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Honors College Welcome Event 2024

IN A FLASH: Welcome Honors College Class of 2028!

A special event welcomed Kent State's first-year Honors College students to Fall Semester 2024. 

Tags: Fall Semester, Freshmen, Honors College, Student Life, Students First

Honors College

The new Sensory Wellbeing Space on the Kent Campus.

New Sensory Wellbeing Space Opens on Kent Campus

A space inside the Speech and Hearing Clinic has been renovated to serve as the new Sensory Wellbeing Space where neurodiverse students and their allies can find a welcoming and inclusive environment for gathering or study.

Tags: Research & Science, Student Life, Students First, Diverse Kent State

Kent State Today

Flash Focus: Bryson Bodo

Flash Focus: Bryson Bodo

Meet Bryson Bodo, a biology major with a pre-medicine concentration from Unionport, Ohio, and a member of Kent State University’s Honors College. 

Tags: Profiles, Students First, Student Life

Kent State Today

Goodyear Blimp Pilot

Goodyear Blimp Pilots Have Full-Circle Moment

The skies over Kent State University's Airport will feature a unique homecoming this weekend as three alumni return to pilot the Goodyear Blimp during the Aeronautics and Engineering Expo (A&E Expo) on Saturday.

Tags: Profiles, Nationally Distinctive, Students First

Kent State Today

New Kent State Votes Banner

Working to Get Student Voters Informed and Engaged

The Kent State Votes initiative is working with organizations and departments across campus to help engage and inform student voters in advance of the coming elections. 

Tags: Voting, Elections, Community & Society, Community Impact, Nationally Distinctive, Student Life, University News, Students First, May 4, Kent State Athletics

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CAED graduate student welcome 2024

IN A FLASH: A Welcome at Wick

Graduate students in Kent State's College of Architecture and Environmental Design received a personal welcome from the college's associate dean at the park outside Kent State's Wick Poetry Center. 

Tags: graduate students, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Wick Poetry Center, Students First, Nationally Distinctive, Fall Semester

Kent State Today

Adobe Creative Campus

Adobe Creative Commons Now Open

Kent State University celebrated its designation as an Adobe Creative Campus with the grand opening of the Adobe Creative Commons, marking a significant milestone in the institution's commitment to digital literacy.

Tags: University News, Students First

Kent State Today

The Kent State Student Study logo.

Students Wanted: Sign Up to be Part of Largest-Ever Study of University Students

Researchers at Kent State University are beginning the second year of their largest and most ambitious study ever to track 10,000 university students and follow them throughout their lifetimes.  

Tags: Health, Research & Science, Student Life, Students First, Nationally Distinctive, Department of Psychological Sciences, Kent State of Wellness

Kent State Today

Flash Focus: Molly Wagar

Flash Focus: Molly Wagar

Meet junior art history major and English minor from Medina, Ohio, Molly Wagar. The decision on what to study at Kent State University was an easy one for Wagar, and she has found inspiration in the people and professors she has met here. 

Tags: Profiles, Students First, Student Life

Kent State Today

CAED Welcome 2024

IN A FLASH: Ice Cream with the Dean

Kent State's College of Architecture and Environmental Design welcomed new and returning students back to campus with ice cream on the Lefton Esplanade and greetings from the college's dean, program heads and leaders of its student organizations. 

Tags: Welcome Back Week, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Fall Semester, Freshmen, Community & Society, Students First, Nationally Distinctive

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