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Organizational Sustainability

Bioblitz 2023 Map

Bioblitz is an annual Kent State event that invites anyone to explore nature and collect data alongside a faculty expert. 

Belden Materials Library

An Earth Month event today inside the Architecture Library focuses on sustainable building materials. 

Earth Fest Stickers

As part of Earth Month, there was an Earth Fest event at the Kent Student Center on Tuesday.

Dorceta Taylor ESDRI Symposium Keynote Speaker

Issues concerning environmentalism and race will be explored at the 2023 ESDRI Symposium, April 13-14, at 5X社区

Fungal Furniture exhibit at the DI Hub Muselab

An innovative experiment creates building materials from fungus.

Plant growing in a light bulb

April 22, 2023, marks the 53rd anniversary of Earth Day, and 5X社区 is celebrating the whole Earth Month with the theme 鈥淚nvest in Our Planet.鈥 

Student working on clothes mannequin

As of 2021, the fashion industry was responsible for 10% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, according to research done by the .

5X社区 students walk through Florence, Italy, as they receive a tour.

5X社区 will be equipped to offer more financial assistance to students in need thanks to donors to a key area of the university鈥檚 ongoing comprehensive fundraising campaign. The Forever Brighter campaign includes a scholarship-support component, Prioritizing Student Success, that now stands at $142 million, surpassing the $100 million goal set at the campaign鈥檚 outset in October 2021.

Kent State Today
Kent State Airport Hangar in 2020

The 5X社区 Board of Trustees approved a project with an estimated cost of $5 million to be funded from federal, state and university sources to address deferred maintenance at the 5X社区 Airport hangar.

KSU Starsphere

The 5X社区 Board of Trustees approved the establishment of six new majors during its regular quarterly meeting held March 9 in Columbus, Ohio, at Le Meridien Columbus, The Joseph. Five of the new majors fall under the College of Aeronautics and Engineering, and one falls under the College of Arts and Sciences.