For Kent State alumna Yalanda (Cunningham) Johnson, it was an honor and a blessing to receive the Flashes Go Further Scholarship.As a first-generation, non-traditional student, Johnson used the funds to help complete her bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2022. It took her a total of 10 years to complete her bachelor's degree.“If you can get that little bit of help it encourages people to move forward,” Johnson said. “It encourages people to get into college or go back to college.” Cunningham is one of more than 11,000 Kent State students awarded nearly $50 million in Flashes Go Furt...

A professor from Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea, said his recent visit to Kent State University enabled him to experience his research into the May 4, 1970, Kent State shootings in a whole new way.“In my May 4 research, I have been learning through text,” said Euihuack Kang, Ph.D, associate professor and chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at Chonnam. “This has been a totally different experience.” Kang said he was impressed by the whole series of May 4 Commemoration events, how well-organized they were and how well-attended by students, faculty...

Kent State University students, faculty, staff and community members gathered as they have for the past 54 years on the Kent Campus to remember the events surrounding May 4, 1970, when 13 seconds of rifle fire by a contingent of 28 Ohio National Guardsmen left four students dead, one permanently paralyzed, and eight others wounded during a student demonstration against the Vietnam War. This year, against the backdrop of intensifying demonstrations and encampments in protest of the Israel-Hamas War across college campuses nationwide, national and local media have paid special attention to the t...