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“Kent State’s ABSN program was more desirable than other programs I had considered because I could complete it in 15 months, much quicker than most schools,” said Byrd. “Many of the nurses on my floor raved about Kent State’s nursing program, too. When I spoke with an advisor, they were also very helpful in decerning which program would suit my needs best, which also solidified my decision.”

Before Mike Jackson, ’78, returned to �鶹��ѡ as a professional-in-residence, he worked for renowned brands like General Motors and Coors on advertising campaigns, including Super Bowl ads. Today, he teaches advertising in the School of Media and Journalism and is faculty advisor for the �鶹��ѡchapter of American Advertising Federation (AAF). Following Super Bowl LVIII, he provided insight into the advertising winners and losers for 2024.

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

Kent State's production of "Rent" runs from Feb. 16-25 at the E. Turner Stump Theatre.

The student initiative, Sister Circle, recently won the gold for the category “Fraternity and Sorority Life, Leadership, Student Activities, Student Union, and related.” Sister Circle, housed under the E. Timothy Moore Student Multicultural Center (The Moore Center), supports the personal, social, cultural, and professional development of women of color at �鶹��ѡ.

Two Media and Journalism students and Associate Professor David Foster are bringing a fresh perspective to a late 1960s photo collection focused on Black student life at �鶹��ѡ.  Lafayette Tolliver, a 1971 alumnus who pursued a degree in photojournalism, was an active photographer for Black student organizations during his university years. In 2014, he generously donated more than a thousand photographs to Kent State.

Growing up as the youngest with three older brothers, sports were always a big part of my life. And out of all the sports I played, basketball was the one that stuck with me.

Meet Virginia Doherty, a junior triple major of history, art history and economics with minors in marketing and ancient, medieval and renaissance studies from Pittsburgh.

In a celebration of Black History Month, �鶹��ѡ Culinary Services has transformed the month’s menu into a melting pot of different dishes. Led by Executive Chef Edward Shawn Hardin Sr., Culinary Services is offering a unique menu built upon students’ family recipes, highlighting the diversity of Black history.

The Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center was filled with splashes of pink at the Play4Kay Golden Flashes women's basketball game. 

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

Members of Kent State's fashion community participated in a runway show to benefit Ronald McDonald House.

According to Hillary Stone, industry liaison and professor in �鶹��ѡ’s School of Fashion, our preference for comfort during the pandemic has changed the way we dress out in public now too. 

Zachery Pfouts’s journey to the job of his dreams looked more like a mountain trail than a straight path. Along the way, Pfouts found �鶹��ѡ at Tuscarawas. The campus’s distinctive Bachelor of Science and Engineering Technology degree turned out to be the key to his success.  

�鶹��ѡ will redesign many aspects of the university’s operations and organization as it undertakes careful belt-tightening over the next four years, President Todd Diacon shared Feb. 13 during his monthly Talking With Todd webcast.

�鶹��ѡ graduate student Angelique Wong’s designs were judged the best in show at “Haute for the House,” a runway show the School of Fashion staged as part of a fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northeast Ohio.

Feb. 3, 2023 – A date that forever changed lives of residents and businesses in East Palestine, Ohio. A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed and caught fire. Of the 38 cars that derailed, 11 contained toxic chemicals including vinyl chloride, a known carcinogen, butyl acrylate, and other chemicals. First responders, most of which were volunteer fire departments, were immediately called into action.   

Puppy love was in the air Tuesday, Feb. 13, on the second floor of the Student Center where Paws for a Cause hosted its annual puppy kissing booth.  

�鶹��ѡ’s Wick Poetry Center is collaborating on a new global poem to pay tribute to the liquid that sustains life.

“Dear Body of Water,” Wick’s newest collaboration with the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center, invites writers to speak to the bodies of water that have shaped their lives.

Graduate student Sara Gallimore and her husband Nick recently won an award for iHungry, a smart fridge and mobile app pairing that works to catalog your food and revolutionize the weekly grocery shopping experience.