"Poetry and science are not opposites, they’re actually allies," said David Hassler, director of Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center.  Hassler paraphrases American poet Jane Hirshfield, who, in 2017, contacted him to collaborate on a Poets for Science project, which is now an interactive exhibit and writing invitation housed at the Wick Poetry Center on the Kent Campus. The pair recently performed together at the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit: “Truth, Trust and Hope,” in Washington, D.C.  Poetry and science, Hassler said, come together to create meaningful emotional con...

We invite you to an upcoming panel, “Difficult Work and Self-Care in the Academy,” on Wednesday, April 19 from 3:30pm to 5:00pm in the lower atrium of Cartwright Hall. Hosted by the Anti-Racism and Equity Institute and in collaboration with the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, this session will focus on strategies that promote life balance for faculty who teach or conduct research in areas that are controversial or highly politicized. The session will give faculty the opportunity to engage in a focused discussion on ways to manage stress and increase well-being, health, ...

Dear Kent State University Students, Faculty and Staff, I write to you amid advancing legislation in Columbus, an expected U.S. Supreme Court ruling and the potential for more developments in these early months of the 2024 election cycle that will have impacts on our university. I have spent a considerable amount of time speaking on our behalf in meetings with the author of Ohio Senate Bill 83 at the Statehouse, with Gov. Mike DeWine, with Ohio’s higher education chancellor and with presidential colleagues from across the Ohio public universities. I have worked to make clear how our univ...