Annual Fashion Show
Every year, the Kent State University School of Fashion’s Annual Fashion Show highlights and showcases the work and talents of Kent State Fashion students.
The Architect’s Newspaper (AN) awards a College of Architecture and Environmental Design’s (CAED) project Honorable Mention for the 2020 ‘Best of Design Awards’ in the Student Work – Group category. “The Bend” is the result of Architecture Professor Greg Stroh’s most recent Build Workshop with undergraduate students Amanda Harrer, Branden Hudak and Thomas Lowry, and graduate students Francesco Aloe, Christopher Brown, John DiAntonio and Alysa Lovich. The workshop’s initial aim was to examine the notion of a mute program reacting to technology and its architectural impact at an intimate scal...
Dr. Shannon Navy, assistant professor in science education in the School of Teaching, Learning & Curriculum Studies, was recently honored by the Publications Advisory Committee with the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST) Research Worth Reading Award for her 2020 Journal of Research in Science Teaching (JRST) lead author publication, Accessed or latent resources? Exploring new secondary science teachers’ networks of resources. This award is given annually to three papers published in JRST that are identified as having the most significant implications for science e...
College of Public Health
SPARK was featured in WKSU because preschool education is changing after COVID-19 causes enrollment to drop. Kent State University Division of Mental Health and Substance Use evaluates SPARK annually. To read the WKSU article, click here, or visit the link below: https://www.wksu.org/education/2021-04-14/preschool-education-is-changing-after-covid-19-caused-enrollment-to-drop ...
35mm: A Musical Exhibition
Join us for 35mm: A Musical Exhibition, the School of Theatre and Dance's Spring musical. This musical weaves together stories and songs inspired by the photography of Matthew Murphy, confirming that a picture is indeed worth 1,000 words. While the show is free to view, space is limited due to licensing restrictions.
Virtual Show Dates: May 7, 8 and 9 at 7 p.m. EDT
Please RSVP by May 6.
May 4 Virtual Events
In keeping with the commitment to honor and remember the events of May 4, 1970, Kent State University will hold a virtual May 4 51st Commemoration this year.
Please visit the May 4 website for a full list of events.
College of the Arts
Art is a way to contextualize the political climate and make sense of a tumultuous world. MFA candidate in painting and graduate teaching assistant, Katie Butler, has confronted the COVID-19 pandemic and related political issues in her work over the course of the past year. Her still life depictions of fish, a departure from her beginnings in abstraction, convey the anxiety and turmoil that have affected every household to some extent since the outbreak. Katie has been earning her M.F.A. during this unprecedented time, and has used art as a mechanism to explore issues in United States pol...
Information Architecture (IA), Knowledge Management (KM), and User Experience Design (UXD) alumni are involved in exciting efforts at the Information Architecture Conference (IAC) this month. Many alumni have volunteered to help run the IAC for many years, and 2021 is no different. Alex Stapleton, M.S. '20 (UXD), UX/UI Designer at Quest Diagnostics, is working on content and visual design for the conference, while Alesha Arp, M.S. '14 (IAKM and UXD), an experienced UX researcher and designer, is leading the conference’s social media efforts. Alesha also will present a workshop at the IAC wit...