College of the Arts
The Kent State University School of Fashion's TechStyleLAB presents its annual Fashion Tech Hackthon Jan. 28 – 30, 2022. This year's Hackathon is completely virtual and will be an exciting weekend of collaboration and exploration at the intersection of fashion and technology! Now in its 9th year, this FREE event brings together university students of different majors from a wide variety of places to learn new skills and create innovative projects. With support of mentors from a variety of disciplines, universities and industries, the event fosters networking, collaboration and inn...
Kent State alumnus Mike Jackson, innovator and seasoned marketing communications executive, is joining Kent State’s School of Media and Journalism as a professional-in-residence this spring. Jackson will be teaching Advertising Strategy Development and Messaging and Communication. He will also serve as faculty adviser for Franklin Advertising, a student organization focused on advertising and strategic communication. Jackson earned his undergraduate degree in journalism from Kent State&...
Division of University Communications and Marketing
Happy New Year, Golden Flashes. Before we kick off the 2022 Spring Semester, let’s take a look back at some of our top posts from December 2021! Instagram The Kent State football team won the Mid-American Conference East Division title! The Kent State community gathered for a celebratory send off as the team headed to Detroit for the MAC Championship game. View this post on Instagram &nb...
My name is Lauren Falter, and I am a graduate student at Kent State studying Speech-Language Pathology. I recently earned my undergraduate degree from Kent State with a major in Speech Pathology and Audiology and two minors in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Special Education. I reflect positively on my time at Kent State and as a student researcher in the Swallowing Physiology and Rehabilitation Research (SPARR) Laboratory on campus. Throughout high school, I pondered careers with educational and medical focuses, and I found the field of Speech-Language Pathology to be the perfect mix...
College of Communication & Information
I took an architecture survey class upstairs – cementing my life of writing about design and the built environment. My wife of 33 years, Heidi Johnson-Wright (B.A. in English, Kent, 1982) lived next door at Prentice Hall. My wife uses a wheelchair for mobility and did then. The seeds of my activism for people with disabilities and all marginalized folks were planted right there – in the sacred ground between Taylor and Prentice, where May 4th observances take place. My first job was with the Columbus Dispatch (I zeroed in only on central Ohio where my wife was starting la...