During Kent State University's School of Fashion Annual Fashion Week, fashion students presented 39 original looks in a 3D Virtual Fashion Show at the Design Innovation Hub's Blank Lab. This event shows what fashion education looks like when digital tools are treated not as a supplement to the curriculum, but as its foundation.Since Fall 2024, Kent State's fashion program has used VStitcher by Browzwear as its exclusive digital patternmaking platform. Every garment in the 3D Virtual Fashion Show was developed entirely within the software with no restrictions on garment type, resulting in a div...

The Kent Blossom Music Festival, with an over-five-decades-long legacy, returns to Kent State for its 58th season, running from June 21 through July 26. As the only partnership of its kind between a major American orchestra and a public university, it partners with The Cleveland Orchestra to provide talented young artists with the unique opportunity to grow their skill sets and perform side by side with their mentors in a professional setting. ...

 David H. Smith Conservation Research FellowshipKent State University Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate student Prashant Ghimire has been selected for the highly competitive David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship, one of the nation’s premier postdoctoral programs supporting early-career leaders in conservation science. Ghimire will begin the fellowship following his graduation from Kent State University in August 2026.Ghimire’s project “Echoes from the Prairie: Developing Conservation Solutions for Declining Grassland Birds in North America” will be conducted at Colorado ...