JaMeeka Holloway

The School of Theatre and Dance is thrilled to welcome theatre artist JaMeeka Holloway as the 2021-2022 Roe Green Visiting Director. Holloway will join the School as a visiting director-in-residence in the Spring of 2022 to direct a reimagined production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. About the Roe Green Visiting Director Series The Roe Green Visiting Director Series was established in 2003 by Kent State alumna and Cleveland-based philanthropist Roe Green. An initial $25,000 donation was repeated annually until 2018 when Ms. Green endowed the Series with a $2....

BHRI Seminar Series

 

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The mission of the Brain Health Research Institute is to foster and support collaborative research leading to innovative discoveries about the brain that ultimately improve the health of our communities and beyond.

Kristina Spangler

Our Education Abroad program was featured in the national news in Italy to represent the return of students to Florence, and Italy in general, following Covid 19 shutdowns.   Kent State offers programs in Florence during the Spring and Fall semesters. Students take a minimum of 12 credits. There is also a Florence Summer Institute in June. The news segment (in Italian) is a short insight into our students' life in Florence during our Summer Institute Program! https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1949162355243263 -- source: Rai/TGR Toscana “It’s nice to have ...

Biology students participate in Brain Day 5K 2021

  The Kent State University Biology Graduate Student Council (BGSC), in collaboration with the Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI), celebrated World Brain Day 2021 by hosting the First Annual Kent Brain Day 5K. Over 40 runners/walkers across the United States participated in the asynchronous 5K which occurred during the week of July 18 – 24, 2021. The theme of this year's July 22nd World Brain Day was “Stop MS (Multiple Sclerosis)”. Proceeds benefited the Ohio Buckeye Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the newly created KSU BGSC Scholarship Fund. The BGSC is a...

Season Announcement

Kent, OH – After an 18-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, live performances will return to Kent State’s School of Theatre and Dance when the 2021-2022 mainstage season commences in October 2021.  As part of the season, the School of Theatre and Dance will welcome professional theatre artist JaMeeka Holloway as the 2021-2022 Roe Green Visiting Director. Holloway will direct the season’s closing production, William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. “The School is honored to offer a season of new works, reimagined classics and diverse stories from artists and collaborators ...

Making Meaning of May 4 with Dr. Laura Davis

POSTED: Jul. 28, 2021

On July 6, 2021, an NPR newscaster asked Miami-Dade mayor Daniella Levine Cava why she had so often publicly praised journalists for their stories about those who had been lost or not yet found in the collapse of Champlain Tower South in Surfside, Florida. “What happened was so horrific, so unexpected, and could have been prevented,” the mayor said. “We have to pay homage to those lives.”

Brooke Leonelli during a competition

As a Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology at Kent State University, along with being a Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) Intern, one would assume that Brooke Leonelli has enough on her plate. You can add participating in weightlifting competitions. Leonelli had always been active growing up, whether participating in dance, cheerleading, or running cross country. After she stopped running, Leonelli needed something to fill the void. She quickly turned to CrossFit, a craze that swept the nation in 2013, and soon fell in love with it and promptly began pushing herself e...

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