Community Impact

Plant vendor at Spring 2023 Farmers' Market

The first on-campus Farmers' Market of spring arrived on Tuesday in the DI Hub. 

Kent State Alumna Heather Malarcik is director of Main Street Kent.

As a Kent State University student in the early 1990s, Heather Rohwedder Malarcik '96 could never have imagined that she would one day find her dream job in downtown Kent, Ohio.

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Kindness Rocks at the Women's Center

People from Kent and Kent State are sharing positivity and building community with small rocks. 

Wheelchair Basketball Championship Game 2023

On Saturday, Kent State hosted Adaptive Sports Ohio's Wheelchair Basketball Championship. 

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Lafayette Tolliver and Gene Shelton identify people in photos on the screen

More than 1,000 photos of Black student life have been digitized and are waiting for members of the Kent State community to help identify them.

The view from the control booth at a rehearsal of "Urinetown."

The view from the control booth at a rehearsal of “Urinetown.”

Drone footage shows the freight train derailment, Feb. 6, 2023, in East Palestine, Ohio. (Photo courtesy of Ntsbgov/via Reuters)

Kent State University faculty members have been contacted by various media outlets to lend their expert opinions and insight as cleanup work, air monitoring, water testing and more continues following the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

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Administrative visit to Kent State at Stark - February 2023

Kent State administrators met with campus advisory boards on all seven of the university's Regional Campuses this week. 

Clare Murray Adams Artwork

From the classroom to the art studio, Clare Murray Adams, B.S., '72; M.A., '76; and BFA, '93, has been exploring herself and her surroundings since 1977 when she made the switch from education to creation.

Kent State student Lucia Perry, of Poland, Ohio, studies fashion merchandising.

From her perch in Rockwell Hall, where she takes classes as a fashion merchandising major, Kent State University student Lucia Perry has a perfect view of the Lefton Esplanade leading to downtown Kent.