More than 300 short films will be featured at this year’s Short. Sweet. Film Fest., which takes place Feb. 28-March 3 at Atlas Cinemas Shaker in Cleveland, Ohio. Among the submissions to be featured in this year’s festival will be two films from Kent State University digital media production students – “Heart & Sol,” directed by Cassidy DeVol and Laura McCann, and “Powerball” directed by Nick Thaman and Natalie Gilles and produced by Anthony Furiga and Austin Monte.Scott Hallgren, associate professor of digital media production in Kent State’s School of Media and Journalism, has been invol...

With an interest in globalization expanding across the workforce, Kent State University recognizes the increasing value of being proficient in a second language.  Career Exploration and Development and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages Studies hosted the “Leveraging Second Language Skills in the Professional World" panel discussion on Feb. 14 during I Heart Travel Week to reinforce how students can use a second language to propel themselves into and throughout the professional world.  {"preview_thumbnail":"/s3/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumb...

Dialogue on Hatred: A Peacebuilder's PerspectiveTatsushi Arai, Ph.D.February 22, 20244:00pmVirtualRegister NowJoin us February 22nd at 4pm for the next program in the Dialogue and Difference program series, a joint project of he Division of People, Culture and Belonging and the School of Peace and Conflict Studies.Campus life in the United States is a microcosm of identity-based differences, capable of providing a promising ground for dialogue and mutual learning. However, these differences can also become a basis for identity-based discrimination, stereotyping, and hatred when members of the ...

Molly Merryman, Ph.D., associate professor in Kent State University’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies, received a double dose of prestige recently when she was invited to speak at both the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford in England in the same week.Neil Cooper, director of the School of Peace and Conflict Studies, and a U.K. native, said being invited to speak at both prestigious British universities is a great honor.“To be invited to speak at one of them is quite an honor, but to speak at two in the space of a week or two is quite remarkable,” Cooper said.Merryman sa...