Kent State University and the Opera di Santa Croce in Florence, Italy, will celebrate a collaborative partnership around the creation of “Sisters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy, to New York, New York,” an exhibition opening on Oct. 17, 2019, and running through April 26, 2020, at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island in New York.  The exhibition features two distinct sculptural personifications of liberty: New York City’s Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World and Florence’s Liberty of Poetry. Visitors to the exhibition will participate in a multimedia exp...

Golden Flashes, we all have different reasons why we love Kent State. We wanted to hear about some of the things you love most about Kent State, so we created a fun Instagram story in August. We shared polls on our Instagram story and you chose some of your favorite things about the university. Here are the results!   Favorite Kent State furry friend?   Black Squirrel or Flash​​​       Favorite sporting complex to catch a game?  Dix Stadium or MAC Center                 ​​​​​​​ Favorite also-off-...

Annie (Phuong) Tran is living her dream at Kent State University at Tuscarawas. An engineering technology student, Annie and her mother, Nhung Quan, are from Vietnam and have been in the states for the past five years. While completing an internship with the Kent State Tuscarawas Makerspace in the Academic Learning Commons for her associate degree in computer science at Columbus State last year, Tran soon realized that she had found a new home and transferred to the Tuscarawas Campus.   “We are so excited to have Annie transfer to the Tuscarawas Campus,” said Cherie Bronkar, Kent St...

Kent State University’s Honors College is a place of enrichment, learning, and fun for an ever-growing number of students.   This year, the number of Honors College freshmen reached a new record, totaling 572 students. In addition to Stopher and Johnson Halls, which house the administrative offices of the Honors College as well as provide housing and community to hundreds of honors students, the Honors Living-Learning Community has expanded to include Centennial Court B as of fall 2019. Already, the Honors College class of 2023 demonstrates a great deal of academic potential: their ...

While the daily news is full of tumultuous conversations about Russia and China, Kent State University has been helping some area high school students learn to converse in Russian and Chinese to facilitate greater global understanding and a less contentious tomorrow. Kent State’s Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences received federal funding for the 12th consecutive year to host the fully immersive STARTALK Summer Foreign Language Academy this past summer. Twenty students from Northeast Ohio learned Russian or Chinese language a...

Love, loss and hope. These are three critical elements Maria Jacobs brings – along with her considerable professional experience – to the Kent State University community. Jacobs is a part-time instructor in the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music and a nationally known jazz singer. “Every day that I teach, I learn a tremendous amount,” Jacobs said. “Students come in with ideas and goals for not only their voices, but also knowledge of the ‘Great American Songbook’ and music theory. It brings me immeasurable joy to see their faces light up when they love a song I introduce for the first time.” Ja...