Workshops

Meet your classmates and get connected with a Student Success Leader. during this session you will participate in your Common Conversations shared experience. More information can be found at www.kent.edu/commonconversations

To find your location: [ coming soon ]

If your FYE class is remote, this experience will also be remote. This is required for all new first-year students.

 

Meet your classmates and get connected with a Student Success Leader. during this session you will participate in your Common Conversations shared experience. More information can be found at www.kent.edu/commonconversations

Click here to find your location

If your FYE class is remote, this experience will also be remote. This is required for all new first-year students.

 

Meet your classmates and get connected with a Student Success Leader. during this session you will participate in your Common Conversations shared experience. More information can be found at www.kent.edu/commonconversations

To find your location: [ coming soon ]

If your FYE class is remote, this experience will also be remote. This is required for all new first-year students.

 

Meet your classmates and get connected with a Student Success Leader. during this session you will participate in your Common Conversations shared experience. More information can be found at www.kent.edu/commonconversations

To find your location: [ coming soon ]

If your FYE class is remote, this experience will also be remote. This is required for all new first-year students.

 

Meet your classmates and get connected with a Student Success Leader. during this session you will participate in your Common Conversations shared experience. More information can be found at www.kent.edu/commonconversations

To find your location: [ coming soon ]

If your FYE class is remote, this experience will also be remote. This is required for all new first-year students.

 

We’d like to invite transfer students to participate in the Common Conversations! Common Conversations is a shared experience designed for first-year and transfer students to connect through common dialogue around various issues.

New and returning transfer students will have an opportunity to socialize, play games, get some KSU swag and enjoy some delicious Handel's Ice Cream and other treats.

Join Student Success Programs and the Center for Student Involvement at the biggest event and involvement fair of the year, Blastoff! Stop by to meet student organizations, play games, enter to win some cool prizes and meet new friends! You will also have the ability to purchase purchase some of the incredible food from our local food trucks! You don't want to miss this!    

 Stick around after Blastoff! for the official Blastoff! After Party featuring DJ Smilz! The Blastoff! After Party is co-sponsored by your Undergraduate Student Government (USG).

Come tie-dye a free Kent State shirt with the Flash Activities Board!

Meet your classmates and get connected with a Student Success Leader. during this session you will participate in your Common Conversations shared experience. More information can be found at www.kent.edu/commonconversations

To find your location: [ coming soon ]

If your FYE class is remote, this experience will also be remote. This is required for all new first-year students.

 

Meet your classmates and get connected with a Student Success Leader. during this session you will participate in your Common Conversations shared experience. More information can be found at www.kent.edu/commonconversations

Click here to find your location

If your FYE class is remote, this experience will also be remote. This is required for all new first-year students.

 

Meet your classmates and get connected with a Student Success Leader. during this session you will participate in your Common Conversations shared experience. More information can be found at www.kent.edu/commonconversations

To find your location: [ coming soon ]

If your FYE class is remote, this experience will also be remote. This is required for all new first-year students.

 

Meet your classmates and get connected with a Student Success Leader. during this session you will participate in your Common Conversations shared experience. More information can be found at www.kent.edu/commonconversations

To find your location: [ coming soon ]

If your FYE class is remote, this experience will also be remote. This is required for all new first-year students.

 

Meet your classmates and get connected with a Student Success Leader. during this session you will participate in your Common Conversations shared experience. More information can be found at www.kent.edu/commonconversations

To find your location: [ coming soon ]

If your FYE class is remote, this experience will also be remote. This is required for all new first-year students.

 

We’d like to invite transfer students to participate in the Common Conversations! Common Conversations is a shared experience designed for first-year and transfer students to connect through common dialogue around various issues.

New and returning transfer students will have an opportunity to socialize, play games, get some KSU swag and enjoy some delicious Handel's Ice Cream and other treats.

Join Student Success Programs and the Center for Student Involvement at the biggest event and involvement fair of the year, Blastoff! Stop by to meet student organizations, play games, enter to win some cool prizes and meet new friends! You will also have the ability to purchase purchase some of the incredible food from our local food trucks! You don't want to miss this!    

