The stanzas of “Dear Vaccine,” a collection of pandemic memoirs written by citizen poets turned staged theatrical production, made their way home to the Kent State University Museum on Monday, Oct. 2. In a collaboration between the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University and the University of Arizona Poetry Center, the evolved work has made its way from Washington, D.C., to Kent. What started as a poem of prompts from American poet Naomi Shihab Nye, citizen poets were invited to participate in a book based on Nye’s poem surrounding the global pandemic. Just months after the book was ...

Changes are coming to Rave, Kent State University’s Emergency Communication System, which is used to send Flash ALERTS as text messages when important information needs to be distributed in a timely fashion, such as during a safety crisis or weather emergency.  Previously, students, faculty and staff were able to opt in to Rave/Flash ALERTS to receive urgent notifications from all campuses via text messaging. Beginning Oct. 5, any university community member who has provided Kent State with a domestic cellphone number will automatically be added to the university’s Rave Flash ALERTS...