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Annie (Phuong) Tran is living her dream at �鶹��ѡ at Tuscarawas. An engineering technology student, Annie and her mother, Nhung Quan, are from Vietnam and have been in the states for the past five years. While completing an internship with the �鶹��ѡTuscarawas Makerspace in the Academic Learning Commons for her associate degree in computer science at Columbus State last year, Tran soon realized that she had found a new home and transferred to the Tuscarawas Campus.   “We are so excited to have Annie transfer to the Tuscarawas Campus,” said Cherie Bronkar, Kent St...

While the daily news is full of tumultuous conversations about Russia and China, �鶹��ѡ has been helping some area high school students learn to converse in Russian and Chinese to facilitate greater global understanding and a less contentious tomorrow. Kent State’s Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences received federal funding for the 12th consecutive year to host the fully immersive STARTALK Summer Foreign Language Academy this past summer. Twenty students from Northeast Ohio learned Russian or Chinese language a...

Love, loss and hope. These are three critical elements Maria Jacobs brings – along with her considerable professional experience – to the �鶹��ѡ community. Jacobs is a part-time instructor in the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music and a nationally known jazz singer. “Every day that I teach, I learn a tremendous amount,” Jacobs said. “Students come in with ideas and goals for not only their voices, but also knowledge of the ‘Great American Songbook’ and music theory. It brings me immeasurable joy to see their faces light up when they love a song I introduce for the first time.” Ja...

On Saturday, September 21, 2019, the �鶹��ѡ LGBTQ+ Center participated in the annual Homecoming Parade, as well as hosting the fourth annual Homecoming TailGAYte at Bricco Kent. Around 20 students, faculty and staff members marched in the Parade, and passed out rainbow bead necklaces as well as information about the upcoming Rainbow Run fundraiser. The TailGAYte event was co-sponsored by the LGBTQ+ Center and the KSU LGBTQ+ Alumni Chapter. The event brought together nearly 100 attendees, representing a mix of current students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members. Als...

�鶹��ѡ Police arrested Christopher Eugene Clark, age 21, of Newton Falls, Ohio, for gross sexual imposition, assault and obstructing official business in connection to an incident that occurred Tuesday morning near the fitness track behind DeWeese Health Center on the Kent Campus. Clark is not a �鶹��ѡstudent. At approximately 10 a.m., a female student was walking on the west side of the fitness track. A white male about six feet tall with dark shorter hair and facial scruff approached the female and pulled her lower garments down. The female fell during the encounter, s...

Even �鶹��ѡ’s highest-ranking officials can experience a tug on their loyalties when the Golden Flashes take on their alma maters in athletic contests. President Todd Diacon, his wife, Moema Furtado, and head football coach Sean Lewis all will experience that dual loyalty on Saturday when �鶹��ѡfaces the University of Wisconsin-Madison at noon at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison. Diacon and Furtado hold graduate degrees from UW-Madison and met at the university more than 30 years ago. Lewis earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural science from UW-Madison in 2007 and p...

*For media planning purposes, �鶹��ѡ is providing this monthly email that outlines all planned events for the upcoming month related to the 50th commemoration of May 4. For the latest updates on events, visit www.kent.edu/may4kentstate50/event-schedule. ‘PTSD: From May 4 Through Today’ Panel Discussion (Oct. 2, Kent Student Center Kiva) �鶹��ѡ alumna and registered nurse Pat Gless will share her story of May 4 as part of a panel discussion titled “PTSD: From May 4 Through Present Day” during the �鶹��ѡCollege of Nursing’s May 4 Commemoration event. The pa...