Community & Society

Paddling Partners Team Up Along the Cuyahoga River
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Paddling is one of the fastest growing outdoor recreational sports around the country.  Few universities are located so close to a river to offer the sport, and even fewer partner with the city where it resides. 

ParkApps: Using Technology to Learn About a National Park
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Kent State's Rick Ferdig, Ph.D., served as lead investigator on a National Science Foundation grant to develop a new learning app that is now live and freely available on iTunes.

Educators, scientists, and technologists from the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Kent State University and Cleveland Metroparks have partnered to develop a new learning app that is now live and freely available on iTunes. 

No Desk Jobs for These Kent State Alumna
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Kent State Journalism Professor Says Clinton Nomination Highlights Double Standard
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Danielle Sarver Coombs, associate professor in Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, lectures in a Franklin Hall classroom during an afternoon journalism class.

Kent State Observes 46th Annual May 4 Commemoration
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A Kent State student stands vigil at the spot where Allison Krause was shot on May 4, 1970.

Kent State Student Creates Care Packages for the Homeless
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Kent State student Ashley Flowers poses under a bridge in downtown Kent with a bag full of items she hands out to the homeless in downtown Cleveland.

Life-Changing Event Inspires Kent State Entrepreneur to Help Prevent Infectious Diseases
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Shanice Cheatham worked with Kent State’s College of Public Health and LaunchNET Kent State to help her company, Endemic Solutions, develop its Endemic Filtration Portable Handwashing System.

A Very Special Thank You to the Kent State Community for Its Generosity on Giving Tuesday
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Kent State University President Beverly Warren, pictured here with Kent State students, has personally matched $25,000 for donations made to Kent State on Giving Tuesday.

Kent State Community Members Share What They Are Thankful for This Year
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Kent State Named to 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll
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Kent State students, including members of its athletics teams, fraternities and sororities, joined community members to restore the Mitchell/McClelland Ballpark in the McElrath neighborhood of Ravenna Township, Ohio.

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