Remote learning means students can study and take their exams virtually -- make that literally -- anywhere.  Recent graduate Jake Mansfield, BA '21, shared these photos from his senior year in which he paused to take an exam while rock climbing in the New River Gorge in Southern West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains.  An experienced rock climber and certified instructor, Mansfield would often do his class work and take exams while out on a pitch; most of the climbs at the New River Gorge are 30-120 feet in height but others are even higher.  Photos below also ...

In August 2021, 1,000 incoming Kent State students, faculty and staff began a collaborative community effort to implement a social justice quilting project. This initiative stemmed from the Community Engaged Learning (CEL) department's welcome week and was completed in late August 2022. “The students were only given fabric, fabric glue, stencils and cookie cutters,” Louise Ditchey, academic program officer and coordinator for the executive master of the business administrations program at Kent State, said. “Then after a year of hard work, we all created these quilts together.” Ditchey and Ka...

UPDATED 9/19/22: Please note the updated times for the Business Meeting and Committee of the Whole. The original advisory was posted Sept. 8. --------------- The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 10 a.m. in Room 145 of the FedEx Aeronautics Academic Center at the Kent State University Airport, 4020 Kent Road in Stow, Ohio, to consider the recommendations of the standing committees, proposed personnel actions and new business. Trustees will retire into executive session at 8 a.m. to consider specific topics ...

Kent State University’s College of Aeronautics and Engineering (CAE) developed an innovative hybrid fuel cell capacitor that prolongs the flight time of unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs), the first hybrid fuel cell battery capacitor specifically developed for commercial UAVs. The project team, led by Yanhai Du, Ph.D., professor in Kent State’s CAE and principal investigator at Kent State’s Fuel Cell Research Lab, developed a lightweight-high-energy-density onboard power source that enables vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) type aircraft to potentially increase flight time and&nbsp...

Dear Members of the Kent State University Community, Kent State Police received a report of a racial slur visible in a restroom in the Kent Campus University Library. It is not certain when it was written, but its appearance serves as a reminder that racism, intolerance and violence, in all of their forms, have no place at Kent State. Our university is committed to its core value of creating a community of kindness and respect, and the recent appearance of this symbol of hate tells us again of the work still ahead of us. At any time, students in need, or individuals who are concerned abo...

div.pane-node-field-article-sub-title div.pane-content { display:none !important;} h1 { font-size:2em !important;}   By:  Haifa Alsaab, Staff Writer, Division of Information Technology Donald (Wayne) Fincher is an Applications Developer who started as a student developer, landed a graduate assistantship and then eventually became a full-time employee for SDI.  Wayne first Joined the SDI team “to satisfy the requirement for professional work experience". He has been writing code for 30 years. But until his student developer experience with SDI, he could not list...