Air Race Classic Participants and coaches prepare to depart.

The Flying Flashes have won the 2023 Air Race Classic, claiming back-to-back titles! The team, consisting of Laura Wilson and Peyton Turner, brought home four titles: 1st place Overall Competition Class, 1st place Overall Collegiate Challenge Award, 1st place Fastest Cessna Award, and 1st place Fastest Women in Aviation International (WAI) Team. The competition spans 4 days and includes 10 legs of flying, covering a grand total of 2,685 miles from Grand Forks, North Dakota to Homestead, Florida.  Wilson and Turner competed alongside 42 other teams, of which 18 were other collegiate...

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Faculty are reminded to submit Ph.D. regalia rentals by Jul. 13. Even if you are unsure whether or not you will attend graduation, please submit your order to guarantee that you have one for the ceremony. Payment will be taken at time of pickup the week of commencement. ...

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Online final grading for Summer 2023 (POT S1) begins Tuesday, Jul. 11, 2023, via FlashFAST. Grading is also now available for any Summer 2023 course section that was flexibly scheduled. The deadline for grading submission is 11:59 pm on Sunday, Jul. 16. Any final grades for Summer 2023 courses not reported in FlashFAST by the grades processing deadline will have to be submitted using the Grade Change Workflow. These Summer 2023 courses will be available in the Workflow on Tuesday, Jul. 18, 2023. Submit Final grades using Final Grades roster To submit final grades via the Final Grades ros...

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Our Wellness partner, WeightWatchers®, makes it easier to make a change All Medical Mutual members get an exclusive discount of 50% off the retail price of WeightWatchers membership.* Learn more at WW.com/mmomembers. As an added bonus, if you sign up by July 31, you’ll also get a $25 Shop credit plus free shipping on your order.** Get inspired by this member’s journey When she joined in 2021, Lauren P. was looking for a way to build healthy habits, without missing out. “Before WeightWatchers, tying my shoes was a struggle. I was fatigued and found myself easily out of brea...

Stark Campus S23 Dean's List

Kent State University at Stark has announced its Dean’s List and President’s List for the spring 2023 semester.  Requirements for the Dean’s List include a 3.40 grade point average or above for the spring 2023 semester and at least 12 letter-graded (A, B, etc.) credit hours completed by the end of the semester. President’s List criteria are a 4.00 grade point and at least 15 letter-graded credit hours completed by the end of the semester. A part-time Dean's List follows the President's and Dean's List.   SPRING 2023 PRESIDENT'S* & DEAN'S LIST The fo...

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Online final grading for Summer 2023 (POT W1) begins Tuesday, Jun. 27, 2023, via FlashFAST. Grading is also now available for any Summer 2023 course section that was flexibly scheduled. The deadline for grading submission is 11:59 pm on Sunday, Jul. 2. Any final grades for Summer 2023 courses not reported in FlashFAST by the grades processing deadline will have to be submitted using the Grade Change Workflow. These Summer 2023 courses will be available in the Workflow on Tuesday, Jul. 4, 2023. Submit Final grades using Final Grades roster To submit final grades via the Final Grades roste...

  Félix Latimer is a Junior and majors in environmental and conservation biology with a concentration in environmental policy and management. During his time in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program, he worked alongside Dr. Andrea Case, Ph.D., and Dr. Christopher L. Blackwood, Ph.D., studying geographical data about subspecies of lobelia across the United States. Félix is hoping to use this experiment as a reference for how research is conducted on the ground for a future career as a policy analyst on environmental issues in the Environmental Protect...

On June 6th, Visionary Training Resources (VTR) announced its new partnership with the College of Aeronautics and Engineering. This partnership will give Kent State University students access to VTR’s incredible flight training technology to prepare them for further simulator training. The partnership with Kent State will allow students to prepare for simulator training with the Boeing 737 and Airbus 320 versions of the FlightDeckToGo™ product programmed into VTR’s Pico Neo 3 headsets.  VTR’s program, FlightDeckToGo™, incorporates eye tracking technology, access to pre-recorded tips fr...

Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center director performs at Nobel Prize Summit

"Poetry and science are not opposites, they’re actually allies," said David Hassler, director of Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center.  Hassler paraphrases American poet Jane Hirshfield, who, in 2017, contacted him to collaborate on a Poets for Science project, which is now an interactive exhibit and writing invitation housed at the Wick Poetry Center on the Kent Campus. The pair recently performed together at the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit: “Truth, Trust and Hope,” in Washington, D.C.  Poetry and science, Hassler said, come together to create meani...

How The Backspace Key Taught A Global Digital Leader To Learn, Correct And Move Forward

Kent State University alumna Sonia Karkare, BS ‘93, MS ‘96, has worked on three continents, served in one of the largest nonprofits in the U.S. that leads global digital transformations in the humanitarian sector, promoted women in STEM fields and worked as a professor, a public speaker and a philanthropist.   After 27 years of travel and pivoting to various international endeavors, Karkare, a native of Mumbai, India, is now back at Kent State as an adjunct faculty member with the Ambassador&...

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