Community Impact

The first "Flashes First Thursday" welcomes students to experience the shopping, dining, music and more that make downtown Kent a fun place to visit.

Kent State's Summer Commencement ceremonies took place on Manchester Field last Saturday. 

A scholarship funded through the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center benefits students in Kent State's Hospitality Management program. 

For more than a century, "The Rock" on the Kent Campus has been a colorful canvas expressing the changing moods of the community.

High school students come to Kent State each summer for the School of Music's Percussion Camp.

Kent State has been recognized for the 15th consecutive year with the Tree Campus Higher Education recognition (previously called the Tree Campus USA designation).

A federal grant will help restart a major improvement project for a highly trafficked area of downtown Kent. Changes to East Main Street will include wider sidewalks, bike and pedestrian paths and crossings, and two roundabouts.

Kent State-sponsored math camp helps to prepare high school students for plentiful STEM jobs in Ohio.

Teachers from northeast Ohio and from thousands of miles away in sub-Saharan Africa have been learning to create inexpensive math teaching tools thanks to the efforts of some Kent State University professors. 

Kent State canines and their human companions came to the Kent Campus for the Dog Days of Summer.