Dear Members of the Kent State Community: Earlier this week, we invited members of the Kent State University community to open presentations on the results of our campus climate study. I offer sincere gratitude to everyone who was able to make attending or viewing one of these presentations a priority within your very busy schedules. The levels of participation at these presentations reflect our community's commitment to fostering a welcoming and inclusive environment for all — the foundation of student, faculty and staff success and satisfaction. It has been nearly 20 years since our la...

On Thursday, Feb. 2, Kent State University at Trumbull and its Faculty Lecture Series present “Shakespeare, Politics and the Revival of Empathy” by Dr. Peter Byrne, Kent State University at Trumbull Associate Professor of English. This is the tenth year Byrne will write the script for the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s annual “Will on the Hill” benefit in Washington D.C. The performance brings together volunteers from the government (mostly members of Congress, both the House and the Senate) as well as national media, lobbyists and corporate sponsors to perform an original one-performance pl...

Technology merges with fashion at 2017 hackathon The 2017 Fashion/Tech Hackathon, hosted by the Fashion School at Kent State University, will take place Jan. 27-29. Now in its fourth year, the hackathon is a cross-curricular event allowing teams of student participants to create and innovate within the realm of wearable technology. It is presented in partnership with the Fashion School’s TechStyleLAB and the university’s LaunchNET entrepreneurial initiative.      Last year, the event attracted 158 attendees representing 17 total institutions. Many were first-time...

We encourage you to present your research on March 21, 2017 at the Undergraduate Symposium on Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity. Abstracts are due by February 1 -details at http://www.kent.edu/ugresearch/symposium-details ...

Torsten Hegmann, Ph.D., a chemical physics professor and Ohio Research Scholar in Kent State University’s Liquid Crystal Institute®, in the College of Arts and Sciences, was recently named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, one of the top publishing societies in chemistry worldwide. “It was a tremendous honor being included in the list of Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry,” Hegmann said. “The list of admitted Fellows every year contains names of very innovative, leading chemists – many of whom I am looking up to as I pursue my own research. To appear among them is incredibl...