Commencement ceremonies were held May 12 for the Kent State Columbiana County campuses for Summer 2022, Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 graduates earning associate and baccalaureate degrees. Baccalaureate Honors: Summa Cum Laude (Highest Honors): Rachel Bright Kendra DeWitt Ava Delsignore Lucas Duncan Zaviona Fountain Hannah Harmon Katlyn Lancaster Abbey Murawsk Cheryl Wiley Katerina Wright Magna Cum Laude (High Honors): Gabrielle Arquilla Allyson Buchert Julia Chappelear Mackenzie Chitwood Militca Denee Brooke Denning Stephanie Dodrill Lily Fairbanks Brooke...
School of Theatre and Dance
Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Porthouse Theatre, Kent State University’s outdoor, summer theatre located on the grounds of Blossom Music Center, invites you to LOL all summer long as it presents its 55th season during the summer of 2023 with "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," "The Marvelous Wonderettes" and "The Prom." This season we welcome our newest Porthouse Theatre executive producer, Tony Hardin. Hardin also serves as the director of the School of Theatre and Dance at Kent State University. Prior to joining Kent State, he served as an associate professor and chair of ...
When Essence Edmonds took the Kent State Trumbull Commencement stage Friday night as the keynote student speaker, she shared with the Class of 2023 how she took full advantage of her time at Kent State Trumbull while earning her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. Besides her rigorous studies, Edmonds, a 2017 Warren G. Harding High School graduate, is the first student from the campus' Building Black Leaders (BBL) program to graduate. She also participated on the cross-country team, as well the Student Nurses Association and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored ...
Where & When
Materials Day took place in the lower level -- in room 069 -- of the Integrated Science Building on Kent State University's Kent Campus. The street address is 1175 Lefton Esplanade, Kent, Ohio.
Parking locations near the building are noted below with red markers. Please use the Summit Street entrance indicated by the yellow arrow on the map below to enter the building.
College of the Arts
KENT, Ohio – The School of Art Collection and Galleries at Kent State University is pleased to announce a new exhibition, the Kent Blossom Art Intensives Exhibition. Featuring the work of visiting artists and resident faculty working in ceramics, glass, painting, and textiles. The Kent Blossom Art Intensives Exhibition will be on display May 17 – June 9, 2023, at the CVA Gallery located in the Center for the Visual Arts, 325 Terrace Drive, Kent, Ohio. There will be a reception on Friday, May 26 from 4-6 p.m. Featured artists include by media: ceramics: Resident Faculty, Peter C...
The latest exhibit in the DI HUB might make you a bit emotional. The Stories Connecting Generations exhibit features 23 projects from the namesake class that pairs sociology and visual communication design students with an older adult partner, usually a resident of an area senior center, who they build a relationship with throughout the semester. At the end, they are tasked with transforming the life experiences of their partner into a visual design. “We talked early on that it's almost impossible to represent a person's entire life,” said Jessica Barness, professor in the School of Visu...
A literature professor from Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea, is wrapping up a year as a visiting scholar at Kent State University with hopes of creating an exchange program between the two schools based on their historic campus tragedies. Before he leaves the Kent Campus at the end of June, Yeonmin Kim, Ph.D., ’13, hopes to have plans in place for a continued exchange of students between the two universities, to further the understanding and legacies of May 4, 1970, at Kent State and May 18, 1980, at Chonnam. On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened ...
