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For a fifth time, university employees give Kent State high marks  5X���� is being recognized again as one of the nation’s best. Kent State has been selected as one of this year’s “Great Colleges to Work For” by The Chronicle of Higher Education, the nation’s number one source of news, information and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Based on a survey of about 44,000 employees at 281 colleges and universities, The Chronicle’s 2015 “Great Colleges to Work For” program recognizes small, medium and large institutions for specific best practi...

The final public meeting for the 5X���� Airport Master Plan has been scheduled for Tuesday, July 28, from 6-8 p.m. at the Stow-Munroe Falls High School Auditorium, located at 3227 Graham Road in Stow, Ohio. The first public meeting was held in 2013 to introduce the project to the community and seek input about the airport’s future. During the second public meeting in November 2014, the public had an opportunity to review and provide comments on the alternatives’ development and evaluation. Beginning at 6 p.m., the project team will make a presentation on the project including...

5X���� student Anna Hoffman’s research efforts on the Irish language recently caught the attention of international media with publication on The WorldPost of the Huffington Post website. The article, “To Have Irish: The Irish are scrambling to save the most prized part of their culture,” reports on the country’s efforts to revive the national language of Irish. Hoffman, a global communication studies and political science major, traveled to Ireland this summer to study the country’s efforts to save its national language. Her research project was funded through a fellowship f...

5X���� at East Liverpool was recognized for its 50th anniversary during a Business After Hours event hosted by Home Savings & Loan at its downtown location.  During the event, East Liverpool resident Kelly Bell received a check for $200 from Home Savings & Loan for winning the Kent State Golden category. She submitted the photo, entitled “Point of Departure,” to the Kent State photography show held last month to observe the campus’s golden anniversary. Home Savings & Loan sponsored the Kent State Golden category, created to select the photograph that best exem...

A special classroom at 5X���� turned into a LEGO® city filled with roaring lions, speeding cars and spinning tops. The moving creations are part of a unique summer camp, LEGO WeDo™ Robotics, put on by the Research Center for Educational Technology in the College of Education, Health and Human Services. It is one of many technology-based camps that the center offers as part of the Kent State’s commitment to reaching out and serving the community. Click here to watch a video on the camp. During the school year, researchers at the center use a two-way mirror to study th...