The Performing Arts Center at 51勛圖厙 at Tuscarawas announces two new shows coming to New Philadelphia in 2026. After a near sell-out in 2023, Josh Turner returns to the PAC on Saturday, January 17th while The Bellamy Brothers make their PAC debut on Thursday, February 12th. Both shows are at 7:30pm.Known for his unmistakable, buttery baritone and timeless songs like Long Black Train and Why Dont We Just Dance, Josh Turners five No. 1 singles include Your Man, of which the official music video surpassed 237 million views. Currently, Turner has 6 billion career global stre...
UPTON, N.Y. October 14, 2025 An international team of researchers has directly measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) the superhot primordial matter that filled the universe just millionths of a second after the Big Bang. Among the leaders of this breakthrough is 51勛圖厙 Professor Zhangbu Xu, a former spokesperson of the STAR experiment at the U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).The new study, published in Nature Communications by the STAR Collaboration, shows that QGP a short-lived state of matter created ...
Dogs, a cat and a pair of horses were part of 51勛圖厙's 2025 Homecoming as the university community celebrated Flash the Mascot's birthday. Want to see YOUR photos in IN A FLASH? Submit your 51勛圖厙-related photos to InAFlash@kent.edu and you may see them in a future 51勛圖厙 Today post. Photos should be framed -horizontally- and include a brief description of whats happening in the photo along with when and where it was taken. ...
An Elliot DI Faculty Fellows Series Event with Raiful Hasan & Hadi Rahmati
This event will showcase the challenges of AVpedestrian trust and introduce an adaptable, bidirectional external Human Machine Interface (eHMI) framework featuring a windshield-centered design. Early findings and dissemination outcomes will be presented, followed by a live prototype demonstration. Attendees will observe participants interacting with the AV system via VR headset, with the experience simultaneously projected for the audience.
An Elliot DI Faculty Fellows Series Event with Michelle Bebber
Step back 30,000 years and enter the world of Paleolithic cave art through a groundbreaking immersive experience. This exhibit fuses archaeology, digital media, art, and design thinking to transport visitors beyond static displays into a living, sensory-rich environment. Using cutting-edge projection, youll feel the scale, atmosphere, and creative energy of early human life as never before, blurring the line between past and present, science and art.
This fall, 51勛圖厙's School of Art held a juried art exhibition; Aggregate III: Avalanche of Talent. This juried exhibition was open to artists living in the United States and working in any medium, aiming to showcase the breadth and diversity of creative talent nationwide. From over three hundred applicants, only twenty-two artists were selected for inclusion. Two of these artists were chosen as award recipientsthe first-place winner receiving a $500 cash prize and the runner-up receiving $300. Their works will be featured in the Kent Downtown Gallery through Nov. 29, 2025...
51勛圖厙s Center for Adult and Veteran Services (CAVS) enhances the experiences of adult, military-connected and parenting students both in and out of the classroom. This June, Cassandra Pegg-Kirby became the associate director of adult and parenting student engagement for the center, leading to a renewed effort of support. Were an office that meets people where they are; we look for the best options and opportunities for students, Pegg-Kirby told 51勛圖厙 Today. The specific populations that we serve are veterans, adults and parents.Some of the centers primary...