Community Impact

Looking for an interesting book to put in your beach bag this summer? The Kent State University Press has plenty of new reads.

Kent State University earned first-place honors in the annual Campus Race to Zero Waste, a nationwide college campus recycling competition.

Drawn to healthcare as a child, Athalia James pursued that passion all the way to a fulfilling career in nursing. 

Speaking out against government corruption and ethnic killings in his home country of Ethiopia made Medhin Dollebo, Ph.D., the target of constant threats and harassment. 

Drawn to healthcare as a child, Athalia James pursued that passion all the way to a fulfilling career in nursing. 

During an April trip to our nation's capital, representatives from Kent State met with U.S. politicians as well as Kent State students and alumni working in national government.

Ready to serve the community from the ground up, Kent State University’s College of Podiatric Medicine welcomed 88 new graduates in its spring Class of 2024.

Kent State University hopes to address the police officer shortage by expanding its police academy to Twinsburg, Ohio, this fall. 

Exuberant celebrations and tears of joy punctuated one of the biggest weekends of the year at Kent State as the university welcomed its spring Class of 2024 graduates. 

Karamu Ya Wahitimu/Celebración De Los Graduados is an annual tradition celebrating all of Kent State's graduating African American, Native American, Latinx, Hispanic and Multiracial undergraduate and graduate students.