Webinar: Brain-Based Learning: Module 4: How to Engage Learners

Brain-Based Learning Workshop Series: We know you’re already juggling so much—but what if a few small shifts could make how you facilitate learning more effective, engaging, and even energizing? This workshop series is designed to help you save time, make the most of your resources, and bring fresh strategies into your work. From the neuroscience of learning to quick, evidence-based practices, we’ll explore ways to help learners engage during your sessions and retain information.

Webinar: Brain-Based Learning, Module 6: Beat Brain Boredom

Brain-Based Learning Workshop Series: We know you’re already juggling so much—but what if a few small shifts could make how you facilitate learning more effective, engaging, and even energizing? This workshop series is designed to help you save time, make the most of your resources, and bring fresh strategies into your work. From the neuroscience of learning to quick, evidence-based practices, we’ll explore ways to help learners engage during your sessions and retain information.

Webinar: Brain-Based Learning: Module 5: Creating a Positive Learning Environment

Brain-Based Learning Workshop Series: We know you’re already juggling so much—but what if a few small shifts could make how you facilitate learning more effective, engaging, and even energizing? This workshop series is designed to help you save time, make the most of your resources, and bring fresh strategies into your work. From the neuroscience of learning to quick, evidence-based practices, we’ll explore ways to help learners engage during your sessions and retain information.

Student Life Study hopes to improve the student experience
Division of Research & Economic Development

A recent study at Kent State University is exploring ways to improve student life by gathering insights directly from students about their campus experiences. Researchers hope the findings will lead to meaningful changes that enhance academic and social life on campus. Read more about the study at The Kent Stater....

Bringing “El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom” to Life
College of the Arts

El Coqui play at Cleveland Playhouse

Kent State faculty and alumni are working on a new show, “El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom,” presented by Cleveland Public Theatre/Teatro Publico de Cleveland March 20-April 5. Cleveland Public Theatre has a significant national and international reputation, annually producing world premieres and various education programs.Set in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, circa 2010, "El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom" centers on Alex, a 20-something Nuyorican comic book artist struggling with issues of identity and heritage. Inspired by the vejigante mask left to him by his dad, Alex copes...

Early Childhood Education Graduate Student Teaches Abroad in New Zealand
Office of Global Education

Anna Thompson recently returned from student teaching abroad in New Zealand through the Consortium for Overseas Student Teaching (COST) program. Anna participated in the COST program during her final semester of the Master of Arts in Teaching: Early Childhood Education program and sat down with us for an interview about her experience. Why did you decide to pursue student teaching abroad?I have to send a huge shout out to Doctor Elizabeth Kenyon. I had no idea about the COST program. It wasn't even on my radar to go abroad and finish my student teaching abroad, and she was able to share a...

Student Team Designs and Tests Custom 8-Motor Drone

Group photo of the students who collaborated on the X8 prototype

A team of students took their skills to new heights—literally—by designing, building and flight-testing a custom eight-motor drone similar in design to the C-21 Dragon Assault Ship from the movie Avatar.The project, completed as part of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) course in the College of Aeronautics and Engineering taught by assistant professor Riu Lui, Ph.D. challenged students to create a novel multirotor platform from scratch.“It is novel in design and electrical integration – complex, but I’m proud they made it,” Lui said. “It’s a great showcase of our college’s approach to hands-...

Alumnus Shares ‘Layered Leadership’ Insights With Students and Administrators Through Recent Behind-the-Book Interview
Division of Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement

Layered Leadership

Lawrence R. Armstrong, ’79, ’80, returned to his alma mater Thursday, Feb. 27, to share insights from his first book, “Layered Leadership.” Offered as both an in-person and virtual event, more than 100 individuals from the Kent State University community attended to hear the author describe his holistic, humanist approach to leadership and how that has propelled his firm, Ware Malcomb, into a globally recognized architecture and design powerhouse.“Layered Leadership,” published in early March 2025, a USA Today Bestseller and recipient of a Literary Titan Silver Book Award, explores t...

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