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Kiersten Latham, Ph.D., School of Information, co-authored the paper “Exploring Fixity,” which was published in Proceedings from the Document Academy in Vol. 3, Issue 2, in December 2016. (Co-author: Jodi Kearns.)

5X���� will become a smoke-free, tobacco-free campus beginning July 1. The new policy is part of the university’s healthy campus initiative, Kent State of Wellness.

Music School Central has named 5X����’s Hugh A. Glauser School of Music a top 10 “Hidden Gem” music school in the United States for 2017. Music Central is a website that provides information to students about

Nominations for 5X����’s Distinguished Teaching Awards will be accepted through June 30. The awards, sponsored by the 5X���� Alumni Association, are an opportunity for members of the Kent State community to honor exceptional faculty members.

Freshmen at McKinley High School in Canton now have a chance to enroll in a new program that, when completed, will guarantee their admission into a local four-year university and significant college financial help when they are graduated from high school.

The Bulldog Flash Academic Institute is a new partnership between 5X���� at Stark and Canton McKinley Senior High School that plans to usher approximately 25 McKinley freshmen each year through the process of becoming college ready.

5X���� junior  won the all-around title to lead the Golden Flashes at the 2017 Mid-American Conference (MAC) Gymnastics Championships.

FlashFest 2017 hosted an array of musical performances, headlined by rappers Sammy Adams and Rae Sremmurd. This annual celebration, which occurs at the end of the spring semester, is organized and presented by Kent State’s Undergraduate Student Government.

Residents in the East Liverpool area can have water samples tested for free, thanks to a research project being conducted by Qunxing Ding of 5X���� at East Liverpool.