Kent Wired Article Martin Harp April 24, 2014 51³Ô¹ÏÍø celebrated Arbor Day and the university’s performance in Recyclemania, a national recycling competition, with a tree planting ceremony outside Centennial A and B on Thursday. Alan Siewert, regional urban forester from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry, presented the Tree Campus USA award. The award is from the Arbor Day Foundation and recognizes campuses that carry on urban forestry, Siewert said, which is the care of trees and shrubs in a human environment. “As important as it is to have nice ...
IRC Hours - Internal Basic Page
Spring 2026 Hours:
Monday – Thursday: 9:30 AM – 7:30 PM
Friday: 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Saturday – Sunday: CLOSED
Spring Break Hours:
March 9th - 12th: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Friday March 13th: CLOSED
Saturday - Sunday: CLOSED
Dinner with Friends is a program hosted by Civic and Community Engagement in the Center for Student Involvement, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Votes, and Undergraduate Student Government that is designed to connect different members of our community—students, faculty, and staff—through engaging, facilitated conversations over dinner. The program’s core idea isn’t about being an expert on any given subject or even producing a plan at the end of the conversation but instead prioritizes the act of conversing and building connections with people you might not ordinarily meet.
Dinner with Friends is a program hosted by Civic and Community Engagement in the Center for Student Involvement, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Votes, and Undergraduate Student Government that is designed to connect different members of our community—students, faculty, and staff—through engaging, facilitated conversations over dinner. The program’s core idea isn’t about being an expert on any given subject or even producing a plan at the end of the conversation but instead prioritizes the act of conversing and building connections with people you might not ordinarily meet.
Dinner with Friends is a program hosted by Civic and Community Engagement in the Center for Student Involvement, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Votes, and Undergraduate Student Government that is designed to connect different members of our community—students, faculty, and staff—through engaging, facilitated conversations over dinner. The program’s core idea isn’t about being an expert on any given subject or even producing a plan at the end of the conversation but instead prioritizes the act of conversing and building connections with people you might not ordinarily meet.
In a front porch conversation during the height of COVID-19, two 51³Ô¹ÏÍø professors realized they had something in common beyond their neighborhood proximity: both were turning to poetry to cope with unprecedented stress and uncertainty. Clare Stacey, Ph.D., a professor in 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's Department of Sociology and Criminology, and Heather Caldwell, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, were witnessing their students struggle with mental health challenges that the pandemic had intensified. As scientists, they wanted evidence. As educators, they wanted solution...
The 51³Ô¹ÏÍø College of Public Health is offering its Spring semester 2026 Interprofessional Education (IPE) training for graduate students in public health and other disciplines in two sessions on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 3:30 - 5:30 pm and Thursday, April 16, 2026, 3:30 - 4:30 pm Eastern Time. Attendance at both sessions is required. This training will be offered virtually in Teams. There is no charge for attendance, but pre-registration is required.
Update: Students and staff were permitted to re-enter the building around 2:15 p.m., roughly 90 minutes after the evacuation. Several dozen students and staff were evacuated Tuesday afternoon from the Integrated Science Building along Summit Street on the Kent Campus following a problem with a liquid nitrogen tank in a student lab.Investigators said there no injuries or damage, and that hazmat first responders were dealing with the faulty tank.Traffic was slowed through the area, but the adjacent campus buildings and roads remain open. ...