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We are approaching that time of year when we start preparing for the upcoming semester. Learn how to copy content from your previous Canvas courses.
On chilly, gray days like today, people can find a place that's warm and green in the greenhouse behind Cunningham Hall on the Kent Campus The Herrick Conservatory is home to a large and diverse selection of plants, plus some fish and a couple of turtles. Highlights of the collection include a 30-year-old rubber tree, a strawberry guava tree, banana trees, flowering plants and vegetables, succulents, tropical varieties and even carnivorous plants. The conservatory is managed by Melissa Davis (pictured), horticultural facilities director. It i...
Entrepreneurship major Audrey Ernst's love of baking and a microgrant have helped her baking business take shape. ...
“My mom’s an art teacher,” is how Kent State University student David Brondfield introduced himself to cartoonist Tom Batiuk, a Kent State alum and creator of the “Funky Winkerbean” and “Crankshaft” comic strips. “Art teacher is a great job,” replied Batiuk, who worked as a junior high art teacher in Elyria, Ohio, before his career as a cartoonist took off. Brondfield, a junior from Mayfield, Ohio, majoring in computer information systems, was the first in line to get an autograph from Batiuk, who was at the University Bookstore on the Kent Campus Wednesday signing copies of ...
We are approaching that time of year when we start preparing for the upcoming semester. Learn how to copy content from your previous Canvas courses.
We hope all of our Golden Flashes had a fantastic and safe Halloween! This spooky season has had a lot of fall-themed events paired with some fun social media content! Let's take a look at our top-performing posts from this October. Instagram Our top Instagram post was a Reel that featured our Golden Flashes students and what they were listening to as they made their way around Kent Campus. This post also featured a spotify playlist of all the songs our Flashes are listening to! View this post on ...
Current and former faculty and alumni have featured art pieces in the new exhibit Now and Then: Seven Decades of Kent State Ceramics. The exhibit focuses on former faculty, notable alumni and a juried selection of alumni from the 70-year history of the Kent State Ceramics Program. You can visit the event at Kent State University’s Downtown Gallery, 141 E. Main St., Kent, Ohio. The exhibit will be on display until Jan. 14 and then will move to Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati to be presented at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference. The entries ...
In recent decades, the game of lacrosse has grown in popularity, especially among the high school and college population. In spring of 2018, the Kent State women’s lacrosse team became the first new women’s Division I sport to be added to the Kent State University roster since women’s golf was added nearly two decades prior. As one might imagine, a new sports team has much to prove, and these collegiate athletes are no different, with attempts to validate themselves both on the field and in the classroom each day. Junior Taylor Monturo and seniors Allison Kortowich and Kenzie...
Tough. Competitive. Relentless. Determined to play in the NFL. That’s Julian Edelman, the former New England Patriots receiver and Kent State University graduate, who is featured in the latest episode of “A Football Life.” The documentary-style series by NFL Films tells the untold stories of the most influential NFL icons. In Episode 4 of Season 11 that premiered Nov. 25 on the NFL Network, “A Football Life” chronicles Edelman’s career, from his beginning in California and taking the junior college route at the College of San Mateo to playing at Kent State, a Division I school in t...
Bobby Makar, a name remembered fondly by students and faculty in the School of Media and Journalism (MDJ), was a storyteller, a compassionate friend and inspiring teacher. He died unexpectedly in November 2020, and since then, more than 100 donations have been made to establish memorial scholarship in his name. Makar earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from MDJ. He went on to become a cherished adjunct faculty member in the digital media production major and made significant contributions to the curriculum. Emeritus Associate Professor David Smeltzer, who knew Makar as bot...
The Women's Center, in collaboration with Wick Poetry, School of Peace and Conflict Studies, May 4th Visitor Center, The Society of Global Cultures and the May 4th Task Force will be hosting a discussion about the protests in Iran. The conversation will feature Dr. Mahtab Tehrani, who earned her bachelor's degree and PhD in neurobiology from Kent State and is now a post-doc at Northeast Ohio School of Medicine as well as Fatemeh (Goli) Kavoosi who is a current first-year student at Kent State. We will learn more about what is happening in Iran, discuss how the denial of human rights in Ir...