In The News
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 2021
Dear Kent State Faculty and Staff,
T-G-I-Fridays at Kent State University!
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Session facilitators DJ Enga and Megan Cooper will help attendees identify financial triggers that can impede a relationship from moving forward.
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A freak accident in 2014 took Richard Lehman Jr. from an Army deployment in Afghanistan to an undergraduate student on the Trumbull Campus.
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Jessica Conrad, Ph.D., a lecturer of English at Kent State University at Stark, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Austria.
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On Thursday, August 5, Kent State faculty and staff will have full access to the SRWC and may use the facility free of charge for the entire day.
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Employee Wellness and Recreational Services will offer in-person and virtual, weekly group exercise sessions this fall semester for faculty and staff.
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Lanetta Rucker was one of the first graduates to benefit from a partnership between Paul Mitchell the School Cleveland and the Twinsburg Academic Center.