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Kent State University Holds Virtual May 4 50th Commemoration, Occurring May 1-4

Beginning Friday, May, visitors to the May 4 50th Commemoration website will be able to view a variety of special videos, online exhibits and interactive tours, all designed to honor and remember Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder, the Kent State students who lost their lives 50 years ago on the Kent State campus.

Finding Fulfillment as a Commuter in the Honors College

Is our drinking water quality threatened here in the Great Lakes region?

Have you ever seen the “nasty green slime” – properly known as a harmful algal bloom, or HAB in Lake Erie?

Kent State University's Autism Research Ongoing on Various Fronts

April’s observance as Autism Awareness Month is coming to a close, but research into the whys and hows of autism is always ongoing at Kent State University.

Michael N. Lehman, Ph.D., director of the Brain Health Research Institute at Kent State, said the university supports autism research that focuses on basic discoveries within the brain, as well as applied human research of students with autism, which makes Kent State’s body of research unique and diverse.

Music of May 4th

Two professors from Kent State University at Ashtabula share their playlists for protest songs and popular songs from the time period of May 4, 1970.

Salem Nursing Faculty Organize Effort to Feed Local Healthcare Workers

Nurses are known for their compassion, concern and desire to care for others. The nursing faculty at the Kent State Salem Campus recently demonstrated that compassion and care by delivering food to frontline workers at local healthcare facilities.

Remembering May 4 - An Interview with Devo's Jerry Casale

“I had always been making art and music but the events of May 4th and beyond galvanized my creativity, infusing it with an existential anger and urgency that would otherwise not have happened. In short Devo and the idea of De-evolution as a manifesto would not exist without that defining historic trauma I experienced.” - Jerry Casale

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Kent State Students Create Documentaries Depicting 'College During Corona'

While locked down in their apartments or family homes, students in the Kent State course Journalism and Documentary are telling a story that future generations and historians will one day discuss: What was college life like when the coronavirus pandemic changed the world? 

May 4 Fashion Exhibitions

Two exhibitions at the Kent State University Museum explored the fashion divide of the ’60s and ’70s and the current day dialogue about social justice, political discourse, conflict resolution and war and peace.