Did you know that if you are driving and have a passenger, are eating or drinking and send a text, your chances of crashing increase by 1,139 percent? April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and Kent State University Police Services has brought the Wait2TXT campaign to the Kent Campus. This campaign targets both distracted driving and distracted walking to raise awareness and foster safe driving behaviors on campus, in Kent and beyond. An event earlier this month at the Kent Student Center brought together representatives from Kent State Police Services, Kent City Police Depart...

Join other Golden Flashes for the 10th annual Alumni Day of Service on April 21. To sign up for one of the service sites or to create your own, visit www.ksualumni.org/FlashesGiveBack.     ...

Clients who make use of veterinary services may soon be meeting with registered veterinary nurses instead of registered veterinary technicians if a bill currently before the Ohio House of Representatives is passed. For some veterinary technology professionals, that change in title does make a difference. Faculty members from Kent State University at Tuscarawas and Kent State University at Trumbull recently made the approximately two-hour trip to the Ohio House of Representatives in Columbus to testify in support of a bill that impacts their profession. Kingsly Berlin, lecturer in the vet...

Through a series of company-building steps, programs and funding, Remesh, what started as the idea of a Kent State University student, has become a star in the Northeast Ohio tech-startup world. The company recently raised $10 million from a Series A funding round led by General Catalyst with participation from seed-round lead investor LionBird Ventures.   Andrew Konya, co-founder of Remesh and Kent State alumnus, who received his bachelor’s degree in physics in 2010, began his entrepreneurial journey as a Kent State graduate student in 2013 by developing algorithms to facilitate co...

Please click HERE to visit our page for current updates regarding the upcoming Alumni Reunion to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Our Ph.D. Program! ...

Save the Date! June 1 - 3, 2018 Department of Psychological Sciences Alumni Reunion to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Our Ph.D. Program       Celebration will begin at 5pm on Friday, June 1st and conclude at Noon on Sunday, June 3rd at the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center in our beautiful downtown Kent. See schedule of events HERE     Please visit our Alumni Reunion Campus 5K Walk/Run Race and Kids' Fun Run page for more information and to register.   Hotel Reservations: Holiday Inn Express &am...