Officials from Kent State University and the greater Kent and Portage County community came together Wednesday morning for the annual Bowman Breakfast, an event that has been bringing university and town officials together since 1963.  This year’s featured speaker was Lamar R. Hylton, Ph.D., Kent State’s senior vice president for Student Affairs, whose talk focused on community and how important the support of a student’s “village” is to achieving success.  Hylton began by mentioning a recent episode of one of his favorite television shows, “Abbott Elementary,” which struck ...

EHHS grad Peter Jeffy, MED ’16, joins The College of Wooster Alumni Board, where he majored in communications.   Jeffy is the project director of Kent State's McNair Scholars Program that prepares first-generation and underrepresented undergraduate students for doctoral study.   He received a master’s degree in Cultural Foundations of Education from Kent State, where he is currently pursuing a doctorate in the same area with a focus on Black male success in college.   At Wooster, Jeffy played football, was part of the Dance Company, served a...

Na’Tasha Evans, assistant professor of Health Education and Promotion in the School of Health Sciences, has been selected to serve as the 2022-2023 Strategic Planning Fellow for the Anti-Racism and Equity Institute. The Fellowship is designed to provide administrative experience to faculty members interested in leadership and decision-making activities in support of anti-racist programming and scholarship. As the Strategic Planning Fellow, Evans will meet regularly with AREI leadership to work on current initiatives, as well as idea generation and implementation. This may include program...

The School of Theatre and Dance is proud to share that Assistant Professor of Costume Design/Technology, Grace Cochran Keenan, has been awarded the Platinum Teaching Recognition Award for Costume History: New Strategies in Teaching.  For the past several years, Professor Grace Keenan has been working to expand the History of Costume & Textiles for Theatre course in the School of Theatre and Dance to decenter European narratives and expand beyond Eurocentric silhouettes. In March, 2022 Professor Keenan presented her work at the United States Institute of Technica...

On October 12, 1985, a 6-foot egg (constructed by Kent State technology students) was rolled onto the 50-yard line during halftime of Kent State's Homecoming game at Dix Stadium. Earlier in the day, the egg rode in a nest down Main Street in the Homecoming parade, on a float with Kent State cheerleaders. In a cloud of smoke at midfield, the egg hatched and Flash the Golden Eagle (eaglet) emerged. "Baby Flash" is shown here, shortly after hatching, with an actual golden eagle, also named Flash, who appeared at select Kent State athletic events until the mid-90s....

Congratulations to Dr. Veronica Dexheimer for her recent publication in Physical Review Letters and editor's suggestion in Physical Review C.   In her first paper, Dr. Dexheimer and collaborators demonstrated a new way to determine the equation of state that describes the interior of neutron stars by using data extracted from LIGO and Virgo detections of the gravitational waves produced by neutron star mergers. These gravitational waves encode the neutron stars’ tidal deformability, a measure of how much the stars deform before merging, which is associated with their ...

A familar figure from the Office of the President was on Risman Plaza last week to get runners "all shook up" and ready to begin the Rainbow Run 5K. The money raised by runners goes toward Kent State's LGBTQ+ Emergency Fund, which helps Kent State students in crisis.  To learn more about the LGBTQ+ Emergency Fund, and to donate, visit: https://www.kent.edu/lgbtq/financial-support.   ...