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June 21, 2016
Kent State University faculty, staff and students are invited to ride a bicycle or walk along the Lefton Esplanade for the fifth annual “Let’s Take a Ride/Walk” event on Thursday, Sept. 10. “Let’s Take a Ride/Walk” is a free event that…
June 21, 2016
Kent State 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
Anything is possible.
Theresa Medrano, a Kent State University senior from Westlake, Ohio, is living proof of this.
At age 17, like most high school seniors, Medrano should have been thinking about senior prom and graduation. But she…
June 21, 2016
Kent State University has been named to the 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, which is the highest federal recognition an institution can receive for its commitment to community, service-learning and civic…
June 21, 2016
University teams up with PepsiCo to increase recycling efforts on campus
The PepsiCo Dream machine, located in the Kent Student Center, is an innovative system that rewards people with points for every recycled plastic …
June 21, 2016
Kent State University and the city of Kent, Ohio, were awarded the inaugural Catalytic Partnership Award for their collaboration to revitalize downtown Kent and improve the connectivity of the campus and the city.
The Greater Ohio Policy…
April 28, 2016
Kent State University residence halls are collecting nonperishable food, clothes, rugs, furniture and other usable items now through May 14 for the Throw ‘n’ Go initiative.The initiative, which began in 2003, gives students the opportunity…
March 18, 2016
On March 17, Kent State University's Division of Human Resources will partner with the Office of Sustainability to host Shred Mania from 7:…
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Feb. 11, 2016
A Kent State University student’s interpretive sign project is helping the university become more environmentally friendly.
Krisztina Janossy, who graduated this past December, started her interpretive design project for sustainable…
Nov. 25, 2015
Kent State participated in the annual football GameDay Recycling Challenge for the first time on Oct. 26 in a home game against the…
