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Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ has announced the implementation of a new Clear Bag Policy for all home ticketed events, beginning this fall with the 2026 football season. The policy is designed to enhance venue security, reduce wait times at entry points, and provide a safer environment for fans, guests, and student-athletes.

Is social media making Gen Z less social? The Akron Beacon Journal explored that question in a recent feature centered on Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ Senior Lecturer Aaron Bacue Maguire and his Communication and Conflict Management course in the School of Communication Studies.

Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ will welcome more than 1,000 new graduates to its alumni family during summer commencement on Aug. 8. The ceremony, held at 10 a.m. at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center, will confer 1,010 degrees across associate, bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral and educational specialist levels.

Philip Wagner’s story begins in Northeast Ohio, but the arc of his career has always bent toward Â鶹¾«Ñ¡.

David Costello, Ph.D., professor in Kent State’s Department of Biological Sciences, will use AI and 50 years of river data to help locate critical minerals like copper, cobalt and manganese for a U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission award.

When Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ sophomore Parker Lamy went to see Idina Menzel perform with The Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Center on July 26, she wasn’t expecting to sing a duet onstage with the Broadway star. Fortunately, she was dressed for the occasion.

Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ Professor Pratim Datta, Ph.D., a faculty member in the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship's Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics, was a featured guest on a recent episode of Cybersecurity Today.

Â鶹¾«Ñ¡is introducing a $1,000 scholarship for domestic, prospective first-year undergraduate students who visit in person and enroll at the Kent Campus and eliminating the undergraduate application fee for all domestic, Ohio residents – two new steps to make a college education more accessible and affordable.

Justine Siegal started her journey with Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ before she was even enrolled as a student. She had heard about the sports studies and while she knew she would not be accepted on her test scores alone, she felt her lifelong passion for sports would carry some weight. 

The future of engineering at Â鶹¾«Ñ¡reached an important milestone this spring as the College of Aeronautics and Engineering welcomed its first class of inductees into the Order of the Engineer. 

Congresswoman Emilia Sykes recently toured Â鶹¾«Ñ¡'s airport -- one of Ohio's busiest general aviation hubs and a critical training ground for the university's next generation of aeronautics and engineering leaders. 

As a newly named member of the Summer 2026 cohort for The John and Fonda Elliot Design Innovation Faculty Fellows Program, Minyoung Gil is bridging the gap between historical childhood play and cutting-edge digital fabrication.

Healthcare professionals trained in other countries often find that they need additional training before they are permitted to practice in the United States. For foreign-trained physical therapists and physical therapist assistants, Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ provides a way to bridge that gap.

As you may have noticed, it is hazy outside today and air quality is a concern. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) has issued an Air Quality Alert for the entire state of Ohio.

A Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ alumna has been named one of Ohio's top educators.

When James (Jim) Basford came to study business at Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ in the 1950s, he set in motion a tradition that would span three generations and nearly 500 miles.

Â鶹¾«Ñ¡'s partnership with Rwanda to train the next generation of pilots was recently featured on News 5 Cleveland.