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A program of Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative that offers design and build experiences for middle and high school students is in the spotlight for its new effort to expand racial and ethnic diversity in the design fields. The program, Making Our Own Space (MOOS), which introduces youth to opportunities in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture, was featured on WEWS Channel 5 news, highlighting the national arts grant the program recently received. Since 2015, MOOS has been helping educate youth on design fun...
When Kent State student Franck Steve Guepjop Fotso was in high school in Cameroon, Africa, he and his family looked at colleges in the U.S. that had great engineering programs but found them to be quite expensive. That all changed when Guepjop Fotso ran across information about Kent State’s College of Aeronautics and Engineering (CAE). The university had an impressive engineering curriculum, which catered to his career aspirations and had a robust program for international students, all at an affordable price that would fit into his family's budget. Guepjop Fotso, now in ...
“Emotion can be fuel. It was fuel for my father in the movement,” said Bernice King, daughter of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. “Nonviolence really was a way to channel the anger, the hurt and the pain into something that could bring about a constructive outcome. That's one of the most important things my parents taught me.” Bernice King shared insights into racism in America today and her father’s legacy as keynote speaker of Kent State's annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. King’s visit to campus also kicked off the university's programming for its celebrat...
Freshman Guard Dionna Gray's journey from her home in West Virginia to the Golden Flashes began as a teenager when she told her father she wanted to do something other than basketball. The deal that followed made all the difference. ...
Gus Holman knows a thing or two about mushrooms. First, he knows that morel mushrooms are prized finds by those who hunt and gather them. Secondly, he knows that these mushrooms are expensive for others to purchase. And, he knows that morels are not easy to grow outside of their natural environment. Knowing these three basic facts helped lead him to the Kent State Salem Campus and, ultimately, an extensive research project involving morel mushrooms. “My interest in studying mushrooms started with a conversation with my father,” Holman said. “While building my parents a greenhouse, my ...
Research conducted by Kent State and Illinois State faculty found that a COVID-19 diagnosis lowered same-semester GPA for students at a state university. ...
The College of Arts and Sciences is proud to call Thai Nguyen one of our top students. He is currently a junior pursuing a degree in biology with a concentration in pre-medical studies. His “Three-Minute Thesis” presentation on “The Potential of Developed Nanoparticles to Target Glioblastoma Cancer Stem Cells” won first place in the Student Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program this past fall. SURE is an eight-week summer program that allows undergraduate students to participate in faculty-supervised research in their field of interest. Nguyen worked alongside Diana Goncal...
After graduating from the Salem Campus radiologic technology program in 2007, Tabitha Lockhart worked fulltime as a mobile X-ray technologist traveling throughout Ohio. At the same time, she took classes through Kent State and earned her bachelor’s degree in public health in 2012. ...