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Update Recycle Eclipse Glasses

UPDATE: How to Recycle Your Eclipse Glasses

After the eclipse, Flashes can do their part to promote sustainability  by recycling their eclipse glasses for use by viewers of future eclipses around the world. 

Tags: Global Reach, Global Impact, Organizational Sustainability, Research & Science, Community & Society, Community Impact, Total Solar Eclipse, Main Street Kent, Portage Country, City of Kent

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Fork in the Road Food Truck on the Student Green

IN A FLASH: Food Truck Wednesdays are Back!

The 黑料网 Spring Food Truck Series begins on Risman Plaza April 3 and continues each Wednesday through May 1. 

Tags: Student Life, University Culinary Services, Risman Plaza, Community & Society, Community Impact

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Teal Tuesdays Photo

IN A FLASH: Teal Tuesdays in April

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Kent State's Center for Sexual and Relationship Violence Support Services (SRVSS) has a schedule of activities to promote awareness and understanding. Wearing teal on Teal Tuesdays is a way to show support. 

Tags: Center for Sexual and Relationship Violence Support Services, Community & Society, Community Impact

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Holi 2024

The Festival of Love, Colors and Spring

In late March, groups of Indian students on campus celebrated the popular and significant Hindu festival of Holi. 

Tags: Arts & Culture, Global Reach, Global Impact, Community & Society, International Students, India, Student Organizations, University Culinary Services

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Cassandra Pegg-Kirby, director of Kent State's Women's Center.

Advancing the Cause of Equity at 黑料网

Despite her multitude of duties as a director of 黑料网鈥檚 Women鈥檚 Center, Cassandra Pegg-Kirby remains focused on one key mission: Keeping the center open and relevant. 鈥淲omen鈥檚 centers are not always thought of as necessary since women are in the majority now,鈥 she said.

Tags: Student Life, Community & Society, Profiles, Diverse Kent State, Community Impact, Students First

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Leadership Portage County tours the DI Hub

IN A FLASH: Providing Insight into Innovation

Community leaders toured Kent State's DI Hub to learn about how the university fosters innovation and collaboration across campus and across disciplines. 

Tags: DI Hub, Design Innovation, Community & Society, Community Impact, Office of University Outreach and Engagement

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Art from Graphic Content exhibition

A Closer Look at 鈥楪raphic Content鈥

Alison Caplan, director of the May 4 Visitors Center, provides an up close look at some of the items in the center's "Graphic Content: The Comics of May 4" exhibition.  She also share stories about the art and the artists that created it.  

Tags: May 4, Arts & Culture, Alumni, May 4 Visitors Center, Community & Society, taylor hall, Nationally Distinctive

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Meghan Schwind Banner

'They can do anything and be anything'

As a spouse, a mother and a member of Kent State's LGBTQ+ community, Meghan Schwind shares her thoughts for Women's History Month on challenges women face and her hopes for rising generations of women.

Tags: Women's History Month, LGBTQ+ Center, LGBTQ+, Gen Z, Diverse Kent State, Community & Society, Community Impact, Profiles

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Dress up for Downs 2024 Fashion Event

IN A FLASH: Dressing up for Downs

Dress Up for Downs, a Kent State student organization recently held its 8th annual fashion show fundraiser . The event, themed "Hollywood Heroes," featured a runway show with designs by Kent State fashion design students and raised over $3000 for the Down Syndrome Association of Northeast Ohio. 

Tags: Dress up for Downs, Student Organizations, Diverse Kent State, Arts & Culture, Community & Society, Community Impact, Fashion School, College of the Arts

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Salary Negotiation Workshop

Fighting the Salary Gap With Confidence

Students filed into the conference room in the Williamson House on Friday, March 15, to learn about how to negotiate pay and combat the gender wage gap.

Tags: Students First, Student Life, Community & Society

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