Community Impact
100 YEARS AGO AT KENT STATE: Happy Anniversary to The Rock!
For more than a century, "The Rock" on the Kent Campus has been a colorful canvas expressing the changing moods of the community.
IN A FLASH: The Beat Goes On
High school students come to 51³Ô¹ÏÍø each summer for the School of Music's Percussion Camp.
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.