Dear Kent State University Students, Faculty and Staff, As we approach Thanksgiving, everyone needs to think about their health and safety and the health and safety of others during our holiday break. We know that many of you will be going home to spend the holiday with family, gathering with friends or traveling for pleasure.  We strongly encourage everyone, whether vaccinated or not, to take advantage of the free COVID-19 testing we offer on our campuses to ensure that you don’t spread the virus to others over the Thanksgiving break. COVID-19 testing also is available at vari...

Significant and historical gifts illuminate the many facets of philanthropy Kent State University’s season of giving launched on Nov. 1 with Giving Tuesday, a monthlong celebration of philanthropy. Now halfway through the campaign, the generosity of the Kent State community has already begun to shine.  “In the seven years since we began Giving Tuesday at Kent State, it has grown into the university’s most generous annual tradition through the thousands of gifts and millions of dollars raised by our community on behalf of students and programs,” said Leigh Greenfelder, associate vice...

A Kent State University professor in the College of Arts and Sciences is once again on Clarivate's list of Highly Cited Researchers in the world. Mietek Jaroniec, Ph.D., professor in Kent State’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is again ranked in the top one percent of chemists and materials scientists, based on citations in Clarivate’s Web of Science database. His area of research expertise is in adsorption, chemical separations, and chemistry of nanomaterials, which he describes as an "exciting and important research field, especially design and synthesis of well-...

Lt. Col. Adrien G. Humphreys is the department chair and a professor of military science at Kent State University, a position that is responsible for overseeing the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps. In this role, Humphreys is charged with developing, training, and ultimately commissioning students who graduate with baccalaureate degrees to fill challenging leadership roles in the United States Army. She provides oversight of the military science curriculum, leadership labs, military history and the profession of arms seminars while simultaneously supervising 10 assistant professors of ...

Dear Kent State University Students, Faculty and Staff, This Thanksgiving, we have the opportunity to consider three words that begin with “m.” In the history of presidential communications, the words “mask,” “mandate” and “mashed potatoes” (OK, that’s four words) have perhaps never appeared together. As you plan for our upcoming holiday, I urge you to make it a safe and restful one as we continue to take care of each other in the true spirit of Kent State.  Thank you for wearing masks when indoors at Kent State. This helps all of us stay healthy and no doubt contributes to an overa...

Kent State University at Ashtabula’s viticulture and enology degree programs were recently awarded a $180,000 grant from the Ohio Grape Industries Committee for a pair of research projects to be conducted over the next two years. Kent State Ashtabula is partnering with the Ashtabula Agricultural Research Station (AARS), a division of the Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences’ Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, to conduct the projects at Markko Vineyard in Conneaut, Ohio. “We have been offering the wine degrees for over 10 years and hav...