body.node-type-article .media-element-container img { margin: 0 !important; } While Kent State University faculty, staff, students and alumni are working and learning from home, they can show their #FlashesForever spirit during video calls. Two of the video conferencing software platforms being used today are Zoom and Teams, both of which offer users the chance to use their own custom backgrounds using their own photos. The people who miss the tallest building in Portage County, the Student Green or any of their favorite places on campus can feel free to download and use the following ...

My Dearest Friends and Subscribers, I can’t imagine a summer without you. More importantly, I can’t comprehend a world without you and that is why we are cancelling the Porthouse Theatre 2020 season. It breaks my heart to share this news as you all mean so much to me. When I say, at each curtain speech, that “YOU complete our work and the Porthouse family,” I mean it! However much I love Porthouse Theatre, Kent State University, and the United States of America, I consider myself, first and foremost, a citizen of the world. You are my brothers and sisters and it is our combined voices th...

Keeping with our April focus on gratitude, the Employee Wellness Office brings you our April 10 webinar, Gratitude & Stress Relief. Our presenter will be Bill Frankel. Bill is a licensed counselor, executive coach, and principal of Be Well Solutions. As humans, we often don’t take the time to appreciate the good in our lives. You may be asking, with our current pandemic, should we still feel grateful even when circumstances feel grim? The answer is YES – not only will a grateful attitude help – it is essential. It is precisely under crisis conditions when we have the most to gain b...

For the fourth consecutive year, Kent State will participate in the Gratitude Graffiti Project, a practice of purposeful reflection and appreciation expressed through interactive art. Participants are no longer "spectators" of art -- they are fully engaged in creating the art that expresses their gratitude. Through art, individuals can contemplate, create, rejuvenate, and awaken a completely new perspective on how to look at how great life can be. For the past three years, you likely saw poster boards filled of colorful post-it notes with sentiments of gratitude and window displays ref...

The words “biology” and “design” might not typically intertwine; however, Kent State University’s Biodesign Challenge course was created to challenge the idea that the two separate disciplines could not collaborate. The course was a collaboration between Design Innovation and Environmental Science and Design Research Initiative (ESDRI), and was taught by School of Fashion associate professor Margarita Benitez,  Architecture associate professor Diane Davis-Sikora and Biology professor Chris Blackwood.  During the fall of 2019, two dozen students from seven different major...

  The Kent State Columbiana County campuses wasted no time reaching out to the Salem and East Liverpool communities to share resources during this COVID-19 crisis. Within days of shutting the doors on each campus, staff began suggesting ways to donate items to local healthcare providers and other agencies rather than have the items locked away. The nursing, PTA and OTA programs from the East Liverpool Campus boxed up and donated masks, gowns and gloves that were taken to East Liverpool City Hospital. Patient beds are also marked to be loaned out if needed.   At the beginnin...