The Kent State University Retirees’ Association (KSURA) sponsors monthly presentations about topics of interest to retirees, as well as to the academic community of Kent State and the public.  These sessions are free and open to the entire campus community. Marcello Fantoni, Ph.D., will make a presentation about the various activities overseen by Kent State’s Office of Global Studies.  This presentation will be held in the meeting room on the second floor of the Kent Free Library at 312 West Main Street in Kent on Wednesday, Apr. 10, from 3-5 p.m. Fantoni will describe programs that ...

The Kent State University Press is delighted to announce that Professor Jamie C. Capuzza’s new book, The Fifth Star: Ohio’s Fight for Women’s Right to Vote (Kent State University Press, 2023), has received the 2024 Senior Scholar Publication Award from the Ohio Academy of History. The award was announced on Saturday, March 16, 2024, at the Ohio Academy of History’s annual conference.  Founded in 1932, the Ohio Academy of History (OAH) is a professional society for historians who live in the state of Ohio. The OAH’s judges said that Capuzza has written “an eloquent and timely book tha...