Community Impact
Flaunting Our Foliage
51³Ô¹ÏÍø has been recognized for the 15th consecutive year with the Tree Campus Higher Education recognition (previously called the Tree Campus USA designation).
East Main Street to Get a $25.5M Makeover
A federal grant will help restart a major improvement project for a highly trafficked area of downtown Kent. Changes to East Main Street will include wider sidewalks, bike and pedestrian paths and crossings, and two roundabouts.
Math Camp for High Schoolers Seeks to Ready Future College Students for STEM Jobs in Ohio
51³Ô¹ÏÍø-sponsored math camp helps to prepare high school students for plentiful STEM jobs in Ohio.
Creativity + Technology = Help for Math Teachers Here and Abroad
Teachers from northeast Ohio and from thousands of miles away in sub-Saharan Africa have been learning to create inexpensive math teaching tools thanks to the efforts of some 51³Ô¹ÏÍø professors.
IN A FLASH: Four-Legged Flashes on Campus
51³Ô¹ÏÍø canines and their human companions came to the Kent Campus for the Dog Days of Summer.
IN A FLASH: Balloons and Horses on Campus
Hot air balloons and the Budweiser Clydesdales visited 51³Ô¹ÏÍø at Stark.
Wick Prize Winner Farnaz Fatemi Receives Poet Laureate Fellowship From Academy of American Poets
Farnaz Fatemi, poet laureate of Santa Cruz County, California, was awarded a $50,000 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets that she will use in partnership with 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's Wick Poetry Center to produce a series of teen poetry workshops. Fatemi is an Iranian-American poet and writer and the author of "Sister Tongue," published in 2022 by the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Press. She was the winner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the Wick Poetry Center for a poet's first book of poems.
IN A FLASH: Preview KSU!
Every summer, the Kent Campus welcomes hundreds of high school students and their parents to discover 51³Ô¹ÏÍø at Preview KSU.
Drugs and Behavior: How Societal Trends Impact Addiction
Since the beginning of the pandemic, few disciplines have seen as many changes as psychology. In order to help students address these emerging challenges, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Department of Psychological Sciences is offering a slate of courses relevant to the changing trends impacting mental health today.
Twenty-Five Years of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Connections Made on the Green
Time in nature, the spirit of competition and bonding are just a few of the many benefits of a golf outing. For the past 25 years, the Glenn Davis Golf League has played a vital role in building a deeper sense of community for 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, on and off the green.