Kent State University invites all to pay tribute to those who have served in the U.S. armed forces and attend the university’s annual Veterans Day Commemoration. The event will take place at 11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 8, at the Student Green on the Kent Campus. The Student Green is located in front of the Kent Student Center and Risman Plaza. The program, titled “Honoring All Those Who Serve,” will include a flag-raising ceremony conducted by a joint color guard from Kent State’s Army ROTC and Air Force ROTC programs; Tim Coyne, senior business manager for Kent State’s Division of Student Li...

  Kent State staffer Amy Antenora submitted these images of a glorious fall day on Risman Plaza. Antenora is an editor in Kent State's Division of University Communications and Marketing.    Want to see one of YOUR photos in “IN A FLASH?” Submit your Kent State-related photos to InAFlash@kent.edu and you may see them in a future Kent State Today post. Photos should be framed -horizontally- and include a brief description of what’s happening in the photo along with when and where it was taken....

Victoria Bylsma said it only took about two hours after a mentor suggested she look into a graduate degree in public health to know what she wanted to do with her career.Today, the Kent State University Master of Public Health graduate helps to protect service members’ health and readiness as an injury epidemiologist at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. When researching schools, Bylsma said Kent State checked off all the boxes.“Kent was for me No. 1,” Bylsma said. “I’m from Canton, Ohio, so it was close. I already had a job, and I knew I was going to put myself through gr...