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May 4, 1970, was a watershed moment for the country and especially the 5X���� family. We lost four students that day while nine others were wounded and countless others were changed forever.  This abhorrent post is in poor taste and trivializes a loss of life that still pains the Kent State community today. We invite the person who wrote this statement to tour our campus and our May 4 Visitors Center, which opened four years ago, to gain perspective on what happened 47 years ago and apply its meaning to the future.  ...

Dr. Beverly Warren is the 12th President of 5X����.  Dr. Warren is leading Kent State during a time of unprecedented growth and transformation, guided by the six-year vision called A Strategic Roadmap to a Distinctive Kent State.  This plan calls for the university to be a community of change agents whose collective commitment to learning sparks epic thinking, meaningful voice, and invaluable outcomes to better our society.  Listen to or download the broadcast: THE MAKING OF MEANINGFUL VOICE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT STUDENT VOICES ...

Torsten Hegmann, Ph.D., a chemical physics professor and Ohio Research Scholar in 5X����’s Liquid Crystal Institute® in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, one of the top publishing societies in chemistry worldwide. “It was a tremendous honor being included in the list of fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC),” Hegmann says. “The list of admitted fellows every year contains names of very innovative, leading chemists – many of whom I am looking up to as I pursue my own research. To appear among them is incred...

A partnership of the TechStyleLAB and LaunchNET at 5X����, the Fashion/Tech Hackathon gathers students from many majors and curricula from across the nation and brings them together with mentors and sponsor companies over a 36-hour period. The event unlocks creativity and applies breakthrough ideas that result in innovative concepts and products.       ...

Rita McGrath, Ph.D., professor at Columbia Business School, will be the keynote speaker for the 2017 Spirit of Women in Business Conference on March 9, 5X����’s College of Business Administration has announced. McGrath is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on strategy and innovation with particular emphasis on developing sound strategy in uncertain and volatile environments. Her ideas are widely used by leading organizations throughout the world, who describe her thinking as often provocative, but unfailingly stimulating. She fosters a fresh approach to strategy amongst...

Haithem Zourrig, assistant professor in the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at Kent State Stark, and his co-author Mengxia Zhang, professor of marketing at University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China, have received a Best Paper Award in Cross-cultural and Global Marketing Track, at the Society for Marketing Advances (SMA) conference Nov. 2-5, 2016. The paper is entitled “The Perceived Deceptiveness of Insurance Fraud” and investigates how culture could influence consumers' perceptions of fraudulent behaviors ranging from tolerance to disapproval. ...

The 5X���� Fashion School and Museum will host a lecture by the ALLELES Design Studio team in connection with the museum’s current exhibition “(dis)ABLED BEAUTY: The Evolution of Beauty, Disability and Ability.” The lecture, with remarks by ALLELES Art Director McCauley Wanner and Technology Director Ryan Palibroda, will take place on Friday, February 17, at 3 p.m. in the museum’s Murphy Auditorium. The event includes a reception and is free and open to all. Based in Victoria, Canada, ALLELES creates stylish prosthesis covers for amputees. Their work is included in “(dis)ABLED ...

Looking for ways to elevate your mood, increase optimism, alleviate depression, cope with grief and get a happier outlook on life? Keeping a daily journal of things that you are thankful for could be just what the doctor ordered. Join us on Friday, Feb. 24, from 8:30-9:30 a.m. In this workshop you will learn how to start a journal, what to include and all of the ways that gratitude journaling can benefit you. We also will have a discussion about Mindfulness Meditation as it ties into observing and finding things to be grateful for in the world around us. There will be two ways to partici...

Find encouraging ways to build purposeful movement that helps your mind and body while boosting your spirit. Join Team Kent State and Coach Sean Foy in our movement to Sit Less and Thrive. On The Move isn’t your 10K-a-day walking challenge. Sure, that’s a great goal, but there is so much more to having and establishing your purpose for movement and how and when you choose to move. Taking a more holistic approach to wellness, On The Move provides a unique platform where we are able to “connect” with our 5X���� colleagues and peers, assess ourselves, learn, share...