Several areas on Kent State University's Kent Campus show damage from high winds that accompanied storms that swept across northeast Ohio on Thursday. There were tornado warnings in the area as wind gusts in Kent were measured at 80 mph.   This tree fell on The Commons, near the Victory Bell. Trees fell on Front Campus and on the May 4 National Historic Landmark site and there was extensive damage to the granite May 4 Memorial. A drone's-eye view shows some of the damage to the May 4 Memorial. University Facilities Management crews worked all night to clear ...

Lecturer Melanie Kirin received the Silver Teaching Recognition Award for Gamification/brackets in CTTE. The teaching development awards program recognizes actions that enhance teaching and learning at Kent State University. The program allows instructors to earn tiered awards (bronze, silver, gold & platinum) for their efforts to learn about, implement, evaluate and investigate evidence-based instructional practices. All instructors at Kent State, including graduate students and faculty of all appointment types (TT, NTT, adjunct) are eligible to participate. The&...