COVID-19 HUB

Wash Your Hands Frequently

Kent State is just seven weeks away from move in. To count down the return of students, faculty and staff for the start of the fall semester, the university will review one Flashes Safe Seven principle each week. This week, we focus on Wash Your Hands Frequently.

Volunteers Dave and Terri Cardy pack and weigh produce to hand out at the Campus Kitchen in Beall Hall. The food is mostly donated by Trader Joe’s locations in the Cleveland area.

The Campus Kitchen at , a student-run organization that reclaims food to feed the needy in the Kent area, has had to swiftly switch gears from operating a hot food kitchen to an expanded food pantry.

Students living on the closed Kent State campus resident in the Stopher-Johnson residence hall complex.

When closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March, not all students living on the Kent Campus were able to leave. 

 

J.R. Campbell, executive director of ’s Design Innovation Initiative, tries on a face shield produced by the Kent State team.

Members of ’s Design Innovation Initiative are forging creative collaborations with local and regional organizations and funders as they work toward the production of personal protective equipment (PPE) for first responders battling the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professor teaching in Zoom class in front of tv screens

at Geauga is pleased to announce a $20,000 award from the Lake-Geauga Fund of the Cleveland Foundation toward a student emergency fund and technology advances. The $20,000 grant will be split evenly between the two initiatives.

Members of 's Undergraduate Student Government Painted "Flashes Take Care of Flashes" on the Rock on Front Campus.

The Kent State Emergency Grant Fund is helping students meet financial challenges.

Head Football Coach Sean Lewis on the field.

Today’s Flashes of Inspiration comes from Football’s Head Coach Sean Lewis, who delivers a pep talk about how to make it through uncertain, challenging times.

Kent State Golden Flashes Women's Golf Team and Coach Lisa Strom

Today’s Flashes of Inspiration comes from Lisa Strom, ’s head women’s golf coach, who offers a pep talk to all in the university community struggling under the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wick Poetry Center

Today’s Flashes of Inspiration features David Hassler, director of Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center, who is sharing the poem, “Thank You, Tree.”