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March 28, 2016
51³Ô¹ÏÍø has earned its eighth consecutive recognition from Tree Campus USA, a national program created in 2008 by the Arbor Day Foundation to honor colleges and universities for effective campus forest management and for engaging staff and students in conservation…
March 27, 2016
51³Ô¹ÏÍø is mourning the loss of a valued member of its family. Trustee Richard H. Marsh passed away March 24.
March 24, 2016
Senior Research Fellow Quan Li, Ph.D., and his research group at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Liquid Crystal Institute®, in the College of Arts and Sciences, have published a research article in the March 17 issue of Nature that could lead to a variety of breakthrough device…
March 21, 2016
The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) and Coalition of Urban Serving Universities (USC) have awarded 51³Ô¹ÏÍø a $50,000 micro-grant to help remove the financial barrier to graduation that low-income students may face as they near graduation.
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March 21, 2016
When the concept of homelessness comes to mind, people tend to focus efforts on food donations, but Ashley Flowers, a junior majoring in psychology and criminology and justice studies at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, wants to remind people that clothing and toiletries also are…
March 16, 2016
Community members as well as 51³Ô¹ÏÍø faculty, staff, alumni and students are all invited to attend the Faculty Lecture Series, hosted by the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Alumni Association, from March 30 through May 3. Free and open to the public, the events span disciplines from…
March 16, 2016
The Wick Poetry Center at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø will expand its successful Traveling Stanzas project with $125,000 in new funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge.
The Knight Arts Challenge funds ideas that…
March 15, 2016
Since the time of the early Buddhist kings, Tibetan monks have practiced analytic meditation - where they memorize a Buddhist text and then attempt to deepen their understanding of this material by joining in debate pits lead by a senior monk, known as the challenger.
March 14, 2016
The spring 2016 Bowman Breakfast will take place at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø in the Kent Student Center Ballroom on Wednesday, March 30. Doors open at 7 a.m., breakfast begins at 7:30 a.m., and the program will follow at 8 a.m.
The topic for the event is “Kent Businesses … Their…