"Dare Mighty Things" is the motto of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This message is inscribed above the door to the Henry and Louise Timken Atrium in the newly opened expansion of Kent State's University's College of Aeronautics and Engineering Building.
It is abridged from a quote from President Teddy Roosevelt's "Strenuous Life" speech, delivered in Chicago in April 1899: "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure ... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
Photos by Matthew C. Brown, junior photography major, with University Communications and Marketing
The expansion, which received funds from the Timken Foundation of Canton, adds modern, open spaces, walls of windows, classrooms, labs, makerspaces and more than 40,000 square feet to the facility. The project broke ground in 2021 and was completed this summer, in time to receive students for 2023 Fall Semester classes.
Want to see one of YOUR photos in 鈥淚N A FLASH?鈥 Submit your Kent State-related photos to InAFlash@kent.edu and you may see them in a future Kent State Today post. Photos should be framed -horizontally- and include a brief description of what鈥檚 happening in the photo along with when and where it was taken.