Mamoun Alzoubi, Department of English

Freshmen at McKinley High School in Canton now have a chance to enroll in a new program that, when completed, will guarantee their admission into a local four-year university and significant college financial help when they are graduated from high school.

The Bulldog Flash Academic Institute is a new partnership between Kent State University at Stark and Canton McKinley Senior High School that plans to usher approximately 25 McKinley freshmen each year through the process of becoming college ready.

Kent State University junior Rachel Stypinski won the all-around title to lead the Golden Flashes at the 2017 Mid-American Conference (MAC) Gymnastics Championships.

FlashFest 2017 hosted an array of musical performances, headlined by rappers Sammy Adams and Rae Sremmurd. This annual celebration, which occurs at the end of the spring semester, is organized and presented by Kent State’s Undergraduate Student Government.

Residents in the East Liverpool area can have water samples tested for free, thanks to a research project being conducted by Qunxing Ding of Kent State University at East Liverpool.

Kent State University junior Brooke Mullins follows in the footsteps of her father and brother as a certified volunteer firefighter.

Kent State University is honored to welcome Academy Award-winning actress and author Octavia Spencer as the keynote speaker for the first university-wide Commencement ceremony on May 13.

Online faculty/staff parking permit renewals will be available now through May 12. After May 12, permits can be purchased in person in the Parking Services office located in Room 123, Schwartz Center. For permit renewal assistance or for additional information, contact Parking Services at 330-672-4432 or by email at parking@kent.edu.
   
Renew your faculty/staff parking permit

Kent State University’s Division of Student Affairs hosted its annual employee celebration on April 13 in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. The breakfast event brings the division together to celebrate the employees’ hard work and dedication throughout the year and to recognize integral campus partners.

Athena Salaba, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, presented a poster titled “User Testing of Prototype Systems in Two Different Environments: Preliminary Results” at the 18th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2016, Tsukuba, Japan, Dec. 7-9, 2016. (Co-authors: Tanja Merčun and School of Library and Information Science alumna Maja Žumer, M.L.S. ’93.)