Zan, Zendegi, Azadi. Women, Life, Freedom.Two Iranian-born women who are also members of the Kent State community shared this unifying slogan in Farsi and English with students, faculty, staff and others Wednesday night after discussing the uprising in Iran and the history that brought the country to this point.A standing-room-only crowd gathered to hear Kent State alumna Mahtab Tehrani, Ph.D., and first-year student Goli Kavoosi, discuss how the denial of human rights in Iran impacts us all and what tangible actions Americans can take to help.“This is not a protest anymore, it is a ...
Vaneet Kaur, Ph.D., assistant professor of Management and Information Systems at Kent State University’s Stark Campus, recently was featured in The Repository, a Canton, Ohio, newspaper, for her work on promoting business ideas to help the local economy. Kaur prepared members of her upper-division business consulting and practicum class to compete in Stark Tank 2022, an event sponsored by the Stark Education Partnership and modeled after the television show “Shark Tank,” in which entrepreneurs present their business proposals to a team of professionals. In Stark Tank...
This November, members of the Kent State University community joined together to shine their light on philanthropy. During the November campaign, Kent State’s Giving Tuesday raised $3.6 million, marking the sixth year it has brought in more than $1 million to support scholarships and programs across Kent State’s eight-campus system. This included $1.7 million from legacy gifts, $160,000 from Kent State University Foundation matching gifts and $1.7 million from outright gifts and matches.{"preview_thumbnail":"/s3/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/jZJu9yk85tE.jpg?i...
Ever visit a restaurant or a coffee shop whose environment just simply made you feel... home?! Well, that's exactly how Field Hockey Player Katie Wuerstle felt during her first visit to Kent State. ...
On chilly, gray days like today, people can find a place that's warm and green in the greenhouse behind Cunningham Hall on the Kent Campus The Herrick Conservatory is home to a large and diverse selection of plants, plus some fish and a couple of turtles. Highlights of the collection include a 30-year-old rubber tree, a strawberry guava tree, banana trees, flowering plants and vegetables, succulents, tropical varieties and even carnivorous plants. The conservatory is managed by Melissa Davis (pictured), horticultural facilities director. It i...
Entrepreneurship major Audrey Ernst's love of baking and a microgrant have helped her baking business take shape. ...
“My mom’s an art teacher,” is how Kent State University student David Brondfield introduced himself to cartoonist Tom Batiuk, a Kent State alum and creator of the “Funky Winkerbean” and “Crankshaft” comic strips. “Art teacher is a great job,” replied Batiuk, who worked as a junior high art teacher in Elyria, Ohio, before his career as a cartoonist took off. Brondfield, a junior from Mayfield, Ohio, majoring in computer information systems, was the first in line to get an autograph from Batiuk, who was at the University Bookstore on the Kent Campus Wednesday signing copies of ...
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We hope all of our Golden Flashes had a fantastic and safe Halloween! This spooky season has had a lot of fall-themed events paired with some fun social media content! Let's take a look at our top-performing posts from this October. Instagram Our top Instagram post was a Reel that featured our Golden Flashes students and what they were listening to as they made their way around Kent Campus. This post also featured a spotify playlist of all the songs our Flashes are listening to! View this post on ...
Current and former faculty and alumni have featured art pieces in the new exhibit Now and Then: Seven Decades of Kent State Ceramics. The exhibit focuses on former faculty, notable alumni and a juried selection of alumni from the 70-year history of the Kent State Ceramics Program. You can visit the event at Kent State University’s Downtown Gallery, 141 E. Main St., Kent, Ohio. The exhibit will be on display until Jan. 14 and then will move to Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati to be presented at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference. The entries ...
