Nearly 40 students from the Kent State Tuscarawas, Stark and Kent campuses participated in Kent State’s first site for the Global Game Jam (GGJ) this past weekend, from Jan. 25 – 27. GGJ is a worldwide game-making event where creators gather at 800+ sites around the world and make games based on a single theme over a 48-hour period. Kent State’s GGJ site was held at the Tuscarawas regional campus and organized through a collaboration between the Kent State Modeling, Animation and Game Creation (MAGC) program and the Animation and Game Creation Club. The site hosted students from Kent State...

One of the highlights of 2018 was commemorating the 15 Year Anniversary of the Reinberger Children’s Library Center and the 10 Year Anniversary of the Marantz Picturebook Collection. Guests gathered on the Kent State campus in the Student Center Ballroom at the start of November to learn more about this incredible collection and to hear from noted artists and authors in the field.   As the snow fell softly outside the Kent State Library, these anniversary milestones were celebrated with three distinguished children’s book illustrators including Will Hillenbrand, author of “Snowman’s Story...