YOUTH & PEACEBUILDING IN NORTHERN IRELAND: 25 YEARS AFTER THE BELFAST/GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT   Tuesday, May 2, 2023 - 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm McGilvrey Hall 417   Twenty-five years ago, the parties to a then 30-year long conflict known as “the Troubles” finally agreed to put down their arms and to replace the ArmaLite with the ballot box. This agreement, signed by all the parties to the conflict was supported by large percentages of both the Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland, many of whom expressed the feelings that ‘they owed it to future genera...

The Akron Press Club, in conjunction with the John S. Knight Memorial Journalism Fund Corp., hosted a celebration April 28, 2023, to present the 2023 John S. Knight Scholars. The two groups have been awarding scholarships together since 1985. Since its founding, the John S. Knight Journalism Memorial Fund has awarded a total of $682,000 in scholarships to aspiring students. The John S. Knight Memorial Journalism Fund annually awards scholarships to outstanding university students studying journalism, communication and public relations. This year, eight of the 10 scholarship recipients were ...

More than 560 employees joined Kent State University President Todd Diacon for his latest edition of “Talking With Todd,” a live chat he conducts from his office. The topic of the May 1 talk focused on Ohio Senate Bill 83 (or House Bill 151) and the proposed Ohio state budget for higher education. “I want to begin today with a reminder of our core values and who we are as an institution,” Diacon said. “So, I’ve said ever since my inauguration in 2019 that we are a university not just for the fortunate few but for the meritorious many. We have a long history of access at Kent State U...

What are the main factors that either inhibit or promote growth in trees? Traditionally, scientists primarily looked at temperature and precipitation. However, Cameron C. Lee, Ph.D., assistant professor of Geography at Kent State University, and the members of his ClimRISE Lab take a different approach to biometeorological research.They believe that living organisms are not just impacted by temperature, or just by humidity, or just by wind, but rather by the combined impacts of all of these things simultaneously. To examine these relationships, they use air masses, which are atmospheric b...