The recent death of one of the remaining members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II has a Kent State University associate professor recalling the vital role the female pilots played during the war. “World War II was a total war,” said Associate Professor Molly Merryman, Ph.D., the author of “Clipped Wings: The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II.” “And what that meant was that all men, women, children, citizens needed to have a war role,” Merryman told The Washington Post in the obituary for Dorothy Olsen, 103, of University Place, O...
Note: Gretchen Hoak is a former television reporter/anchor and current assistant professor of journalism in Kent State University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Her research survey, “Are We Teaching Trauma?”, focused on how universities prepare young journalists for the trauma they may endure in covering violence. Kent State Today asked Hoak to share her thoughts on the impact the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton will have on the reporters assigned to cover these events. “It’s awful, y’all. Barely hanging on. Our newsroom is command centra...
Join five KSU Fashion School faculty who will share their inspiration and process behind their designs for the exhibition that marks the 50th commemoration of May 4th. Free for Students and with General Admission.
The Undergraduate Student Government hosts public meetings every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month to allow the student body to express their opinions and view the work of their government.
This course will provide fact-based information about the events leading up to, during and in the aftermath of the May 4, 1970 shootings. Participants are encouraged to draw their own conclusions from the facts as they participate in the discussion of the class materials.
- Guest discussant Professor Idris Kabir Syed, Department of Pan-African Studies
- Guest discussant Assistant Director Lori Boes, May 4 Visitors Center
A three-part series to be held October 16, 23 and 30, 2019.
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The Kent State University Wick Poetry Center’s “Traveling Stanzas” project, part of its effort to facilitate a global conversation that enhances person to person communication, arrives at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration this fall. On Nov. 10, KSU will host a reception for the exhibit, Sisters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy to New York, New York, created by the Opera di Santa Croce in Florence in collaboration with faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences who have pioneered unique visualization technologies and KSU’s Design Innovation Initiative. The Wick Poetry Center...