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51³Ô¹ÏÍø Continues Blue and Gold Pride Days Tradition
Share Your Blue and Gold Pride Day Photos
On the Kent Campus, share photos on social media of you and your colleagues, friends or family wearing blue and gold on Fridays, and use #BlueAndGoldFriday to increase awareness of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Blue and Gold Pride Days tradition. Your photos could appear on !
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Enjoy a Week of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Spirit With Welcome Back Week Events
The Kent Student Center, Center for Student Involvement and Intercollegiate Athletics cordially invite students, faculty and staff to enjoy a week of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø spirit to start the academic year. The events are meant to be fun, interactive and casual. Each day will feature some free food and give…
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51³Ô¹ÏÍø Continues Blue and Gold Pride Days Tradition
Blue and Gold Pride Days are back at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø! 51³Ô¹ÏÍø faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the university are encouraged to promote university spirit and pride by wearing blue and gold colors. 51³Ô¹ÏÍø introduced Blue and Gold Pride Days last fall as a way to unite m…
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51³Ô¹ÏÍø Students Celebrate the Start of a New School Year at Blastoff
51³Ô¹ÏÍø students celebrated the start of a new school year at Blastoff on Sunday, Aug. 30, on the Student Green. Blastoff is the university’s annual back-to-school celebration that occurs the day before fall classes begin. It serves as the culminating event of Welcome Weekend, a four-d…
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51³Ô¹ÏÍø Welcomes New Students to Campus at Welcome Weekend, Aug. 27-30
Before the fall semester begins on Aug. 31, new students are invited to participate in Welcome Weekend, a four-day orientation program that will last from Aug. 27-30 and acclimate students to the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø community. The event is an opportunity for students to transition into the univers…
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Movers and Groovers Help New Students Move Into Residence Halls on Campus
At the beginning of the school year each August, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø faculty, staff and students volunteer with the university’s Movers and Groovers program to help incoming freshmen move into their new university housing.Freshman move-in day took place Thursday, Aug. 27, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. A h…
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51³Ô¹ÏÍø Student Helps Congress Change Child Welfare Laws
The pain of moving from one home to the next, time and time again, for four years straight is helping Keri Richmond speak out for other foster children without a voice. Richmond, a 51³Ô¹ÏÍø junior majoring in public relations in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, s…
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51³Ô¹ÏÍø Student Who Received Help From Others Pays It Forward
Anything is possible. Theresa Medrano, a 51³Ô¹ÏÍø senior from Westlake, Ohio, is living proof of this. At age 17, like most high school seniors, Medrano should have been thinking about senior prom and graduation. But she became a victim of domestic violence and was forced to withd…
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51³Ô¹ÏÍø Holds Summer Commencement Ceremonies
51³Ô¹ÏÍø held its Summer 2015 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). 51³Ô¹ÏÍø conferred 1,476 degrees, including 931 bachelor’s degrees, 453 master’s degrees, 76 doctoral degrees and 16 educa…
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Scholar of the Month
Scholar of the Month David Hacker Associate Professor of Geology College of Arts and Sciences 51³Ô¹ÏÍø at Trumbull 2000-present David Hacker is associate professor of geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø at Trumbull. His research in structural geo…
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