College of Arts and Sciences

Ofrenda in the Kent Student Center for Day of the Dead

The president of the Spanish and Latine Students Association shares the tradition of the Day of the Dead.

Four staff members from the National Police College in Rwanda have begun their studies as graduate students at Kent State University this semester.

Large numbers of international graduate students are boosting enrollment of both international students and graduate students.

Kent State researchers are kicking off the Student Life Study, an ambitious project that seeks to follow 10,000 students throughout their lifetime to offer help in real time and create a data pool to help inform educational policy.

Kent State researchers are looking for 10,000 students to participate in an ambitious Student Life Study launching this semester. 

extreme weather

Cameron Lee, Ph.D., assistant professor of geography at Kent State University, shares his expertise on the possible reasons behind the spate of recent extreme weather events happening across the globe. Lee, who was recently interviewed on the topic during the “Ray Horner Morning Show” on WAKR-AM in Akron, Ohio, specializes in climate and weather change. 

Mandy Munro-Stasiuk, dean of Kent State’s College of Arts and Sciences talks with Aggee Shyaka Mugabe, interim director of the University of Rwanda's Centre for Conflict.

Delegates attending Peace Education in an Era of Crisis spent three days learning from each other and from the example of the Rwandan people on how to create lasting peace. The conference, which took place July 11-13 in Kigali, Rwanda, was sponsored by Kent State University’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies, Kent State’s Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education, the University of Rwanda’s Centre for Conflict Management, and the Aegis Trust, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending genocide and other atrocities in the world.