The Spring 2026 Nursing Job and Career Fair on March 23 welcomed 20 hospital and healthcare facilities from around Northeast Ohio and beyond to meet with students from Kent State University's College of Nursing.    About 200 nursing students came to the event in Henderson Hall on the Kent Campus and explored opportunities for job placements and summer internships.   Special thanks to Mariah Gibbons, marketing and public relations communication specialist, Kent State University College of Nursing for sharing these photos.Want to see YOUR photos in ...

When David Jones graduated from Kent State University at Ashtabula in December 2022 with a degree in information technology and computer networking, his career plans were straightforward. He expected to work in IT building systems, managing networks and solving technical problems behind the scenes.But just weeks later, he applied for a position that most outside observers would have predicted: executive director of the Conneaut Arts Center.By early 2023, Jones was hired to lead the nonprofit arts organization, located in a 127‑year‑old historic building along Lake Erie. The Arts Center, which ...

Psychological Sciences Professor Karin Coifman, Ph.D., has been named the new director of Kent State University’s Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI).Coifman, who is bringing her years of expertise as one of the university’s top researchers to her new role, told Kent State Today that she was grateful for her new role and excited about the institute’s future.“I look forward to serving all BHRI members and the broader Kent State research community to meet the primary mission of the institute: to support and to drive interdisciplinary and impactful research on brain health,” she said.Coifman i...

For thousands of years, ancient hunters across North America relied on the atlatl — a lever-powered spear-throwing device — to pursue prey. Then, about 1,400 years ago, something changed fast.A new study co-authored by Metin I. Eren, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Kent State University, published in the journal PNAS Nexus, reveals that the bow and arrow swept across western North America roughly 1,400 years ago in a near-simultaneous wave — and in much of the region, it didn't just compete with the atlatl. It wiped it out almost overnight.The research team analyzed 140...