On Friday morning, Kent State issued an advisory to the community about a fire that erupted at the former Star of the West mill in downtown Kent. Though the smoke can be seen from a distance, there is no danger to the Kent Campus as the fire is contained to downtown. The Kent Fire Department is on the scene with help from multiple area fire departments to battle the blaze. Area businesses have been evacuated or closed for the day. Firefighters have blocked off the streets surrounding the mill, and the university is encouraging the community to stay away from downtown.   ...

Get a slice of the action at Homeslice Pizzeria, the newest edition to the Hub in the Kent Student Center. This year the student center celebrated its 50th anniversary. Homeslice Pizzeria was an idea that began at the end of August to fill a recent vacant spot in the Hub. “We opened on the 50th anniversary of the student center on the 50th day of class of that year,” said Eliot Norris, associate director and campus executive chef for University Culinary Services. “We wanted to have all the Hub spaces open down there.” Currently, the menu includes pepperoni, cheese, veggie, sa...

Zan, Zendegi, Azadi. Women, Life, Freedom. Two Iranian-born women who are also members of the Kent State community shared this unifying slogan in Farsi and English with students, faculty, staff and others Wednesday night after discussing the uprising in Iran and the history that brought the country to this point. A standing-room-only crowd gathered to hear Kent State alumna Mahtab Tehrani, Ph.D., and first-year student Goli Kavoosi, discuss how the denial of human rights in Iran impacts us all and what tangible actions Americans can take to help. “This is not a protest anymo...

Vaneet Kaur, Ph.D., assistant professor of Management and Information Systems at Kent State University’s Stark Campus, recently was featured in The Repository, a Canton, Ohio, newspaper, for her work on promoting business ideas to help the local economy.  Kaur prepared members of her upper-division business consulting and practicum class to compete in Stark Tank 2022, an event sponsored by the Stark Education Partnership and modeled after the television show “Shark Tank,” in which entrepreneurs present their business proposals to a team of professionals.  In Stark Tank...

This November, members of the Kent State University community joined together to shine their light on philanthropy. During the November campaign, Kent State’s Giving Tuesday raised $3.6 million, marking the sixth year it has brought in more than $1 million to support scholarships and programs across Kent State’s eight-campus system. This included $1.7 million from legacy gifts, $160,000 from Kent State University Foundation matching gifts and $1.7 million from outright gifts and matches. {"preview_thumbnail":"/s3/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/jZJu9yk85tE.j...

Ever visit a restaurant or a coffee shop whose environment just simply made you feel... home?! Well, that's exactly how Field Hockey Player Katie Wuerstle felt during her first visit to Kent State.  ...

On chilly, gray days like today, people can find a place that's warm and green in the greenhouse behind Cunningham Hall on the Kent Campus  The Herrick Conservatory is home to a large and diverse selection of plants, plus some fish and a couple of turtles. Highlights of the collection include a 30-year-old rubber tree, a strawberry guava tree, banana trees, flowering plants and vegetables, succulents, tropical varieties and even carnivorous plants. The conservatory is managed by Melissa Davis (pictured), horticultural facilities director. It i...

Entrepreneurship major Audrey Ernst's love of baking and a microgrant have helped her baking business take shape.  ...

“My mom’s an art teacher,” is how Kent State University student David Brondfield introduced himself to cartoonist Tom Batiuk, a Kent State alum and creator of the “Funky Winkerbean” and “Crankshaft” comic strips.  “Art teacher is a great job,” replied Batiuk, who worked as a junior high art teacher in Elyria, Ohio, before his career as a cartoonist took off.  Brondfield, a junior from Mayfield, Ohio, majoring in computer information systems, was the first in line to get an autograph from Batiuk, who was at the University Bookstore on the Kent Campus Wednesday signing copies of ...