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ºÚÁÏÍø mascot Flash helps to motivate students in Sarah Smiley's class during a class project. Smiley modeled her class after "The Amazing Race."

ºÚÁÏÍø at Salem Associate Professor Sarah Smiley, Ph.D., adopted a novel idea in teaching her geography class during the 2015 Fall Semester.

A student in ºÚÁÏÍø’s Fashion School works on a project in a design classroom. A new partnership between Kent State and Akron Public Schools will allow Akron students to immerse themselves in innovative design areas including fashion.

ºÚÁÏÍø is offering special expertise and resources to high school students attending to include immersive opportunities with the university’s fashion, arts and architecture programs.

Kent State’s Danniel Thomas-Dodd, who captured the 2017 NCAA Division I Women’s Shot Put National Championship, has been nominated for the 2017 NCAA Woman of the Year award.

ºÚÁÏÍø track and field’s  has been named one of the Mid-American Conference’s two nominees for the 2017 NCAA Woman of the Year award.

A student looks at artwork for sale in Kent State’s ARTshop, operated by the School of Art.

Tucked into a windowed gallery overlooking the bustling intersection of the Lefton Esplanade at Terrace Drive, the new ARTshop, operated by the ºÚÁÏÍø School of Art, might be small in size but the thinking behind it is big-picture.

Students walk to class at ºÚÁÏÍø at Tuscarawas.

ºÚÁÏÍø at Tuscarawas is offering a new degree to meet the need for professionals and entrepreneurs in the high-demand and rapidly changing agricultural industry.

Terrie Adams, special assistant in the College of Nursing, went with members of her family on a cruise to Nassau, St. Thomas, and St. Kitts.

Due to popular demand, e-Inside is running this final feature of employees’ favorite summer vacation photos for 2017. Entries for 2017 are now closed.

ºÚÁÏÍø student Andrew Badger holds up a poster from his anime collection.

If you do not know much about the world of animation, then you probably have not heard of anime. But chances are you have seen it or at least passed over it while channel surfing.

A graduate at ºÚÁÏÍø’s Summer 2016 Commencement ceremony waves to his family after receiving his diploma.

ºÚÁÏÍø will hold its Summer 2017 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 19, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center.

ºÚÁÏÍø at Salem English Lecturer James Winter participated in the prestigious Sirenland Writers Conference in Italy.

James Winter, an English lecturer at ºÚÁÏÍø at Salem, was one of 10 writers selected for the Sirenland Writers Conference, a fiction writing workshop, in Italy.

Josiah Murphy, secretary, Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies, sent this photo during a road trip on Route 80.

In this final feature, e-Inside presents some of ºÚÁÏÍø employees’ favorite summer vacation photos.