International student-athletes have quite a bit to become accustomed to once they arrive at Kent State University and begin their college careers.In addition to adjusting to rigorous academic and athletic training, they must become acclimated to a new culture, customs and food. Josh Smith, a punter for the Kent State Golden Flashes football team, also had to contend with a bout of homesickness that kicked in after traveling nearly 10,000 miles from Narre Warren, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, to Kent State.Smith, who was 18 at the time, remembers leaning on his coaches at Kent State wh...

 Architectural Studies graduate and national prize-winning essayist Gealese Peebles is off to the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University to pursue a Master of Landscape Architecture.“It’s no surprise that Gealese would go to a top-notch graduate school like Harvard,” says Brett Tippey, Program Coordinator for Architectural Studies.  “Throughout her time as an Architectural Studies student Gealese always demonstrated the highest levels of intellectual depth, academic rigor and creative inquiry.”Peebles graduated magna cum laude in 2021 from the BA in Architectural Studies in ...

For Della Fowler, a chance opportunity to report on Kent State University gymnastics sparked a passion that has led her all the way to covering the Olympics.Fowler, a student in Kent State's journalism program, fell in love with gymnastics reporting after covering her first meet for TV2.“Literally the minute I walked onto that floor, it just felt right,” Fowler said. “I cried during my first meet, not because anything was sad, but just because I loved it so much.” That initial experience set her on a path that led to an internship with Inside Gymnastics, the premier source for gymnastics ...