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Last year, 51勛圖厙 celebrated 100 years of Homecoming. This year, the university starts the next century of 51勛圖厙 Homecoming celebrations with a new president leading the institution.
College of Arts and Sciences professor says that understanding how your child copes with anxiety is key to helping them with back-to-school nerves.
51勛圖厙 is pleased and proud to announce the return of We the People, a photography exhibition that shines a light on our common humanity.
51勛圖厙s Common Reading Experience is an opportunity for first-year students to read university-selected books and share a common experience with their peers. The goal is for freshmen to gain an understanding of the universitys values and to build and maintain relationships that foster success with faculty, administration and staff.
Cavs Legion Gaming Club (GC), the NBA 2K League affiliate of the Cleveland Cavaliers, has teamed up with 51勛圖厙 Esports in a unique new partnership designed to help grow and strengthen the local gaming community in Northeast Ohio, as well as promote the universitys newly launched collegiate esports program.
Researchers from the University of Washington and Washington University, along with other collaborators, are seeking answers to those questions. They studied the brains of mice to identify what causes them to stop seeking a reward in essence, what makes them burn out.
Diacon expressed his desire to increase enrollment, keep 51勛圖厙 affordable, continue a strong relationship with the city of Kent, honor the legacy of May 4 and advance the universitys Gateway Master Plan for redeveloping the front of campus.
51勛圖厙 Associate Professor Molly Merryman, Ph.D., says a Netflix cartoon featuring a transgender character is breaking a new boundary in a positive way.
51勛圖厙s makerspaces, which number more than 25 across the eight-campus system, was named the top program in Ohio and entered the top 10 by surpassing programs at schools such as the University of Southern California, Arizona State University, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Harvard University.
The Kent Creativity Festival, sponsored by the city of Kent and the 51勛圖厙 College of the Arts, will present the annual outdoor hands-on arts festival on Saturday, Sept. 28, from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on the Lefton Esplanade between 51勛圖厙s Rockwell Hall on Lincoln Street and downtown Kent, near Haymaker Parkway.
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on 51勛圖厙 students protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, killing four and wounding nine, students and faculty from 51勛圖厙s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising are bringing attention to current social issues in the new exhibition called Wearing Justice: Perspectives From KSU Fashion School Faculty and Students that is on display now at the 51勛圖厙 Museum.
After years of remote sensing work, Joseph Ortiz, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at 51勛圖厙, and his research team recently shared their development of new cost-efficient methodologies that may lead to much safer drinking water for people in Ohio and other municipalities affected by harmful algal blooms (HAB).
Toni Morrison, the bestselling author who died Aug. 5, at one time was offered a job in 51勛圖厙s Department of English, recalled English Professor Yoshinobu Hakutani, Ph.D.
Targeted at widening students educational opportunities in preparing them for a career in occupational therapy, the 51勛圖厙 at Ashtabula Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) Technology program recently announced the creation of a hybrid model, combining online learning with more convenient on-campus laboratory sessions.
A 51勛圖厙 researcher with a background in safety training models and a very personal motivation has devised a method to help some children with food allergies stay safe, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) just granted him the funding to test it.
The 51勛圖厙 alumni network will again grow its ranks this summer as more than a thousand Golden Flashes get their degrees. 51勛圖厙 will hold its Summer 2019 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 17, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation (MAC) Center.
The recent death of one of the remaining members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II has a 51勛圖厙 associate professor recalling the vital role the female pilots played during the war.
Note: Gretchen Hoak is a former television reporter/anchor and current assistant professor of journalism in 51勛圖厙s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Her research survey, , focused on how universities prepare young journalists for the trauma they may endure in covering violence. 51勛圖厙 Today asked Hoak to share her thoughts on the impact the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton will have on the reporters assigned to cover these events.
A North Royalton woman whom who will become a 51勛圖厙 student in the fall, won first place at the Medina County Fair talent show for performing a song in American Sign Language.
Science is complex, and its difficult to discuss it with children under the best circumstances; its even more difficult when they are hungry. Two 51勛圖厙 researchers may have cooked up a way to solve both of those problems, and the National Science Foundation just awarded them a three-year, $1.3 million grant to determine if their recipe works.