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5X���� at Trumbull is opening the Hart’s School of Performing Arts in October. Shiloh Hart was featured on WKBN for starting an eight-week program for high school students searching for knowledge and experience in the performing arts.

Kent State's wellness program includes free Lunchtime Bike/Scooter Rides for faculty and staff offered monthly from May to September. 

Antarctica's "doomsday glacier" has been making headlines for its rapid melting, which could lead to large rises in sea levels much earlier than experts originally observed. In addition, "zombie ice" has been reported in Greenland, which unfortunately is not a "Game of Thrones" reference, but more rapidly melting ice sheets that will impact sea levels. To find out more about these headlines related to the climate, we reached out to Cameron Lee, assistant professor in the Department of Geography.  

5X���� is one of the best colleges in the nation to work for, according to a recent survey. For the 11th time, Kent State has been named a “Great College to Work For,” which recognizes the colleges that get top ratings from their employees regarding workplace practices and policies.

State Representative Gail Pavliga visited with students from the College of Aeronautics and Engineering and took the flight simulator out for a spin.

reports that a new movie inspired by the shootings at 5X���� on May 4, 1970, is in the works and will be released next year. 

5X���� continues to demonstrate its strength as an academic institution with its inclusion on several lists in the new 2022-2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings. U.S. News has again named Kent State among the Top Public Schools in the nation in the newly released rankings.

Kent State’s Community Engaged Learning partnered with the United Way of Portage county to make reading fun for children, and in doing so, CEL has been recognized by the United Way of Portage County as the recipients of the 2022 Community Impact: Group Award for its commitment to transforming lives in the community.

The greatly anticipated Cleveland Bagel Café opened this week on East Main Street in Kent and will begin regular operating hours on Monday, September 12. 

The 2022 Fall Semester is officially underway, and no new school year would be complete without KSU Kickoff. Residence halls move-in corresponded with KSU Kickoff check-in, which was followed by three days of activities on and off campus.

Anas' friends are living vicariously through him as he attends Kent State as an exchange student sponsored through , a program supported by the U.S. Department of State. 

Incoming and existing military-connected Kent State students were welcomed to campus with open arms at the Veterans and Service Members Open House hosted by the Center for Adult and Veteran Services (CAVS). The event aimed to bring the military community - from student to spouse to staff member - together with food, refreshments and conversation.

Mary Ann Devine, Ph.D., and professor in the Recreation, Park and Tourism Management program, recently authored a book titled, “Inclusive Leisure: A Strengths-based Approach.”

5X����, in response to a request from Intel^®, will lead a network that includes 13 other Ohio higher education institutions now poised to prepare the workforce to make the small electronic devices that play a large role in our everyday lives.

There is a growing number of juniors and seniors, faculty and staff who opted to buy a meal plan for Fall Semester 2022.

Remote learning means students can study and take their exams virtually -- make that literally -- anywhere. 

In August 2021, 1,000 incoming Kent State students, faculty and staff began a collaborative community effort to implement a social justice quilting project. This initiative stemmed from the Community Engaged Learning department's welcome week and was completed in late August 2022. The mission was to create something by Kent State students that could be sold or auctioned off to raise money for improvements to the gymnasium at the King Kennedy Community Center.

The project team, led by Yanhai Du, Ph.D., developed a lightweight-high-energy-density onboard power source that enables vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) type aircraft to potentially increase flight time and payload.

The students who founded Kent State's first Greek organization used the university administration's own initiatives as a way around anti-fraternity sentiments.

5X����’s newest anthropologist, Assistant Professor Aldo Cimino, Ph.D., has made it his life’s work to understand the causes and consequences of hazing, including the possible generation of solidarity. He and his co-author recently published an on this question in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.