as a new institu...