MEDIA ADVISORY: Kent State’s 2016 Homecoming Scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 1

Kent State University College of Business Administration student Danielle Flemister is the recipient of the 2014 Rising Student Entrepreneur Award.

Kent State University President Lester A. Lefton and Kent City Manager Dave Ruller will make a special presentation to representatives from the city and university safety forces on Tuesday, April 29. The presentation of specially designed T-shirts recognizes the creation of a joint police patrol district in the area between the west edge of the Kent State campus and the city of Kent.

Brock Bernholtz, Kent State University junior entrepreneurship major, is the CEO and founder of InCheck Services LLC, a drop-off tracking application that allows customers to stay in touch with items that are dropped off for repairs, changes and more.

New Wheels on Kent State Campus Turn Heads

The green flash that you see out of the corner of your eye on the Kent State University campus is not an alien pod or an insect on steroids.

Lil’ Sibs Weekend, titled Sibs in Space, will be held from Friday, April 25, through Sunday, April 27. It is open to little siblings (or cousins or family friends) of students, as well as children of Kent State University faculty and staff members.

Kent State University’s Ohio Employee Ownership Center will host the 28th Annual Ohio Employee Ownership Conference on Thursday, April 24, at the Hilton West in Fairlawn. The theme for the conference is “A Wealth of Opportunity: Employee Ownership Fuels Growth.”

Participants at the conference will hear from the following keynote speakers:

On March 7, 2014, the Center for Applied Conflict Management (now the School of Peace and Conflict Studies) held a conference in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Center's BA degree program, which began in the 1973-74 academic year.  This is one of the country's largest and most robust programs in Peace and Conflict Studies.  This year is also the inaugural years of the Conflict Analysis and Management Doctoral track in the PhD program in Political Science at Kent State.  The March conference celebrated both milestones. 

A new PBS series called “Your Inner Fish” includes interviews with anthropology experts from Kent State University. C.

Kent State University’s Child Development Center will host its Visitation Day on April 24-25 on the Kent Campus. This year’s theme is “The Great Outdoors: Planning a Nature-based Curriculum With Young Children” and will be highlighted by keynote speaker Rusty Keeler, as well as an introduction to the center’s Outdoor Learning Laboratory.

Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns will speak at the fifth Kent State University Presidential Speaker Series on Tuesday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center).