Meet Christina Turner, the First Place FlashPitch Competition Award recipient. Christina is a School of Information Masters student majoring in User Experience Design. Please give a short overview of your research. I'm working on an information portal that aggregates, curates, and maintains region-specific resources, utilizing UX best practices to aid discoverability. What made you choose to pursue your graduate degree here at Kent State? My interests are equally in information science, visual design, and technology, and KSU is particularly strong in all of those...

Meet Emily Rabinowitz, the Graduate Student Advancing Equity Award recipient. Emily is a Psychological Sciences Ph.D. student majoring in Clinical Psychology. Please give a short overview of your research. I am interested in the interaction between chronic health and mental health issues, with a special focus on trauma, reproductive health and chronic pain. What made you choose to pursue your graduate degree here at Kent State? I was interested in working with my advisor, Dr. Doug Delahanty, who studies stress and health. I wanted to have an interdisciplinary program where I co...

Kent, OHIO – A beam signing ceremony allowed donors, Kent State University leaders and the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship’s National Advisory Board to sign what will be the final beam placed in Crawford Hall. During a commemorative event on April 20, special guests had the opportunity to sign the beam, which is expected to be placed in June during a topping out ceremony. Kent State President Todd Diacon and Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship Dean Deborah F. Spake, Ph.D., provided remarks prior to the signing ceremony. “All of us ...

  In the past four years since I started as director, I have witnessed the graduating seniors meet and overcome the unique struggles they have experienced through the start of the pandemic and our post-lockdown world. I have been impressed with their resiliency and flexibility in the face of the constantly evolving challenges that profoundly affected the usual course of their undergraduate years. I am proud of their education here, knowing they have been coached, mentored, and taught by our exceptional faculty, who creatively reimagined ways of delivering education to our students.&nbs...

Joshua A. Daniel is a McNair Scholar and a junior majoring in psychology. He is studying African American maternal mental health in the Program for Research on Anxiety Disorders among African Americans (PRADAA) to help improve the mental health within African American communities.   Hearing about the personal experiences of others every day is just one of the reasons Joshua studies psychology. He feels that sharing perspectives is crucial to building mutual trust and understanding saying, “realizing that every single life we see is as diverse, rich, and intricate as our own can help...

In advance of its premiere, Kent State University’s School of Fashion previewed some of the designs created by its senior students for the 2023 Kent State Fashion Show. The student designers and their models showcased what attendees of this year’s fashion show will see walking down the runway. This year, 30 designers created 113 looks. This year also marks the 40th anniversary of Kent State’s Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising. Opening night of the annual fashion show on April 26 is sold out. Tickets are available for the April 28 and April 29 ...

At Hyde Park's famous Speaker's Corner in London, citizens come together to discuss social issues they are passionate about. A similar tradition exists at Kent State: The Hyde Park Forum is a long-standing public speaking competition, featuring student finalists from COMM 15000: Intro to Human Communication, who perform their persuasive speeches from class. COMM 15000 is open to all Kent State students. This year’s forum, which took place April 12, was the first to be held since 2019 due to the pandemic. Community members are invited to evaluate the students’ speeches, and the finalists are...