The sixth annual Rainbow Run fundraising “fun run” will take place on Friday, October 8 at 7 p.m. on Kent State’s Risman Plaza. All proceeds from the event will benefit the university's LGBTQ+ Emergency Fund. The Rainbow Run is one of most important fundraising events of the year for this fund that’s available to assist any Kent State student who identifies as LGBTQ+ and is in financial crisis. This fund, started in 2010, is managed through Kent State’s LGBTQ+ Center. Ken Ditlevson, director of the center, describes the fund as a vital safety net, a lifeline for students who are struggling f...

Two Communication Studies faculty members were honored at the Ohio Communication Association's 2021 Conference, "Resilience Through Communication," Oct. 1-2, 2021, at Youngstown State University. This was the Association's 85th annual conference. Professor Nichole Egbert, Ph.D., earned the Distinguished Scholar Award, which honors the contributions of one of Ohio's top scholars. Egbert's research examines interpersonal and relational topics in health communication, most notably social support and health literacy. Professor Erin Hollenbaugh, Ph.D., nominated Egbert for the award an...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, students have decided to come back to campus and in-person learning, a trend that is evident in the newest class of Golden Flashes, up 4% from last year’s incoming class. As incoming freshmen fill the campus, fellow Flashes can get to know their new classmates. The class of 2025 is filled with students from around the country and the world, with the highest average GPA on record at KSU and from a wide variety of backgrounds, whether that’s socioeconomic, race, gender or sexuality or more. With an increase in enrollment this year, and an increase in graduatio...

Kent State University has been recognized in Newsweek’s 2021 list of the Best Maker Schools in Higher Education, an international list that includes some of the most prestigious universities throughout the world. Kent State shares the honor with 200 universities worldwide, including University of Cambridge in the UK; University of Toronto in Canada; Paris College of Art in France and Lunghwa University of Science and Technology in Taiwan. “This year for the first time Newsweek has teamed up with Make:, publisher of Make: magazine and books, to find The Best Maker Scho...

Kent State University's School of Theatre and Dance continues its 2021-2022 season with the first fully staged developmental production of the new musical Chaining Zero, running Nov. 5 – 14 in E. Turner Stump Theatre. With book by Kent State alumni John Moauro (BFA, Musical Theatre ‘07) and Griffin Parsons (BFA, Musical Theatre ‘06), music and lyrics by Jeffrey James and Justin Halpin, and additional book by Alana Rader (BFA, Musical Theatre '05), Chaining Zero is a musical where stories of struggle, hope, desire and pain intersect with everything you thought you knew ab...

Ruslanas Iržikevičius is a busy man. The Founder, Editor-in-Chief of the Lithuania Tribune news portal and founder and Editor-in-Chief of EN.15min news portal also publishes LT Daily and LT Weekly newsletters. He is an associate of Visegrad Insight think tank in Poland and is a member of the International Advisory Board of Centrum Balticum in Finland. It's this level of engagement and this expertise in publishing news during a fraught time with former global superpower and nearby neighbor Russia that has brought Mr. Iržikevičius, one of this year’s Humphrey Fellows, to Northeast Ohio. Named...