 Stick around after Blastoff! for the official Blastoff! After Party featuring DJ Smilz! The Blastoff! After Party is co-sponsored by your Undergraduate Student Government (USG).

Come tie-dye a free Kent State shirt with the Flash Activities Board!

Fashion Timeline
Jun. 29, 2012

Palmer and Mull Galleries | Sara Hume, Curator
The “Fashion Timeline” showcases the Kent State University Museum’s world-class collection of historic fashions. Encompassing over two centuries of fashion history, this exhibition is designed to show the evolution of styles and silhouettes while contextualizing the pieces with relevant political, technological and cultural developments.

Jun. 28, 2024

"The Hepburn Style: Katharine and her Designers" is now on display at the Kent State University Museum. Throughout the exhibition, you will see the elements of comfort, movement and proportion represented in Katharine Hepburn’s fashion choices and in the costumes she wore.

Jan. 24, 2025

The Kent State University Museum is pleased to announce its winter exhibition, “Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson: Micro/Macro,” a solo exhibition by Ohio-based artist, Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson. Consistent with the museum’s mission to showcase exceptional textile art and to inspire the next generation of artists, the exhibition includes over 30 large-scale works by Kent State alumna Jónsson.

The exhibition is curated by Sara Hume, Ph.D. and will be open to the public from Friday, January 24 through August 3, 2025. A public opening reception and artist talk will be held on Thursday, January 23 at 5 p.m. at the museum.

This exhibition is sponsored by Ken Robinson. The Kent State University Museum receives operating support through a sustainability grant from the Ohio Arts Council.

Colorful textile tapestry depicting the Madonna
Mar. 21, 2025

The Kent State University Museum is pleased to announce its spring exhibition, “John Paul Morabito: Madonna dei Femminellə”, a solo exhibition by the head of the textiles program at Kent State University’s School of Art.

Mar. 31, 2025

Jerry Lewis was professor of sociology at Kent State University from 1966 to 1996. He witnessed the May 4 shootings as a faculty marshal and dedicated much of his career to researching, memorializing, and lecturing about the events of May 4, 1970. This exhibit explores Lewis’ career as a teacher, academic, faculty marshal, collector and chronicler who was driven by his dedication to May 4 and passion for its preservation.

Apr. 07, 2025

Jerry Lewis was professor of sociology at Kent State University from 1966 to 1996. He witnessed the May 4 shootings as a faculty marshal and dedicated much of his career to researching, memorializing, and lecturing about the events of May 4, 1970. This exhibit explores Lewis’ career as a teacher, academic, faculty marshal, collector and chronicler who was driven by his dedication to May 4 and passion for its preservation.

Apr. 14, 2025

Jerry Lewis was professor of sociology at Kent State University from 1966 to 1996. He witnessed the May 4 shootings as a faculty marshal and dedicated much of his career to researching, memorializing, and lecturing about the events of May 4, 1970. This exhibit explores Lewis’ career as a teacher, academic, faculty marshal, collector and chronicler who was driven by his dedication to May 4 and passion for its preservation.

Apr. 21, 2025

Visit the CAED to see Laure Nolte's exhibit "Field of Dreams" on display from April 21 - August 21 in the Armstrong Gallery.

Apr. 21, 2025

Jerry Lewis was professor of sociology at Kent State University from 1966 to 1996. He witnessed the May 4 shootings as a faculty marshal and dedicated much of his career to researching, memorializing, and lecturing about the events of May 4, 1970. This exhibit explores Lewis’ career as a teacher, academic, faculty marshal, collector and chronicler who was driven by his dedication to May 4 and passion for its preservation.

Apr. 28, 2025

Jerry Lewis was professor of sociology at Kent State University from 1966 to 1996. He witnessed the May 4 shootings as a faculty marshal and dedicated much of his career to researching, memorializing, and lecturing about the events of May 4, 1970. This exhibit explores Lewis’ career as a teacher, academic, faculty marshal, collector and chronicler who was driven by his dedication to May 4 and passion for its preservation.

Apr. 29, 2025

Jerry Lewis was professor of sociology at Kent State University from 1966 to 1996. He witnessed the May 4 shootings as a faculty marshal and dedicated much of his career to researching, memorializing, and lecturing about the events of May 4, 1970. This exhibit explores Lewis’ career as a teacher, academic, faculty marshal, collector and chronicler who was driven by his dedication to May 4 and passion for its preservation.

