Distinctive Kent State

DEDC Opening

Kent State University celebrated the opening of its new Digital Engineering & Design Center for Space Applications, marking a significant step in bridging the gap between education and national needs in aerospace and defense manufacturing.

High school students, transfer students and parents walk through campus during a 2024 Summer Preview KSU event.

Kent State University will welcome prospective students to campus for its Preview KSU events on Oct. 25 and Nov. 1. These comprehensive visit programs offer high school and transfer students an immersive look at life as a Golden Flash.

Kent State Today
Owen Lovejoy, Ph.D., Kent State University Distinguished Professor

Fifty years ago, Kent State University Distinguished Professor Owen Lovejoy, Ph.D., was among the very first researchers to study the remains of the famous “Lucy” (Australopithecus afarensis), a 3-million-year-old fossil that had recently been discovered by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson in Hadar, Ethiopia.

Sun shining through the Star Sphere 2010 sculpture

A photgrapher captured Earth's star shining through the Star Sphere 2010 sculpture near Franklin Hall.

quark gluon plasma

Supported by grant funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, Kent State physics professor Michael Strickland, Ph.D., and his team have developed the world’s leading approach to describe non-equilibrium evolution of highly relativistic systems.

David Hassler, director of Kent State University's Wick Poetry Center, performs at the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit.

"Poetry and science are not opposites, they’re actually allies," said David Hassler, director of Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center. 

Hassler paraphrases American poet Jane Hirshfield, who, in 2017, contacted him to collaborate on a Poets for Science project, which is now an interactive exhibit and writing invitation housed at the Wick Poetry Center on the Kent Campus. 

Kent State student filmmaker Aileen Joven

Kent State connects with the Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) to create opportunities for students.

Pages from the 1983 Chestnut Burr showing the Valentine's Cabaret

A look back at Valentine's Day at Kent State - 40 years ago.

The Kent State Opera Theatre will peform on Nov. 18, 19 and 20 in the Wright-Curtis Theatre.

Kent State hosted the GLSEN Northeast Ohio's Annual Fall Conference for the seventh consecutive year

Students and faculty from 20 area high schools came to Kent State for GLSEN Northeast Ohio's Annual Fall Conference.