Emerging scientists from three counties took part in the Ohio District 13 Science Day competition hosted by Kent State University at Tuscarawas on Saturday, March 4. Middle school and high school students from Carroll, Stark and Tuscarawas counties participated in the competition and displayed their knowledge and passion for various areas of science. District 13 Science Day is under the umbrella of the Ohio Academy of Science, the leading organization in Ohio advancing the understanding and practice of science, engineering and technology. This year marked the return of in-person Science Day...

If experience is the best teacher, then a handful of Kent State University's student journalists recently got the experience of a lifetime when they traveled to East Palestine, Ohio, to cover a train derailment that is getting attention across the country.  Professor Sue Zake, who serves as the faculty newsroom advisor for the School of Media and Journalism, led some of the students on a class trip the to the derailment scene, about 60 miles east of the Kent Campus so that students could learn what it's like to cover a major news event. The Norfolk Southern train came off the tracks Fe...

EHHS Professor Richard Ferdig, Ph.D., was part of a team of researchers who received the DLC Research Impact Award that was recently announced at closing ceremony of the Digital Learning Collaborative's annual conference in Austin. Practitioners have known that among the student populations served by online courses are students who are hospitalized or homebound due to accident or illness, but this is not a well-studied population. In partnership with faculty in pediatric medicine from the University of Florida, April Fleetwood, Ph.D., and her colleagues, Erik Black, Ph.D., and Lindsay Thomp...

The "Dear Ukraine" global community poem, an interactive website created by Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center, has encouraged people of all ages around the world to share their voices, inspired by a model poem written by Ukrainian-American poet Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach.  In a new partnership, the "Dear Ukraine" exhibit was recently installed on the walls of the Center for Prayer and Pilgrimage at the Washington National Cathedral in recognition of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  This partnership with the Washington Nationa...