We hope all of our Golden Flashes had a fantastic and safe Halloween! This spooky season has had a lot of fall-themed events paired with some fun social media content! Let's take a look at our top-performing posts from this October. Instagram Our top Instagram post was a Reel that featured our Golden Flashes students and what they were listening to as they made their way around Kent Campus. This post also featured a spotify playlist of all the songs our Flashes are listening to! View this post on ...
Current and former faculty and alumni have featured art pieces in the new exhibit Now and Then: Seven Decades of Kent State Ceramics. The exhibit focuses on former faculty, notable alumni and a juried selection of alumni from the 70-year history of the Kent State Ceramics Program. You can visit the event at Kent State University’s Downtown Gallery, 141 E. Main St., Kent, Ohio. The exhibit will be on display until Jan. 14 and then will move to Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati to be presented at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference. The entries ...
In recent decades, the game of lacrosse has grown in popularity, especially among the high school and college population. In spring of 2018, the Kent State women’s lacrosse team became the first new women’s Division I sport to be added to the Kent State University roster since women’s golf was added nearly two decades prior. As one might imagine, a new sports team has much to prove, and these collegiate athletes are no different, with attempts to validate themselves both on the field and in the classroom each day. Junior Taylor Monturo and seniors Allison Kortowich and Kenzie...
Tough. Competitive. Relentless. Determined to play in the NFL. That’s Julian Edelman, the former New England Patriots receiver and Kent State University graduate, who is featured in the latest episode of “A Football Life.” The documentary-style series by NFL Films tells the untold stories of the most influential NFL icons. In Episode 4 of Season 11 that premiered Nov. 25 on the NFL Network, “A Football Life” chronicles Edelman’s career, from his beginning in California and taking the junior college route at the College of San Mateo to playing at Kent State, a Division I school in t...
Kent State University at Trumbull's Theatre Program hopes to discover the next generation of great playwrights, actors, and theatrical technicians. The Young Playwrights Festival has been revived for 2023. "Coming off of the pandemic slowed us down last year," Eric S. Kildow, professor and Theatre Director, said. "We know there are talented youth throughout our local communities and with the festival and scholarships, we hope to encourage them to take advantage." Young Playwrights Festival High school juniors or seniors in Trumbull County, or any neighboring county, are invi...
Bobby Makar, a name remembered fondly by students and faculty in the School of Media and Journalism (MDJ), was a storyteller, a compassionate friend and inspiring teacher. He died unexpectedly in November 2020, and since then, more than 100 donations have been made to establish memorial scholarship in his name. Makar earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from MDJ. He went on to become a cherished adjunct faculty member in the digital media production major and made significant contributions to the curriculum. Emeritus Associate Professor David Smeltzer, who knew Makar as bot...
The Women's Center, in collaboration with Wick Poetry, School of Peace and Conflict Studies, May 4th Visitor Center, The Society of Global Cultures and the May 4th Task Force will be hosting a discussion about the protests in Iran. The conversation will feature Dr. Mahtab Tehrani, who earned her bachelor's degree and PhD in neurobiology from Kent State and is now a post-doc at Northeast Ohio School of Medicine as well as Fatemeh (Goli) Kavoosi who is a current first-year student at Kent State. We will learn more about what is happening in Iran, discuss how the denial of human rights in Ir...
Hi, Drupalites, As the holiday break approaches, your Drupal 9 transition team remains hard at work. Thank you to those of you who participated in our recent user validation sessions. Those findings enabled us to make many project improvements. As a result, the project will follow these next steps. Soft Content Freeze Returns TONIGHT The soft content freeze starts Nov. 30 at midnight. We apologize for the short notice. Please know this is because we are striving to launch Dec. 11 while website traffic is lower than normal. Remember, you can still make criti...
The annual Robert G. McGruder Distinguished Lecture and Awards Program honors and celebrates two individuals who express a passion and do above-and-beyond work to exemplify diversity in the journalism field. Named after Robert G. McGruder, a Kent State alumnus and trailblazer in diversifying journalism, the event returned after a pandemic hiatus on Oct. 12, 2022, and honored two distinguished professionals in the field. Maurice Newman, president of NorthCoast Media and FilmGroup Inc., received the Diversity in Media Distinguished Leadership Award. Newman has frequently partnered ...
Public relations major Kristyn Hibbett, ‘23, recently earned a scholarship to attend a national summit on diversity, equity and inclusion in public relations in Chicago. The 2022 Plank Center Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Summit and Milestones in Mentoring Gala took place on Nov. 3, 2022, and Hibbett was one of 18 scholarship recipients from across the country who attended. There, she got to network with public relations corporations, companies and executives. She also attended four sessions that focused on the progression of public relations and how far the i...