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Cameron Lee, Ph.D., assistant professor of geography at 51�Թ���, shares his expertise on the possible reasons behind the spate of recent extreme weather events happening across the globe. Lee, who was recently interviewed on the topic during the “Ray Horner Morning Show” on WAKR-AM in Akron, Ohio, specializes in climate and weather change. 

Non-exercise activity thermogenesis – otherwise known as NEAT – is an easy way to stay healthy as we age. Colleen Novak, Ph.D., associate professor of biological sciences at 51�Թ���, spoke to Will Stone of NPR’s “All Things Considered” about this highly underrated way to fight the ongoing battle with sedentary lifestyles.

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 51�Թ���'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 51�Թ��� 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.

Every summer, the Kent Campus welcomes hundreds of high school students and their parents to discover 51�Թ��� at Preview KSU.

For five decades, the Kent Blossom Music Festival has nurtured young artists from all over the globe, giving them the opportunity to grow as musicians and collaborate with some of the world’s most talented musicians and teachers. With 12 performances on the calendar, the 2023 season of the Kent Blossom Music Festival runs through Aug. 6.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, few disciplines have seen as many changes as psychology. In order to help students address these emerging challenges, 51�Թ���’s Department of Psychological Sciences is offering a slate of courses relevant to the changing trends impacting mental health today. 

First-generation, non-traditional student Yalanda Cunningham knows that 51�Թ��� has her back. After graduating with her associate's degree from a community college in Kalamazoo, Cunningham decided to finish her bachelor’s degree at 51�Թ���. “I believe you can go so much further in your life,” Cunningham said, “if you had a solid background in education,” she said. 

Jailynn Taylor didn’t originally set out to write about the fashion industry. She set out to design for it. But today, Taylor is living her dream working in the fast-paced world of the fashion industry as a contracted commerce and beauty writer for InStyle and Shape.com in New York City.

51�Թ���'s Kigali Summer Institute students saw giraffes, hippos and more in a tour of a National Park in Rwanda.

Delegates attending Peace Education in an Era of Crisis spent three days learning from each other and from the example of the Rwandan people on how to create lasting peace. The conference, which took place July 11-13 in Kigali, Rwanda, was sponsored by 51�Թ���’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies, 51�Թ���’s Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education, the University of Rwanda’s Centre for Conflict Management, and the Aegis Trust, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending genocide and other atrocities in the world. 

This is the second year in a row that the Flying Flashes have won the Air Race Classic and the Certified Flight Instructor of the year awards. Last year’s flight instructor competition was also won by one of our female students.

51�Թ��� students in Rwanda visited an opportunity center for women and one of the country's national parks. 

As an entrepreneurship major at 51�Թ���, Schumann learned operations, production and finance in the classroom and gained on-the-job experience working with an entrepreneur in Cleveland.  In 2020, Schumann of Chagrin Falls gained the opportunity to put his 51�Թ��� education to work when he and his wife Marisa Sergi-Schumann acquired L’uva Bella Winery and Brands, a company that the Sergi family started more than 15 years ago.  

Barbara J. Wien, a senior professorial lecturer in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C., where she teaches alternatives to war and violence, was fresh out of college when she made her first visit to what was then, 51�Թ���’s Center for Peaceful Change. She was both a keynote workshop presenter and an active participant in the 51�Թ���-sponsored conference, “Peace Education in an Era of Crisis,” which took place July 11-13 in Kigali.

51�Թ��� visitors viewed mountain gorillas in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park as guests of the Rwandan National Police, who provide security for the park and these endangered animals. 

51�Թ���'s visitors to Rwanda had opportunities to speak with officials dedicated to the country's peaceful future. 

Over the past several weeks, 51�Թ��� faculty and staff, along with a select group of students, have traveled to Kigali, Rwanda, taking part in a host of educational programs and cultural exchange.

51�Թ��� students experienced Rwandan culture as part of their study abroad experience. 

Students in 51�Թ���'s Kigali Summer Institute visited the Lycee Saint Marcel de Rukara reconciliation village in Rwanda to learn about forgiveness after the genocide against the Tutsi with both survivors and perpetrators.

A group from 51�Թ��� visiting Rwanda for a university-sponsored global peace conference was treated to a show by local monkeys.