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Global Presence

ESL Students at the John Brown house

A group of international students from Kent State experienced living history on a field trip with the university's English as a Second Language Program. 

Rwandan students at Bob Christy's home

A Kent State staffer's kindness helped international students who were far from their much warmer home weather an Ohio winter. 

Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies Molly Merryman is part of a panel discussion at the Cambridge Union.ersity.

Molly Merryman, Ph.D., associate professor in ºÚÁÏÍø’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies, received a double dose of prestige recently when she was invited to speak at both the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford in England in the same week.

Brunner walking the runway with a model

Senior fashion design student Frances Brunner uses lessons from distinctive fashion program to make her mark.

Graduate student Emily Zhang cooks dumplings as part of a Luna New Year celebration held Feb. 14 in Satterfield Hall.

Satterfield Hall was filled with the sights, sounds and smells of Lunar New Year as ºÚÁÏÍø students gathered Feb. 14 to celebrate and learn to make Asian dumplings.

Fabrizio Ricciardelli shows students around Italy

The Office of Global Education is hosting I Heart Travel Week Feb. 12-16 where students can learn more about education abroad, celebrate current and past students who have studied abroad, and engage with international activities on campus. 

Rwandan students at Bob Christy's home

A Kent State staffer's aunt helped graduate students from Rwanda prepare for their first winter in northeast Ohio. 

Kent State Student-Athletes in Boneza, Rwanda

Kent State staff and student-athletes took a trip at the beginning of 2024 to Boneza, Rwanda, to give of themselves. But they never expected how much they would receive in return.

Kent State graduates

When you hear the word pageant, it likely conjures up images of tiaras, swimsuit competitions and ladies crying as they clutch an armful of roses on a brightly lit stage. But Lorain, Ohio, native and ºÚÁÏÍø alumna Monica Burgett, Ph.D., has triumphed on a pageant circuit that doesn’t include sparkling tiaras or bathing suit competitions. This time, the pageant celebrated contestants for their brilliant minds.

Polynesian island Anuta at dawn in 2013.

Professor Emeritus Richard Feinberg shared images from his research expeditions to the Polynesian island of Anuta.