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June 21, 2016
The third annual Water Research Symposium at Kent State University will be held Oct. 14-15 at the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center in downtown Kent, Ohio. This year, the symposium is co-sponsored by the National Academy of…
June 21, 2016
The groundbreaking for Kent State University’s new Integrated Sciences Building was held Oct. 2 from 2-5 p.m. The event was free and open to the public. Following the groundbreaking, Kent State’s College of Arts and Sciences hosted a…
June 21, 2016
Through a mutual agreement between Kent State University’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design and Youngstown State University’s Center for Urban and Regional Studies, more than 75 Kent State students will spend the next year…
June 21, 2016
Kent State University’s commitment to maintaining a diverse and inclusive campus has received acknowledgement from INSIGHT Into Diversity, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education, for a third…
June 21, 2016
East Summit Street, which has been identified by the Akron Metropolitan Area Transportation Study as the most congested roadway in Summit and Portage counties, is preparing for a facelift. The Summit Street: Building a Better Way…
June 21, 2016
Kent State University Geography Professor Andrew Curtis and his doctoral student Laura Schuch, in the College of Arts and Sciences, have developed mapping approaches that can help predict neighborhood lead exposure in children which…
June 21, 2016
Kent State University has received two prominent rankings in the new 2016 edition of Best Colleges byU.S. News & World Report that was released Sept. 9, 2015, with inclusions on both the Top Public Schools list and the Best…
June 21, 2016
Kent State University’s College of Podiatric Medicine in Independence, Ohio, has installed 42 recycling bins as part of a national recycling bin grant made possible by Keep America Beautiful and the Coca-Cola Foundation.
At Kent State’s…
June 21, 2016
Kent State University’s bike-rental program, Flashfleet, will debut its third-generation, technology-based bike-share program on Aug. 31. The custom Flashfleet bikes will be provided by Nextbike, a company that develops and operates bike-…
June 21, 2016
An opening celebration to formally introduce Kent State University at Stark’s Science and Nursing Building, the campus’s seventh major structure, was held on Aug. 27.
The 41,140-square-foot building is Kent State Stark’s anchor for…
