Feb. 1 marks the start of Black History Month. WKYC Channel 3 in Cleveland looked at the origins of Black History Month and Kent State University’s connection to the monthlong celebration. Black History Month traces its roots to 1926, when Carter G. Woodson, Ph.D., founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, established Negro History Week, celebrated during the second week of February. By 1969, Kent State’s Black United Students organization, with support from campus educators, began to advocate that the entire month of February be commemorated as Black Hi...
Wedding Work
Join us March 1 as we speak to a group of panelists who all have worked in the wedding industry, including a photographer and a musician. Find out what it’s really like when wedding venues are your workplace.
6:00 pm Visit to the exhibition As the World Weds: Global Wedding Traditions, Broadbent Gallery
6:30 pm Panel discussion with wedding professionals, Murphy Auditorium
Children's Literature in Augmented Reality
How can augmented reality be used to create innovative new forms of children's literature? In this course, students will respond to this design challenge by collaborating with a co-scheduled Design Innovation course to create an original augmented reality storytelling platform using the Unity Gaming engine. Students will draw on Alma Flor Ada and F.
Linux and Container Infrastructure
In this seminar, students will receive a hands-on introduction to aspects of Linux command line, shell scripting, cloud computing, Linux system administration, and containers.
Today's applications run on complex layers of computing infrastructure. Understanding these different components will help the students reason about and troubleshoot applications and the infrastructure underlying them.
Kent State University academic programs help students explore their own values and encourage students to live them. Justine Gallo, a 2022 Kent State fashion design graduate, has taken her personal philosophy and combined it with her degree to launch a new store in downtown Kent. Sun in Leo is a new circularity marketplace located in Acorn Alley that reuses — and responsibly sources — clothing, trinkets and accessories. The name Sun in Leo is associated with astrology and has a personal connection for Gallo, whose zodiac sign is Leo, also known as the sun sign. The store takes...