BLUE MAN GROUP with light show in the background

BLUE MAN GROUP will make its much-anticipated return to the Performing Arts Center at Kent State University - Tuscarawas for three performances Monday, October 10 through Wednesday, October 12. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. each night. More than 50 million people around the world have experienced the smash hit phenomenon that is BLUE MAN GROUP and now it’s your turn! It’s everything you know and love about BLUE MAN GROUP—signature drumming, colorful moments of creativity and quirky comedy—the men are still blue but the rest is all new! Featuring pulsing, original music, custom-made instrume...

International students at Kent State show their home country pride during a 2022 basketball game at Kent State.

Kent State University is celebrating a 17.7% increase in international student enrollment this year, due in large part to increases in international graduate student admissions.  Administrators in the Office of Global Education say the numbers indicate that many international students who had postponed their education during the COVID-19 pandemic have resumed travel.  “They are resuming their life and resuming their plans,” said Marcello Fantoni, vice president for Global Education.   For the 2022 Fall Semester, Kent State welcomed 1,648 international students, marking a...

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Text logo that reads Mindful Mile and Taste of Kent State

This fall, Kent State University welcomes back The Mindful Mile and Taste of Kent State, so mark your calendars for Sept. 23, 2022. Both events run in tandem from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.  The Taste of Kent State, which takes place on the Risman Plaza Student Green, offers food samples to showcase delicious culinary offerings from around campus. After trying items at the Taste of Kent State, stop by the University Culinary Services booth to grab your Mindful Mile ticket and a bag for giveaways. The Mindful Mile is a 1-mile walk around the Kent campus that is open to faculty, ...

Quick Tip: Academic Engagement Verification (AEV) Roster & Canvas

POSTED: Sep. 14, 2022

The Academic Engagement Verification (Formerly called Academic Presence Verification Roster) operates differently in Canvas. Marking a student as NF or SF will NOT remove the student’s access to Canvas. This allows you to make some decisions about what you would like to occur before changing the access status.

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Honors College fall 2022 freshman move-in ice cream social

If you ask chemistry major Daniel Zalamea what he likes best about Kent State’s Honors College, he has a tough time giving you just one answer.  “I like how our Honors classes are smaller and how I have a better connection to my professors,” said Zalamea, the Honors College May 4 Scholarship Award recipient for the freshman class. “I also enjoy how calm our dorms are. My professors are amazing, and the campus feels even nicer now that I live here.”  A graduate of Bio-Med Science Academy in Rootstown, Ohio, Zalamea was also impressed by Kent State’s academic programs and student acc...

Dr. Amy Petrinec, Wayne Nieh, Cindy Wilk

Wayne Nieh is a third-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) student at Kent State University’s Geauga Campus. This past summer, he was a member of Kent State’s 2022 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE), gathering data from patients’ family members at Summa Health in Akron. Gaining a sense of graduate-level and post-doctoral research while yet an undergrad, Wayne worked in cooperation with his SURE mentor, Associate Professor in the Kent State College of Nursing Dr. Amy Petrinec, PhD, RN and her PhD student, Cindy Wilk  PhD(c), APRN-CNS, CCRN-K, CNE, Senior Lecturer and Adu...

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