Division of University Communications and Marketing
We hope you are having a great summer, Golden Flashes! This June, our social media content kicked off the summer season, welcomed new students and celebrated Kent State’s support for veteran and military students. To recap, here are some of our top-performing posts: Instagram: Our top-performing post kicked us off on the official first day of summer, when we posted a timelapse of campus transitioning from spring to summer. Our followers watched as the snow fall turned into a bright sunny day! The post was viewed 7,832 times and received 1,629 likes. Placing this post in the top 3 p...
How does the Kent State community find out what events are happening on campus? Where do you go to find your weekend plans? "Where On the Web?" is an ongoing series that introduces possibly unfamiliar pages and features on the Kent State University website that students, faculty and staff should know about. One informative section of the website is the Events Calendar page. “Our calendar page is actually an event hub that provides access to the academic calendar, holidays, general events and student-specific events,” said Lin Danes, director of Web Services and Interactive Me...
On Saturday, July 16, the Kent State High-Power Rocket Team was recognized at the 2022 Spaceport America Cup Awards Ceremony for their 1st place win in the 10,000 ft AGL apogee student researched and developed (SRAD) solid rocket propulsion system, also known as the 10K SRAD Solid category. One-hundred and forty-nine teams were invited to participate in the competition, and a total of 100 teams accepted the invitation. The Kent State High-Power Rocket Team earned the overall ranking of 8th place and this was the first year the Kent State High-Power Rocket Team p...
College of Communication & Information
Recent Kent State journalism graduate Kelly Krabill’s online broadcast feature on urban farming recently was named the National Winner by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). Krabill, who graduated in May 2022, worked on the piece for WKSU as part of NewsLab, an initiative that links students in the School of Media and Journalism with professional media partners in Northeast Ohio. She earned the national award in SPJ’s Broadcast/Online Feature Videography category. Watch the story “It's an honor to be recognized as a winner for the Society of Prof...