College of Arts and Sciences
![Kent State Professor voices concerns about budget cuts to environmental research. Kent State Professor voices concerns about budget cuts to environmental research.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/algae-wiki-ka.jpg?VersionId=3MnpYthgD2Riz7vPvIizl_OwcmiEhmIe&h=bde28bee&itok=IV_ZY07t)
Associate Geology Professor Anne Jefferson voices concern over proposed cuts to environmental research.
![Todd Diacon, Kent State’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, places the President’s Medal on Distinguished Professor of Human Evolutionary Studies C. Owen Lovejoy as Kent State President Beverly Warren watches.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/BOB_1477---USE-ON-HOME-PAGE%28web%29.jpg?VersionId=ccSPwOZr_k_WI.sF2reh_FIQ9g_q7huR&h=ec98a0f6&itok=7v0KOxCL)
Educator, pioneering scientist and visionary Owen Lovejoy receives the highest Kent State University honor.
![A student stands vigil on the spot where one of four students was shot on May 4, 1970.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/B0B_6379.jpg?VersionId=5EXyKV0wmYX_cm9OkOqZaf0QdlC.uSDV&h=e6f36a9c&itok=e-qYMXLO)
![Keynote speaker Donald Miller](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/DSC_0276_small.jpg?VersionId=t6ryuNGUJpS6WRG104ZibeLvA6Xj1qDP&h=16a6ccf5&itok=YG-K7Ncn)
![David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, guides a poetry workshop. Hassler and other Wick Poetry Center staff will lead March for Science participants in a poetry-writing exercise.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/Photo-of-David-Hassler---USE-ON-HOME-PAGE.jpg?VersionId=CvXkBmYotuyGlF.OJD30xh1ks.Wnl8pH&h=ec98a0f6&itok=pENkhy_b)
At the inaugural March for Science, a global demonstration centered in Washington, D.C., a special edition of the Wick Poetry Center's Traveling Stanzas titled Science Stanzas will provide an opportunity for participants to discover the intersection of expressive writing and scientific inquiry.