When Kent State's Golden Flashes football team played Bowling Green's Falcons in October at Dix Stadium, they brought a secret weapon: an orange cat named Hyperion - "Hype" for short. "Hype" was Kent State's representative in a cat-to-cat match up with "Pudge," another orange cat that has received a lot of attention on the web as Bowling Green's athletic mascot and feline good luck charm. However, Hype's mojo won the day as Kent State beat Bowling Green 24-21.   After the winter storm in January, Hype's human companion, Mahli Mechenbier J.D., a senior lecturer at Ken...

Andy Wyatt, Ph.D., received his undergraduate degree in English from Kent State in 2016, and is now the Assistant Director of Student Affairs at the Kent State Florence Center in Italy. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2023, and his research focused on modern Italian literature and intellectual history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Andy had the opportunity to study abroad in the Kent State Florence Semester program as an undergraduate, and the experience inspired him to pursue a career in Italy. He felt a connection to KSU Florence especially, because of how influe...

Uffner & Liu is pleased to present "Toki-No-Wa ; Harmony of Time," an exhibition bringing together new sculptures by contemporary Japanese ceramicist Miwa Neishi (b. 1990, Tokyo, Japan) in conversation with historical works by Toshiko Takaezu (b. 1922, Pepeekeo, Hawaii - d. 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii), foregrounding an intergenerational dialogue rooted in material devotion, ritualized making and the expansive possibilities of ceramic form.Born in Hawaiʻi to Japanese immigrant parents in 1922, Takaezu emerged as one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American art, playing a pi...

How do animals cope when oxygen levels suddenly drop? That question is at the center of research led by Sangeet Lamichhaney, Ph.D., associate professor and MA coordinator in the Department of Biological Sciences, whose team has assembled the first complete genome of the black redstart, a small mountain bird that regularly travels between high and low elevations. The work, recently published in Nature Scientific Data, provides a foundational resource for studying how species respond genetically to rapid environmental change....

A future in entrepreneurship may sound daunting to some, but at Kent State, students are prepared to start successful businesses with the help of LaunchNET.The Marty Erbaugh i3 Lab, LaunchNET’s summer accelerator program, has been offered to students since 2022. Participants are paid to work on their business and are provided a collaborative experience with fellow student entrepreneurs.“We have specific projects,” said Zach Mikrut, Director of LaunchNET Kent State, “ranging from business model canvas work, to prototyping, to customer interviews.” LaunchNET caters to what the students need, so ...