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The Wick Poetry Center at ������ will expand its successful Traveling Stanzas project with $125,000 in new funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of the Knight Arts Challenge. The Knight Arts Challenge funds ideas that engage and enrich Akron through the arts.    Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders is a partnership between the Wick Poetry Center and the Visual Communication Design program at Kent State to facilitate a global conversation through the intimate and inclusive voice of poetry.  The grant will help the ce...

Be a big part of Homecoming 2016 on Oct. 1 by submitting your best ������ design for the official Homecoming 2016 T-shirt contest. The contest is open to all faculty, staff, students and alumni. “We wanted to get the Kent State community involved in Homecoming early this year,” says Joy Wesoloski, Homecoming chair and assistant director for alumni relations. “This is a great way to show your Kent State pride and share your excitement for Homecoming.”   In addition to a $100 Bookstore gift card, the winner will receive 10 guest passes or a one-hour massage from the Stu...

The Kent State Women’s Golf League now has openings for the upcoming season and encourages Kent State women golfers of any ability, whether employed or retired, to join. Tee times begin at 4:45 p.m. on Monday afternoons. The league consists of 10 two-partner teams competing in a friendly atmosphere throughout the summer. The league has been in existence since the 1960s, when a physical education instructor at the university decided he wanted to teach female employees of Kent State how to golf and to enjoy the game. The league continues to this day, golfing nine holes each Mon...

Reduced tuition rate available for those who sign up by April 15 ������’s School of Visual Communication Design will host its annual pre-college design academy, Inspire, which explores all areas of graphic design, from June 20-24. During Inspire, students engage in projects combining basic research tactics, brainstorming and creative thinking, while they envision, innovate and experiment. Working in the disciplines of print design, three-dimensional design, interaction design, photography and illustration, attendees collaborate with other creative students. During this weeklon...

The deadline has been extended for you to help make a difference at ������ by sharing your experiences and observations working at the university. The universitywide climate survey is designed to collect feedback to help create and maintain a healthy, inclusive university that respects individual abilities, differences, needs and potentials.  You now have until Friday, April 8, to take the survey. The information collected from the survey will be used as an important part of the university’s strategic initiatives so it is important to hear from as many individuals as possi...

Fifteen years ago, Bert Crawford could not have imagined spending a summer in Florence, Italy. Now a senior biology major at ������ at Stark, Crawford spent his early years in and out of Cleveland-area foster homes. With a difficult past and an uncertain future, his view of the world was bleak, at best. That changed when he became part of a supportive Canton family. Today, his world seems brighter than ever — and bigger, thanks to five weeks at the Kent State Florence Summer Institute. “I believe everyone has turning points in their life that can help them gain a better perspe...

������’s fourth annual Neuroscience Symposium will cover the latest research findings on “The Neuroscience of The Social Brain” on April 7-8 at the ������ Hotel and Conference Center located in downtown Kent, Ohio. In a keynote address on April 7 at 7:15 p.m., Jacqueline N. Crawley, Ph.D., a world-renowned expert on the use of mouse models to investigate causes and potential treatments for autism from the University of California Davis School of Medicine, will present “Preclinical Discovery of Treatments for Autism.” A reception and poster session will follow. Al...

Brandon Stephens has a passion to serve. For the past three years he has been the president of ������’s PRIDE, a student organization standing for People Respecting Identity, Diversity and Equality. As Stephens gets ready to graduate, he is hoping to work with Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) youth, and those with alcohol dependency. “It’s something that affects the LGBTQ community a lot, and something that means a lot to me as well,” Stephens says. Like Stephens, Yubi Orengo also is a member of PRIDE. She is getting ready to graduate and enter the field of ...

Senior applied communication studies student Megan Carrasco will be presenting her thesis work, “The Ideal Millennial Working Woman: A Thematic Analysis of How Professional Identity, Image and Career are Constructed Online,” at the upcoming National Honors Conference. The conference is scheduled for April 1-3 in in Richmond, Indiana at Indiana University East. The conference is an opportunity for Honors students from the Mid-East Honors region to share their research. For Carrasco, the presentation will be a result of work from the past two years. “I have been writing my thesis for the p...

Senior global communication studies student Rachel Morrell will be presenting her senior thesis “The Passion of Christ and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement at ������: An application of Burke’s Guilt Redemption Cycle and Smelser’s Theory of Collective Behavior” at the Central States Communication Association Convention on Friday, April 15. This presentation will be a culmination of many months of hard work. “I started working on my senior thesis in the Spring 2015 semester because the Honors Senior Thesis Project is a three semester commitment,” Morrell said. “I worked over th...