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In the new video series "What's the Big Idea?", 5X���� President Todd Diacon travels around campus exploring research activity.  In Episode 2, Diacon talks with a student and an assistant professor from Kent State's College of Aeronautics and Engineering about the research they are conducting involving birds, drones and the challenges in keeping them from colliding in the sky.  Take a ride with Diacon to find out more about their research.      Katie Horn is a sophomore aeronautics major, who participated in the...

In the new video series "What's the Big Idea?", 5X���� President Todd Diacon travels around campus exploring research activity.  In Episode 2, Diacon talks with a student and an assistant professor from Kent State's College of Aeronautics and Engineering about the research they are conducting involving birds, drones and the challenges in keeping them from colliding in the sky.  Take a ride with Diacon to find out more about their research.      Katie Horn is a sophomore aeronautics major, who participated ...

On a sunny, fall day, Kent State graduate student Korey Patterson, of Pittsburgh, was wearing a hard hat and safety glasses as he and other students stood near the edge of a large, open hole on the east side of the Aeronautics and Engineering building on the Kent Campus. Safety's important when class is conducted in the field, which in this case means traveling to the other side of campus.   The excavation is for the expansion of Kent State’s College of Aeronautics and Engineering (CAE) building. The project broke ground on Oct. 1, 2021. A livestream of construction progr...

We invite high school students and their families to visit the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for Explore Kent Chemistry Day on Saturday, February 4, 2023 from 10:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m. High school juniors and seniors come from all over Ohio and neighboring states for Explore Kent Chemistry Day! At Explore Kent Chemistry Day, our chemistry and biochemistry Faculty will discuss our curriculum, job prospects with our degrees and research opportunities available to undergraduates.  Current Kent State chemistry and biochemistry majors will provide insight into Ken...

5X���� at Ashtabula will celebrate the fall graduating class of 2022 when it hold its 75th Commencement Ceremony on Friday, Dec. 16, 2022 at SPIRE in Geneva, Ohio, beginning at 7 p.m. Approximately 150 graduates will be recognized at the event, which will be the fourth Kent State Ashtabula ceremony held in SPIRE’s track and field building. Ashtabula native and graduating honors senior Justin Thompson will deliver the student address. “Commencement is a major milestone in the lives of our students,” said Interim Dean and Chief Administrative Officer R. William (Bill) Ay...

Happy Holidays from 5X���� at Stark! The campus will be closed for winter break Friday, Dec. 23, 2022, through Monday, Jan. 2, 2023.  Buildings and offices will reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, during regular business hours. Everyone at Kent State Stark wishes you a joyous and healthy holiday season. ...

  The School of Peace and Conflict Studies is excited to share our latest news!  From Kent State Today: KENT STATE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES MASTER’S DEGREE IN PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES    The 5X���� Board of Trustees approved the establishment of a new master’s degree that will help meet two decades of sustained growth in the broad field of conflict studies. The new Peace and Conflict Studies major within the Master of Arts degree will be offered in person on the Kent Campus and will prepare students for careers as practitioners in the ...

Last week’s Faculty/Staff News Now publication made the university community aware of the fact that the year-long Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 project, undertaken by the web presence group in the Division of Information Technology, web team from the Division of University Communications and Marketing and our partner, One Origin, would wrap up this month. Project Update This weekend the project team flipped the switch for Kent State’s website so that it now lives in a Drupal 9 environment rather than a Drupal 7 instance.    While the project team hopes that 80-90% of the changes...

The November/December issue of Ohio Magazine featuring the city of Kent as one of its Best Hometowns for 2022-2023 is now available online.   The Best Hometown honor recognizes Kent as a great place to live, work and visit. The magazine’s editors chose Kent for its vibrant downtown, strong campus-community connection and focus on supporting residents and students alike.  Kent is one of five cities to be selected as a Best Hometown for 2022-2023, along with Athens, Bellefontaine, Perrysburg and Versailles.  To determine this year’s honorees for Best Hometo...

On chilly, gray days like today, people can find a place that's warm and green in the greenhouse behind Cunningham Hall on the Kent Campus  The Herrick Conservatory is home to a large and diverse selection of plants, plus some fish and a couple of turtles. Highlights of the collection include a 30-year-old rubber tree, a strawberry guava tree, banana trees, flowering plants and vegetables, succulents, tropical varieties and even carnivorous plants. The conservatory is managed by Melissa Davis (pictured), horticultural facilities director. It&n...