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In the spirit of community, Kent State student volunteers picked up litter and trash around Kent neighborhoods following the annual Fake Paddy's Day celebration.
The Ohio Senate voted unanimously on March 25 to designate a stretch of Interstate 480 in Cuyahoga County as the Officer Jacob J. Derbin Memorial Highway, honoring the Euclid police officer who was killed in the line of duty in May 2024.
Kent State University has earned the Military Friendly® School designation for 2026-2027, its 17th consecutive year. Marine Corps veteran and Kent State senior Richard Hlavaty shares how Kent State’s veteran support services have shaped his academic and professional journey.
Thanks to nearly $2.3 million in grant funding from the Ohio Department of Education, Kent State is training and endorsing K-12 teachers in computer science instruction across every grade level and subject area. The teachers arriving in these courses are not who you might picture. And what they leave with has started to surprise even their instructors.
Lauren Cohen, a senior journalism major from Twinsburg, Ohio, has already made an impact during her internship, producing many front-page stories for the Akron Beacon Journal and Signal Akron.