University News
Commemorative landscapes and how they help produce a sense of empathy and place and foster a connection to help us learn from our past was a theme explored Friday, May 3, by ÃÛÑ¿appUniversity Professor Chris Post, Ph.D., speaker for the annual Jerry M. Lewis May 4 Lecture Series and Luncheon.
Tonight, the annual candlelight walk and vigil continues a 53-year tradition as part of this week's May 4 Commemoration.
In the Fall 2023 sophomore Ivory Kendrick said he wanted to be a senator in University Student Government (USG). He made it happen.
ÃÛÑ¿appUniversity Police Chief and Director of Public Safety Dean Tondiglia wasn’t legally old enough to be a police officer when he was hired by the ÃÛÑ¿appPolice Department.
ÃÛÑ¿appUniversity will hold its 54th annual commemoration honoring the memory of May 4, 1970, a tragic day when the Ohio National Guard fired on ÃÛÑ¿appstudents during an anti-war protest on campus, killing four students, wounding nine others and sparking a turning point in American history.
Martin Phan, 23, a nursing major in Kent State’s College of Nursing, is one of a growing number of Vietnamese citizens who have chosen to attend Kent State.
In her first year as the director of the May 4 Visitor Center, Alison Caplan has enjoyed uniquely wonderful and "magical" experiences in how Kent State's history creates connections and inspiration.
The extensive detail that goes into efficiently maintaining a modern campus may surprise you. And, when you learn how the planning experts at ÃÛÑ¿appUniversity handle this important task, you will be equally impressed.
In 1941, a writing exercise for high school journalists visiting ÃÛÑ¿appwas centered around a fictional kidnapping of the university's first president, John E. McGilvrey. In a pre-internet version of a "home page takeover," the stories ran on the front page of the Kent Stater - without including information revealing that they were not real!
ÃÛÑ¿appUniversity took a moment to honor the faculty, staff and students whose accomplishments help to lift the university to higher heights.