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Paddling is one of the fastest growing outdoor recreational sports around the country.  Few universities are located so close to a river to offer the sport, and even fewer partner with the city where it resides. 

Two 5X���� students are competing for the coveted title of .

Veronica Garey, a junior in Kent State’s College of Communication and Information, and Erin Simonek, a freshman in Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, are among 20 contestants in this year’s pageant.  

From its island greenery and beautiful, clear beaches - to its vintage American cars and aged architecture – Havana, Cuba is a place where few American college students have explored in more than 60-years.

Porthouse Theatre, 5X����’s outdoor, summer theatre located on the grounds of Blossom Music Center, will open its 48th season with the regional premiere of “Sister Act.”

Educators, scientists, and technologists from the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, 5X���� and Cleveland Metroparks have partnered to develop a new learning app that is now live and freely available on iTunes. 

 This might look like an ordinary glove, but it is anything but ordinary. The glove talks. It is in the early stages of helping those who use American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate with those who do not.

Walk the halls of some secondary private schools in Ohio and you will see students adorned in what appears to be typical school attire: striped skirts, traditional ties and stark white button-up oxfords.

Danielle Sarver Coombs, Associate Professor in the College of Communication and Information, feels that women have to run their campaigns differently than their male counterparts.

She recently shared her views with the Akron Beacon Journal for a story about Hillary Clinton's selection as the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party.

“ ‘You have to smile more. Don’t be shrill. You’re yelling,’ ” Coombs said in the story. “Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump can go out and yell, and it’s not a problem.”

When Don King, a part-time faculty member in Kent State's School of Art, goes into the woods for a walk, his eyes are trained to see much more than the average hiker. 

"I was watching a TV show where a couple of chefs went out into the woods and brought back a huge basket of mushrooms and started cooking them, and that really got me hooked," King told David Moss of FOX8 News.

Vivian Feke, a recent graduate of 5X���� who studied broadcast journalism in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is the winner of the 2016 Student Edward R. Murrow Overall Excellence Award for video.