The Medlife Movement at Kent State

MEDLIFE is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that partners with low-income communities in Latin America and Africa to improve their access to medicine, education, and community development projects.
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Old letter

What started as just a tip from an archivist quickly captured the attention and imagination of a Kent State University professor and their student.Senior Psychology Major Alex Moir and Lauren Vachon, an assistant professor of LGBTQ studies, realized that what they were reading was a 130-year-old love letter between two women, a rare artifact of queerness from that era....

Students walking across Risman Plaza.

On Feb. 26, Kent State University notified the Kent Campus community about an unverified threat at Kent Hall that was deemed to be not credible. Kent State is not alone. Schools and institutions across the country have been receiving false threats. Recently, unsubstantiated threats were received by Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Northern Illinois University, the University of Pennsylvania and many others.The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in an August 2023 article that the number of bomb threats against higher education institutions spiked in 2022, a roughly 450% increase compa...

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Charles Marin

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Charles Marin
Graduate Student
BBA Entrepreneurship, '21 

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