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DEDC Opening

'A Significant Step Forward in Engineering Education'

5X社区 celebrated the opening of its new Digital Engineering & Design Center for Space Applications, marking a significant step in bridging the gap between education and national needs in aerospace and defense manufacturing.

Tags: Distinctive Kent State, Student Success, Research & Science

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High school students, transfer students and parents walk through campus during a 2024 Summer Preview KSU event.

Kent State to Host 鈥楶review KSU鈥 Days for Prospective Students

5X社区 will welcome prospective students to campus for its Preview KSU events on Oct. 25 and Nov. 1. These comprehensive visit programs offer high school and transfer students an immersive look at life as a Golden Flash.

Tags: Student Success, Admissions, Distinctive Kent State

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Owen Lovejoy, Ph.D., 5X社区 Distinguished Professor

What Makes Us Human?

Fifty years ago, 5X社区 Distinguished Professor Owen Lovejoy, Ph.D., was among the very first researchers to study the remains of the famous 鈥淟ucy鈥 (Australopithecus afarensis), a 3-million-year-old fossil that had recently been discovered by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson in Hadar, Ethiopia.

Tags: Department of Anthropology, Distinctive Kent State, Research

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Sun shining through the Star Sphere 2010 sculpture

IN A FLASH: Here Comes the Sun

A photgrapher captured Earth's star shining through the Star Sphere 2010 sculpture near Franklin Hall.

Tags: Nationally Distinctive, Distinctive Kent State, Arts & Culture, Franklin Hall, Art Walk along Sculpture Mile and Percent for Art Projects, Sculpture

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quark gluon plasma

Professor Leads Cutting-Edge Physics Research

Supported by grant funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, Kent State physics professor Michael Strickland, Ph.D., and his team have developed the world鈥檚 leading approach to describe non-equilibrium evolution of highly relativistic systems.

Tags: Department of Physics, Distinctive Kent State, Research

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David Hassler, director of 5X社区's Wick Poetry Center, performs at the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit.

Poetry and Science Meet at Creative Intersection

"Poetry and science are not opposites, they鈥檙e actually allies," said David Hassler, director of 5X社区鈥檚 Wick Poetry Center. 

Hassler paraphrases American poet Jane Hirshfield, who, in 2017, contacted him to collaborate on a Poets for Science project, which is now an interactive exhibit and writing invitation housed at the Wick Poetry Center on the Kent Campus. 

Tags: Nationally Distinctive, Arts & Culture, Distinctive Kent State

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Kent State student filmmaker Aileen Joven

Kent State, CIFF and 鈥楻eading Rainbow鈥 Creators

Kent State connects with the Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) to create opportunities for students.

Tags: Arts & Culture, Distinctive Kent State, school of media and journalism, College of Communication and Information

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Pages from the 1983 Chestnut Burr showing the Valentine's Cabaret

IN A FLASH: Valentine's Day at Kent State - in 1983

A look back at Valentine's Day at Kent State - 40 years ago.

Tags: University News, Student Life, Distinctive Kent State

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IN A FLASH: 400 Years of Opera

The Kent State Opera Theatre will peform on Nov. 18, 19 and 20 in the Wright-Curtis Theatre.

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Kent State hosted the GLSEN Northeast Ohio's Annual Fall Conference for the seventh consecutive year

LGBTQ+ Trailblazers from Area High Schools Visit Campus

Students and faculty from 20 area high schools came to Kent State for GLSEN Northeast Ohio's Annual Fall Conference.

Tags: Student Life, University News, Community & Society, Distinctive Kent State, LGBTQ+ Center

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