Workshops
Come for a social hour, followed by candle lighting, services, Kiddush, and a delicious meal! And as always, it's free.
Still have last-minute business to take care of before classes start? After you check in for KSU Kickoff just come over to Kent Market 2 to get help. We will have several offices available to assist you with questions related to your scholarships, student loans, billing payment information, class registration/advising, military-connected benefits, student accessibility services and transfer of credits, to name a few.
All new first-year and transfer students and returning students that began in the fall of 2020 or spring of 2021 are all welcome to drop in!
Services will be provided from the following offices:
- One Stop for Student Services
- Financial Aid
- Student Accessibility Services
- Center for Adult and Veteran Services
- Credit Transfer Office
- Advising offices from the following colleges:
- Architecture & Environmental Design
- Aeronautics & Engineering
- Arts & Sciences, Business Administration
- The Arts
- Communication & Information
- Education, Health, & Human Services
- Nursing
- Public Health
- University College
- Honors College
Calling all students Fall 2020 admitted students! Put on your Kent State T-Shirt and join President Diacon, USG Student Body President, Chazzlyn Jackson, and Kent State Athletics for a special welcome back event including grab-and-go food and your chance to win an exciting prize! Undergraduate Student Government (USG) serves as a representative of Kent State University undergraduate students. You can be a part of USG today by signing up for a committee under your college senators. It's a great way to get involved. Stop by the USG table at Blastoff! for more info!
Registration is required for this event: https://bit.ly/ThisISKentState
University Libraries welcomes first-year students with a chance to win a set of Apple AirPods Pro! In a matter of minutes, you'll identify your Subject Librarian based on your academic major and learn how they can help you succeed. The deadline to enter is Friday, Aug. 27.
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 welcome Assistant Professor Shana Klein of the KSU School of Art to present a virtual talk highlighting the content in her recently published book: “The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansion.” Klein studies food in the decades after the Civil War, when Americans consumed an unprecedented amount of fruit due to advancements in refrigeration and transportation. The excitement for fruit manifested in an explosion of fruit imagery within still life paintings, prints, and advertisements that served as a platform for viewers to discuss who consumed and labored these foods—many of whom were immigrants and people of color. Divided into five sections on representations of the grape, orange, watermelon, banana, and pineapple, this talk will demonstrate how fruit in art struck the nerve of the nation’s most heated debates over race and citizenship in the age of high imperialism.
Come together with other students in your college to meet your Dean. You'll build some pride for your major and new academic home before going to Convocation together. This is required for all new students in this college.
Treating glioblastoma: Networked circadian clocks in the brain
Erik Herzog, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis
Abstract: We live with daily rhythms in our environment, physiology, and behavior. Discoveries leading to our understanding of the molecular basis of circadian rhythm generation were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2017. This seminar will review molecules, cells and circuits underlying daily rhythms in the brain and how they relate to therapies for glioblastoma.
Recommended reading:
For more information, contact slamichh@kent.edu
The Brain Health Research Institute is co-sponsoring this seminar with the Kent State Biological Sciences Department.
The mission of the Brain Health Research Institute is to foster and support collaborative research leading to innovative discoveries about the brain that ultimately improve the health of our communities and beyond.
College of Business First-Year and Transfer Students! Hang out on the BSA patio after your first FYE and Common Conversations Experience meeting! Enjoy some games, trivia and FREEBIES!
Please join the department of Africana Studies for the 48th Annual New Student Reception and Cookout. Good music, good food and even better vibes!
Presented by the College of Arts and Sciences, Division of Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Division of Student Affairs and University College.
