School of Theatre and Dance
Porthouse Theatre is thrilled to announce a special Buy One, Get One Free offer for tickets to the Saturday, July 31 performance of "Altar Boyz." You can reserve tickets for this performance online at the link below or by calling the Porthouse Box Office at 330-672-3884. In order to secure the offer, please provide the code SOUL. Reserve Tickets to Altar Boyz About Altar Boyz Running July 29 - August 15, 2021, "Altar Boyz" is directed by Porthouse's Producing Artistic Director Terri Kent, choreographed by Martín Céspedes, and music directed by Jonathan Swobod...
College of the Arts
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.
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 ...
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...
College of the Arts
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
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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.”