Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative and College of Architecture and Environmental Design have received a $20,000 award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) through the Grants for Arts Projects program. The funding will support wintertime temporary art installations and a public event on Cleveland’s Veterans Memorial Bridge, also known as the Detroit-Superior Bridge, as part of the NEA’s America250 initiative.The grant proposal was developed by Brendan Ho, assistant professor of architecture in Kent State’s College of Architecture and Environmental D...
Ana Ligia de Sousa is a fourth-year student at Kent State University and is a double major in advertising and applied communication studies with a minor in entrepreneurship for non-business majors.Ana Ligia is an international student from Brazil and always thought of studying abroad because of her international background. She kept seeing emails and posters for the programs from the Office of Global Education around campus and got more interested once she saw how feasible studying abroad could be. After speaking with her Education Abroad Advisor, she decided to apply for the KSU Freeman Fello...
Financial Aid Next Steps for New Students
As a new student at Kent State, you’ll want to complete several important steps to stay on track with your financial aid and scholarships for the upcoming year.
Federal Student Aid Changes for 2026-27
The One Big Beautiful Act was signed into law on July 4, 2025, and makes significant changes to federal financial aid programs, including new loan limits, new loan repayment options and updated eligibility requirements. These changes will impact both current and future students.
The Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI)’s new light sheet microscope creates 3D imaging of large samples at subcellular resolution (about 200x smaller than the diameter of a human hair). The Blaze, as the device is commonly known, provides an unparalleled ability to image and map complete biological systems from various species, including human samples. “Kent State currently has the only Blaze light sheet microscope available for use by researchers in Northeast Ohio,” said Aleisha Moore, Ph.D., BHRI assistant director of the Neuroimaging Collaboratory. “Therefore, Kent State researche...
It’s a typical question asked to a particular group of students: “So, what are you going to do with a degree in communications?”Fortunately, Lisa Waite has made it her mission to help communication studies majors on the Stark Campus show that such a degree can open doors to an almost endless list of career opportunities. She is a senior lecturer of communication studies at Kent State Stark, where she leads a well-developed internship program, and has been teaching at the university for 30 years.Students majoring in communication studies are required to select either an internship or take...