The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) recently announced that Teresa Villa-Ignacio, Ph.D., an associate professor of French and Translation in the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies at Kent State University, is one of 22 translators selected to receive a Literature Translation Fellowship of $10,000. This fellowship will support the translation of Anne-Marie Albiach's La Mezzanine: The Last Account of Catarina Quia into English. In total, the NEA will award $300,000 in grants to support the translation into English of works written in 10 different languages from 16 countrie...

EHHS grad Linda Kohl Klark, BS ’81, Finley, OK, was featured in the TimesReporter. A native of Newcomerstown, she recently retired in Oklahoma after spending years working in recreation and outdoor education. --Photo courtesy TimesReporter ...

KENT, Ohio – The School of Art Collection and Galleries at Kent State University are pleased to announce a new exhibit “Nexo Entre Raíces / Nexus Between Roots” which will be on display January 27 – March 18, 2023, at the KSU Downtown Gallery, located at 141 East Main Street in Kent, Ohio with a featured Artist Talk: March 3, 12-1 p.m. (CVA 165) and a reception in the KSU Downtown Gallery on March 3, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. The work in this exhibition was organized and collected by El Paso, Texas-based artist Marco Sanchez. It features over 30 works made with a variety of print-making techniques f...

The School of Peace and Conflict Studies has produced its second newsletter!  Check it out online at https://www.kent.edu/spcs/spcs-newsletter-issue-2-october-2022   This newsletter highlights events that we’ve sponsored, some special classes offered, our upcoming Community Dialogue Workshop and our Peace Conference that will be held in Rwanda this year, and  other work being done by faculty, students and alumni.   For future issues of the newsletter, we hope that our students and alumni will contact us with updates on achievements, experiences and career p...