A significant fire broke out at the Teatro Universitário (TUCA) of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR) in Curitiba, Brazil on April 15. Kent State University’s American Academy program operates on the PUCPR campus as part of the dual-enrollment partnership established between the two institutions in 2018. The damaged building does not house any American Academy classes, but is the home to the program’s commencement ceremony. The blaze, which reportedly started in an air conditioning unit before a medical student lab coat ceremony, prompted a campus-wide evacuation....

A star-studded lineup of scientists will return to Kent State University on April 25-26 to mark the 60th anniversary of the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute. The institute, formed in 1965, and its former directors, will welcome back numerous accomplished alumni to celebrate its past and look toward the future.Torsten Hegmann, Ph.D., current director of the institute, said the event will celebrate the technology scientists are presently researching and the institute’s illustrious past.“Kent State is the world’s leading institution in the area of liquid crystal – not in Ohio,...