Kent State University will become a smoke-free, tobacco-free campus beginning July 1. The new policy is part of the university’s healthy campus initiative, Kent State of Wellness. For those desiring to quit, Kent State provides an abundance of cessation resources for students, faculty and staff to help them quit smoking. According to the American Lung Association, the first seven to 10 days are the toughest and most smokers who return to smoking do so within the first three months, so it’s a vital time to support their efforts during that time. “As a university, we feel it’s...

Music School Central has named Kent State University’s Hugh A. Glauser School of Music a top 10 “Hidden Gem” music school in the United States for 2017. Music Central is a website that provides information to students about college music programs, audition and admissions advice, as well as career opportunities in the music industry. The honor is the most recent awarded to Kent State’s School of Music for its high-quality educational programs. “The Hugh A. Glauser School of Music is dedicated to providing students with a first-rate learning experience in a family environment, and it is always...

Nominations for Kent State University’s Distinguished Teaching Awards will be accepted through June 30. The awards, sponsored by the Kent State University Alumni Association, are an opportunity for members of the Kent State community to honor exceptional faculty members. The Distinguished Teaching Award is the university’s most prestigious honor in teaching awarded to full-time, tenure-track faculty. The award is presented annually to three full-time faculty members who demonstrate extraordinary teaching in the classroom and a devotion to touching the lives of students. Qualified nom...

Freshmen at McKinley High School in Canton now have a chance to enroll in a new program that, when completed, will guarantee their admission into a local four-year university and significant college financial help when they are graduated from high school. The Bulldog Flash Academic Institute is a new partnership between Kent State University at Stark and Canton McKinley Senior High School that plans to usher approximately 25 McKinley freshmen each year through the process of becoming college ready. These students would then be awarded with direct admission to Kent State Stark and renewab...

Originally from Tehran, Iran, Pooyan Mirjalili is currently a junior biology pre-med major at Kent State University. He was 19 when he first enrolled at Kent State and he says his choice to come here was an easy one. When first searching for schools, he looked to his friends and family for suggestions. In Tehran, he had several acquaintances who had previously studied at Kent State and each had nothing but great things to say about the university. Along with those recommendations, Pooyan was also please to learn that Kent State tuition also fit within his budget. But his final decisi...

Commencement happens Saturday, May 13 at Packard Music Hall (Warren, OH) Kent State University at Trumbull proudly announces Congressman Tim Ryan as its 2017 Spring Commencement speaker. Close to 100 of the more than 200 students graduating this spring will participate in the ceremony, which will be held Saturday, May 13 at 6:00 p.m. in Packard Music Hall, 1703 Mahoning Ave. in Warren. Tim Ryan is a relentless advocate for working families in Ohio's 13th District. He was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002 and was sworn in on January 3, 2003. Successfully reelected...

This weekend the Wick Poetry Center will travel to Washington D.C. to participate in the March for Science. Partnering with poet and environmental spokesperson Jane Hirshfield, the Wick Poetry Center will host a series of workshops at the Teach-In on the National Mall and install an exhibit of twenty-three seven-foot banners of poems about science curated by Jane Hirshfield.  
 
For a full schedule of workshop offerings visit science.travelingstanzas.com/events  Ways to Get Involved If you can’t make it to Washington D.C., you can still participate in the #PoetsforScience e...

Kent State University junior Rachel Stypinski won the all-around title with a 39.500 to lead the Golden Flashes at the 2017 Mid-American Conference (MAC) Gymnastics Championships held March 18 at the Stroh Center in Bowling Green, Ohio. Kent State posted a 194.850 team score to finish sixth. Stypinski’s all-around score ties the program record at the conference championship meet that was set by Marie Case in 2014 and ranks sixth overall. Stypinski also won the beam title and finished in a six-way tie for first on bars. Her third 9.950 of the season set a program MAC Champi...

FlashFest 2017 hosted an array of musical performances, headlined by rappers Sammy Adams and Rae Sremmurd. This annual celebration, which occurs at the end of the spring semester, is organized and presented by Kent State’s Undergraduate Student Government.     ...