Bruna Mussoi School of Health Sciences   Dr. Mussoi is an Assistant Professor in the Speech Pathology and Audiology program. Her research focuses on the neural, perceptual and cognitive mechanisms underlying age-related changes in speech in noise understanding. She is also interested in how those factors impact speech understanding with cochlear implants (surgically implanted neural devices to improve hearing). Since establishing her Hearing and Aging Lab at Kent State University, Dr. Mussoi established internal and external collaborations with researchers at the Cleveland Cl...

Entrepreneurs who have a passion to start their own businesses while they are students are in a league all their own. Kent State University has a number of students in that league. Many of them. Fortunately for them, Kent State also has resources at the university and college levels to help support these young entrepreneurs from concept to launch.  Kent State Today reached out to four business owners who started their companies while they were students to learn what inspired them to begin and what motivates them to keep going.  GenZbuzz - Terrelle Tettey Terrelle Tettey, a s...

Kent, OH– Kent State Opera Theatre kicks off their Fall production with “Not/Ordinary: Scenes of Life and Love” November 17-19. Experience a night out at the opera with Kent State Opera Theatre! This year’s Fall production, “Not/Ordinary: Scenes of Life and Love,” explores the concept of love and its various forms– passion, obsession, longing and even suffering. “The primary goal of the Kent State Opera Theatre is to provide a nurturing, supportive environment for students to explore the myriad avenues of vocal performance,” said Jay White, director of opera studies. “The repertoire chos...

Andrea Sosa Fontaine’s artistic medium of choice is shoes.   “I always had an interest in high school in learning to make shoes, but there was nothing in my area for it,” Sosa Fontaine said. “I kind of pushed that aside and just happened to run into a shoemaker when I was working in New York, and I paid her by the hour to teach me how to make shoes. I was hooked immediately and really loved that I could design and make something in the span of like a week.”  Sosa Fontaine, assistant professor in Kent State University's College of Architecture and Environmental Design, says ...

Phase II of Kent State’s Mental Health Strategy implements university-wide efforts to promote a healthy and well campus community.  ...

From as far as 3,000 miles away in Alaska to as close as a short, 15-minute drive from Akron, the Class of 2027 comes from far and wide to be one thing: a Kent State Golden Flash. ...