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Friday, April 8, 2022 - 10:10am
This year’s return of in-person events to commemorate the Kent State shootings will include the dedication of bronze markers placed on the spots where nine students were wounded on May 4, 1970. Markers designating the locations of each of the four students killed were installed…

Thursday, April 7, 2022 - 10:45am
Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham, whose knowledge of politics, history, religion and current affairs makes him one of America’s most prominent public intellectuals, will appear the evening of May 4 for Kent State University’s Presidential…
Wednesday, April 6, 2022 - 09:01am
Dear Kent State University Students, Faculty and Staff,
Spring brings many things to Northeast Ohio: warmer weather, budding flowers and trees, and groups gathering on campus to present their beliefs and causes.
Please know that as a public university we must, by law, allow…

Friday, April 1, 2022 - 09:51am
During National Autism Acceptance Month, Kent State University will hold a film screening of “Loving Lampposts: Living Autistic” at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 7, in the Kent Student Center Kiva. “Loving Lampposts” is a documentary by Todd Drezner, a father of a now 13-year-old…

Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - 11:38am
The School of Fashion announces the return of its acclaimed in-person Fashion Show, April 28-30, 2022, in Rockwell Hall on the Kent Campus. The presenting sponsor of the 2022 show is renowned American department store, Dillard’s Inc. Dillard’s is a long-time supporter of the…

Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 04:25pm
KeyBank Foundation has awarded a new $200,000 gift to Kent State University to continue KeyBank Foundation’s support for the successful Key Connections program offered by University College at Kent State. The Key Connections program will continue to support student success…

Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 01:57pm
Although Kent State alumna and current graduate student Lydia Lisowsky has never visited Ukraine, she feels a deep sense of obligation and responsibility to help those who have been injured in the war. Lisowsky recently began a campaign to collect medical supplies on the Kent…

Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 09:27am
For the first time since 2019, Kent State University will remember May 4, 1970, with its return to an in-person, annual commemoration to honor the four students who were killed, the nine students who were wounded and the countless others whose lives were forever changed when the…
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 - 10:48am
UPDATE:
Due to increased potential for severe weather in Ohio, the statewide tornado drill originally scheduled for Wednesday, March 23, at 9:50 a.m. has been canceled.
The Ohio Committee for Severe Weather Awareness and its partners, including Kent State University’s…

Monday, March 21, 2022 - 02:45pm
The Kent State University School of Music returns to Severance Music Center on Monday, May 2, at 7 p.m. featuring nearly 300 students from across the university performing a rich lineup of genres and styles from classical and jazz to gospel and world music. It will also feature…