By Amanda KnauerKent State University participated in its second Game Day Recycling Challenge on Tuesday, Nov. 4, and increased the amount it recycled per person since last year's challenge. The challenge, which promotes waste reduction and recycling at university football games all over the country, awards the school with the most recycled goods. Waste that can be recycled includes cans, cardboard and plastics. Melanie Knowles, sustainability manager at Kent State's Facilities Planning and Operations, says even though the attendance was relatively low this year, the event was still ...

The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, Dec. 3. The Board will convene at 2 p.m. in the George Urban Board of Trustees Conference Room, which is located on the second floor of the Kent Campus Library. Trustees will retire into executive session at 8 a.m. to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.”   Trustees will meet as a Committee of the Whole from 8:45-10:20 a.m. This will be followed by Board standing committee meetings as follows: Academic Excellence and Student Success Committee – 10:...

Dr. Patrick Coy, Director of Kent State's Center for Applied Conflict Management, was interviewed by WAKR about what positive, constructive conflict management steps can now be taken in Ferguson, Missouri, after a grand jury failed to return an indictment in the Michael Brown shooting.   ...

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