“I Heart Travel Week” is back again to celebrate education abroad and international education. During the week of April 6-10, 2026, the Office of Global Education will be hosting daily events where Kent State students can learn about education abroad opportunities, gain travel tips, connect with classmates participating in the same programs and more!“We are excited to celebrate our annual I Heart Travel Week again this year,” shared Senior Education Abroad Advisor Margaret Betz who assists with coordinating the week’s events. “Our event weeks provide an opportunity for students to explore prog...

Professor Alice Cone, Department of English instructor, will be teaching the course Traveling and Writing at the Florence Summer Institute during the June session.Professor Cone first started teaching at the Florence Summer Institute due to what felt like luck back in 2017. At the time, she didn’t know much about the program, until one of her colleagues from the Stark campus, who was supposed to teach Writing Across Borders at the Florence Summer Institute, was unable to go and Cone volunteered to teach the course in his place. Discovering a passion for the Florence Summer Institute program, C...

Research led by Yi Gai, Ph.D., professor and director of the School of Aeronautics, recently moved from published scholarship into direct industry discussion during a visit to Breeze Airways headquarters in Cottonwood Heights, Utah.On March 10, Gao joined Sen Wang, assistant professor in the Department of Geography at The Ohio State University, to present findings from their collaborative study examining Breeze Airways’ market impact.The visit included discussions with Breeze Airways’ leadership, including Eric Walters, director of pricing, revenue management, distribution and sales, and Lukas...

Journalism is not often perceived as an emotionally challenging career, but journalists can experience any number of traumatic stress symptoms from stories that they cover, especially those involving death or human suffering.   These are the topics Gretchen Hoak, Ph.D., associate professor of journalism of Kent State University, explores in her new podcast “Informed Reporting,” which launched March 16.  “Symptoms such as trouble sleeping, anxiety, being overly aware and vigilant, called hypervigilance, being depressed, or being jumpy and quick to anger can develop after journali...