What happens when you throw away your trash? Kent State students produce an average of four pounds of trash per person per week. Visit www.kent.edu/sustainability for more information.     ...

On Sept. 10, the Kent State University at Tuscarawas Performing Arts Center 2016-17 season launches with Resurrection – A Journey Tribute, the first of 21 diverse and high-quality performances. The season also will feature comedy, dance, Broadway shows and additional concerts. “We have four outstanding Broadway shows on this year’s schedule,” says Brad Bielski, Ph.D., dean and chief administrative officer of Kent State Tuscarawas. “David Mitchell, our general manager, applied his extensive theatre and Broadway show background to carefully choose 42nd Street, Saturday Night Fever, Riverdance a...

Team presented marketing campaign to V8®+Energy Brand executives A team of Kent State University students from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication finished second place nationwide in the Collegiate Effie competition.  Over the course of the 2016 Spring Semester, advertising majors Ellie Schering, ’17, Emily Wahl, ’16, and Matt Varga, ’16, developed an integrated marketing campaign for V8®+Energy. The Collegiate Effie competition called upon college students to develop multichannel marketing campaigns for either V8+Energy or Kleenex. Like the professional com...

What started as research on the relationship between dog and owner, turned into one of the country’s first therapy programs more than a decade ago. Today, the Dogs on Campus Pet Therapy Program® at Kent State University serves as a model to bring certified therapy dogs to stressed out college students. Throughout the academic year, Kathleen Adamle, Dogs on Campus founder and professor emerita from Kent State’s College of Nursing, brings the dogs to the library, residence halls and special events. Their furry faces and wagging tails are sure to bring smiles and a sense of peace to student...

What started as research on the relationship between dog and owner, turned into one of the country’s first therapy programs more than a decade ago. Today, the Dogs on Campus Pet Therapy Program® at Kent State University serves as a model to bring certified therapy dogs to stressed out college students. Throughout the academic year, Kathleen Adamle, Dogs on Campus founder and professor emerita from Kent State’s College of Nursing, brings the dogs to the library, residence halls and special events. Their furry faces and wagging tails are sure to bring smiles and a sense of peace to student...

What was scheduled to take four days to complete, Kent State University’s Flying Flashes finished in three. Carissa Marion, a Kent State flight instructor and graduate of the university and Jalia Manga, a flight technology major in Kent State’s College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology, landed in Daytona Beach, Florida on Thursday, June 23, instead of the following day when the all-women, 2700 mile Air Race Classic officially ended. The competition is the oldest of its kind with roots that can be traced back to the 1929 Women’s Air Derby, in ...

“We’re going to go over a basic forward stroke,” a voice calls out from the sun-soaked banks of the Cuyahoga River in Tannery Park.   With a paddle in hand, Erin McNamara demonstrates how to steer a kayak through flowing river waters. McNamara is a senior at Kent State University and a guide for the university’s Crooked River Adventures, a canoe and kayak livery in downtown Kent, Ohio. Every spring, for the past six years, Crooked River Adventures has opened its trailer - filled with canoes, kayaks, tubes and stand-up paddle boards - to customers for guided tours up to six mi...