Kent State University’s Dining Services recently hosted its annual Taste of Home competition and announced the winning dish: a turkey chili recipe submitted by Debbie McKinney, a Kent State parent. The Taste of Home competition encourages students’ family members to submit recipes of their student’s favorite home-cooked meals for the chance to have it served on campus. According to the Taste of Home webpage, “Kent State believes parents and grandparents are the best resource available to make our local menu more like home.” McKinney surprised her daughter, Dana McKinney, a first-year photo ...
Kent State University officially launched the University Stewards program this semester. The program provides students with stewards who work to serve as a point of resource, referral and support. University Stewards, a collaboration between the Division of Student Affairs and the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, was initially tested in the 2016 Spring Semester with a class of 15 stewards. The fall semester will introduce the program’s second class of stewards and expand to the Regional Campuses, bringing the program to a total of more than 30 faculty members who will serve stud...
Kent State University’s College of Education, Health and Human Services will honor seven distinguished alumni at the seventh Annual Education, Health and Human Services Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony on Friday, Oct. 21, at 6:30 p.m. in the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center. Tickets are $40 per person and include hors d’oeuvres followed by a formal dinner. The seventh class in the College of Education, Health and Human Services Hall of Fame includes: Centennial Alumni Award: Charles Fensch Charles Fensch graduated from Kent State in 1958 with a degree in education. He also was ...
The Kent State University Police Services hosted its first-ever Coffee With a Cop event in the Nest in the Kent Student Center on Sept. 14. Students who attended the event had the opportunity to interact with Kent State police officers in a casual setting and receive free coffee, and the first 200 students who attended also received a free travel mug. “Our community is important to us, and we want to be part of its everyday life,” says Bill Buckbee, assistant director of public safety and assistant chief of police at Kent State. “Police have a very traditional role in enforcing laws and maint...
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Kent State University’s Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) program is celebrating its 14th year. Though relatively new, the Kent State TEFL program has been able to offer its students a diverse experience through an intimate network of partnerships in Dresden, Germany. The program is facilitated in collaboration with Technische Universität (TU) Dresden and is led by Klaus Gommlich, TEFL program director and founder. Gommlich, who started the program in 2003, now lives in Germany and has been growing a network for students to take advantage of while studying abroad. Participating s...
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Homecoming 2016 featured a fun, family-friendly parade with alumnus and Homecoming Parade Grand Marshal Josh Cribbs, Kiss on the K, the football game and much more. Go Flashes! ...
The contemporary a cappella sensation VoicePlay will be on stage at the Kent State University at Tuscarawas Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 15. The group will arrive in Tuscarawas County three days in advance and will visit New Philadelphia East and West Elementary schools and both Tuscarawas Valley Primary and Intermediate schools for in-school assemblies for the students. On Oct. 14, VoicePlay will lead a workshop at Indian Valley High School with its choirs and New Philadelphia High School choirs. Both groups also will participate in the Saturday evening show at the P...
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Sarah Burns, a second-year master’s student in the Nutrition and Dietetics Program at Kent State University, shows off a tomato that she and others in the program helped to grow over the last few months. Under the direction of nutrition and dietetics faculty member Natalie Caine-Bish, Ph.D., Burns and other volunteers oversee the Mighty Pack Program that provides Portage County children meals during times when they are not receiving food provided through the National School Lunch Program. The Mighty Pack Program was a graduate student project that grew into a countywide food insecurity prev...
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Kent State University will celebrate the grand opening of its newest and much-anticipated building, the Center for Architecture and Environmental Design, on Friday, Oct. 7. Because the grand opening is being held outdoors and more than 1,000 people are expected to attend, Lincoln Street will be closed between Rt. 59/Main Street and College Avenue from 2-5 p.m. on Oct. 7. The Rockwell Hall parking lot will close at 11 a.m. and remain closed for the rest of the day. Visitors, alumni and friends from around the world will tour the 110,191 square-foot contemporary glass-...