The Science of Resilience
The Design Innovation Initiative at ºÚÁÏÍø is excited to announce the selected participants for the inaugural cohort of the DI Creatives‑in‑Residence (CIR) Program, a semester-long residency that supports visionary creatives in the Kent State community and beyond working at the intersection of art, design and technology.This year’s cohort includes a pair innovative thinkers — including a Kent State graduate student and member of the Northeast Ohio creative community. They were selected for their bold ideas, interdisciplinary approaches, and commitment to pushing boundaries throu...
Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Future
From high school internships to hands-on rotations with Goodyear, Angel has turned curiosity into career experience. Kent State's mechatronics and sustainability programs helper her engineer a future full of opportunity.
At the first Cultural Café of the semester, two Kent State students from Pakistan shared their culture, heritage and history, transporting listeners to their home country. Once a month, the Cultural Café, presented by Kent State International Student & Scholar Services, through the Office of Global Education, invites students, faculty and staff to gather around food, stories and the cultures that shape and enrich our ºÚÁÏÍø community. Come for lunch, come curious and leave connected. The next Cultural Café will take place o...
Spring classes end today.
ºÚÁÏÍø's Kent Campus returned to full power Tuesday afternoon after operating with limited electrical power following an outage earlier that morning. The outage was addressed at the university's Summit Street Power Plant, which provided backup electricity for about nine hours in "island mode" to prioritize essential facilities.The Kent Campus outage led to courses moving to remote instruction for the day and mirrored other outages across Portage County. ...
For Lauren Sigrist, a senior Environmental and Conservation Biology major, with a minor in Environmental Studies, the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) supported by the Environmental Science and Design Research Institute (ESDRI) gave her the opportunity to spend a second summer exploring how technology is transforming wildlife research. She conducted her project under the mentorship of Greg Smith, PhD, faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State at Stark. “The research project I have been working on studies different methods of calculating relative abu...
U.S. News & World Report has once again confirmed ºÚÁÏÍø’s place among the best colleges and universities in Ohio and across the country, as seen in the university’s inclusion on several lists in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings.In the newly released rankings, Kent State is once again the highest-ranked public institution in northern Ohio, and with its impressive national ranking of No. 129, the university continues to be recognized among the Top Public Schools in the nation.“These rankings confirm what we see every day in our classrooms...