The Kent State University Museum and the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State announce the launch of the “Digital Green Book” created in support of the exhibition “TEXTURES: the history and art of Black hair.” This is the first collaboration between the Kent State University Museum and the Wick Poetry Center, extending the poetry center’s series of innovative interactions known as the Listening Wall and Emerge poems that inspire creative connections between individuals and content. The subjects of the “Digital Green Book” are barbers and stylists living and working in Northeast Ohio&n...

Congratulations to James C. Hannon, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Education, Health and Human Services, who was elected to serve a 2-year term as Chair of the State University Education Deans (SUED) which began on July 1st. SUED is an association of education deans from Ohio’s thirteen public Colleges of Education. Working in collaboration with the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE), the Ohio Department of Education (ODE), and other educational entities, SUED’s mission is to ensure that the highest quality candidates are prepared to meet the diverse needs of schools, agencies, ...

What happens when two neutron stars collide? What extreme densities and temperatures are reached? What new states of matter exist within the core of a neutron star? These and other questions like them are nearly impossible for scientists, including astrophysicists, to answer on their own. It takes interdisciplinary collaborations from multiple institutions who share their own data and combine it to begin exploring and analyzing various models and theories. These enormous computational efforts are complex, to say the least. In fact, it takes large-scale computer clusters and ultimately ...

Campus Pride has released its 2021 Best of the Best LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities list, and for the second time in two years, Kent State University has landed on it. Kent State is the only Ohio public university to make the 2021 list, and it again is the only school in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) to receive this recognition. Celebrating its 20th year, Campus Pride has continued to support college and university campuses to help improve campus life for LGBTQ students. The 2021 Best of the Best Colleges and Universities list is based on several factor...