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Freshman Guard Dionna Gray's journey from her home in West Virginia to the Golden Flashes began as a teenager when she told her father she wanted to do something other than basketball.  The deal that followed made all the difference. 

Frigid temperatures and snow create scenes of frozen beauty around campus campus.

Research conducted by Kent State and Illinois State faculty found that a COVID-19 diagnosis lowered same-semester GPA for students at a state university.

After graduating from the Salem Campus radiologic technology program in 2007, Tabitha Lockhart worked fulltime as a mobile X-ray technologist traveling throughout Ohio. At the same time, she took classes through Kent State and earned her bachelor’s degree in public health in 2012. 

Tuesday's home game was themed to showcase Kent State's international students and international student-athletes. 

White Coat Ceremonies were held on five Kent State campuses in January. 

Don't miss it when the Kent State Golden Flashes play arch rival the Akron Zips on Feb. 3 for the contest. Tipoff is scheduled for 9 p.m. at Akron’s James A. Rhodes Arena. The game will air on ESPNU. 

The Design Innovation (DI) collaborator network will grow this semester as the DI Hub and its makerspaces open to the public through a new community membership. 

International Night at the Golden Flashes men's basketball game at the MAC Center. 

Feb. 1 marks the start of Black History Month. The chair of Kent State's Department of Africana Studies and the current president of Black United Students at Kent State discuss the university's connection to the monthlong celebration.

Justine Gallo, a 2022 Kent State fashion design graduate, has taken her personal philosophy and combined it with her degree to launch a new store in downtown Kent.

Some of 5XÉçÇø’s most prestigious alumni in the field of neuroscience have agreed to serve on the Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI) Advisory Board, which will host its inaugural meeting today. 

Aimee Crane (Visual Communication Design - BFA ’09, MFA ’12) has the distinction of being the Kent State graduate whose work might just go the farthest. The farthest away from the Earth, that is. Currently the Artemis Brand Manager for NASA, Crane designed the mission patch for the Artemis I Mission which accompanied the Orion spacecraft on its orbit around the moon. We recently spoke with her about her own voyage from Kent State to NASA.

Alicia Costello is making the rounds of northeast Ohio.  As an upperclassman who was born in the Sandy Valley area, she now resides in Canton, and commutes to the KSU Salem and Stark campuses regularly to attend class.

Dreams of launching a business, researching brand new materials and developing groundbreaking systems have come true for four Kent State undergraduate students. With the support and guidance of dedicated faculty, along with access to state-of-the-art labs and equipment in the Design Innovation Hub, students Garrett Hartley, Lucas Cragel, Ethan Hartley and Brian Courts are taking their studies to the next level by developing their startup company, PolyVolt Technologies.

A group of graduate students from Kent State's School of Music gave an impromptu, lunchtime performance at the DI Hub. 

The Biennial Faculty Show runs from Jan. 17 through Feb. 10. 

An advertising major from Brazil has found a welcoming home at Kent State. 

"The Serlio Code" exhibition is on display in the DI Hub Gallery through Feb. 3. 

When you fill your cup of coffee every morning from the 5XÉçÇø dining halls or reach for a new bag of coffee grounds in Rosie’s, have you ever stopped to think about where the Flash Fuel design came from?