Apr. 30, 2025

Jerry Lewis was professor of sociology at Kent State University from 1966 to 1996. He witnessed the May 4 shootings as a faculty marshal and dedicated much of his career to researching, memorializing, and lecturing about the events of May 4, 1970. This exhibit explores Lewis’ career as a teacher, academic, faculty marshal, collector and chronicler who was driven by his dedication to May 4 and passion for its preservation.

May. 01, 2025

Jerry Lewis was professor of sociology at Kent State University from 1966 to 1996. He witnessed the May 4 shootings as a faculty marshal and dedicated much of his career to researching, memorializing, and lecturing about the events of May 4, 1970. This exhibit explores Lewis’ career as a teacher, academic, faculty marshal, collector and chronicler who was driven by his dedication to May 4 and passion for its preservation.

Alan Canfora
May. 02, 2025

Alan Canfora was one of nine students wounded on May 4, 1970, when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on Kent State students during an anti-war protest on campus. Explore Canfora’s incredible collection of materials documenting his lifelong commitment to activism, advocacy and remembrance of those wounded and killed on May 4, 1970, including the large part he played in the May 4 Task Force (M4TF).
Curated by Savannah Gould, Special Collections Project Archivist, April 2025

May. 02, 2025

Jerry Lewis was professor of sociology at Kent State University from 1966 to 1996. He witnessed the May 4 shootings as a faculty marshal and dedicated much of his career to researching, memorializing, and lecturing about the events of May 4, 1970. This exhibit explores Lewis’ career as a teacher, academic, faculty marshal, collector and chronicler who was driven by his dedication to May 4 and passion for its preservation.

May. 03, 2025

Jerry Lewis was professor of sociology at Kent State University from 1966 to 1996. He witnessed the May 4 shootings as a faculty marshal and dedicated much of his career to researching, memorializing, and lecturing about the events of May 4, 1970. This exhibit explores Lewis’ career as a teacher, academic, faculty marshal, collector and chronicler who was driven by his dedication to May 4 and passion for its preservation.

May. 03, 2025

Art can be a positive healing experience, allowing reflection, encouraging discussion, and bringing people together. Join the May 4 Visitors Center for a vigil lantern making workshop led by Jennifer Schwartz, Assistant Professor of Art Therapy at Ursuline College. Customize a lantern, conveying your own message of peace and remembrance, to use during the May 4 Vigil on Saturday evening. This event is a drop-in experience but supplies are limited and available on a first come first serve basis.

May. 03, 2025

Join us to explore the lasting impact of the Vietnam War through the perspectives of adoptee Mahli Xuan Mechenbier, J.D., and retired Maj. Gen. Ed Mechenbier, a Vietnam prisoner of war, connecting the war’s humanitarian and historical consequences to Kent State’s legacy.

This ticketed event is free and open to the public.

May. 03, 2025

We will be going to Trail Lake Park for a beginner-friendly paddle around the lake in some kayaks! There is beautiful scenery, wildlife, and fresh air to take in while on the water. We will provide an introduction to kayaking before we get on the water going over lake safety, paddling strokes, and more! There is also an accessible kayak put-in at the docks for easy entry into your kayak.
Date & Time: Saturday, May 3 from 2 - 5 p.m.
Location: Trail Lake Park - meet at the SRWC
Cost: $30 Students, $35 Non-students

May. 03, 2025

Join us for a history-focused panel discussion on Saturday, May 3rd, 2025 @ 3:00pm in the Raup Geography Library (McGilvrey 417). This event is open to the public and is part of May 4th programming.

The panel will feature:

Robert K. Brigham- Vassar College
"Was Couth Vietnam Viable?"

Shane Strate - Kent State University
“Confronting a Unified Vietnam: Southeast Asia after 1975”

James A. Tyner - Kent State University
“The ‘Other’ Fall: Cambodia & the Legacy of America’s War in Vietnam”

This event is co-sponsored by the May 4th Education Committee and The School of Peace and Conflict Studies at Kent State University.