Lacrosse wasn't always a huge dream for me.In fact, lacrosse in my area wasn’t even accessible to young girls until my mom got people together to start up a youth program that fed into my high school. My older brother played lacrosse and I wanted to do what he did....
For the second year in a row, Kent State University at Tuscarawas will host the Ohio District 13 Science Day competition on Sat., March 9. District 13 includes middle school and high school students from Carroll, Stark and Tuscarawas counties. Young scientists from the three counties will share their knowledge and passion for various areas of science.Science Day is under the umbrella of the Ohio Academy of Science, the leading organization in Ohio advancing the understanding and practice of science, engineering and technology.The Ohio Academy of Science is a non-profit organization that focuse...
Kent State University alumna McKenzie Morgan has been there, done that, and has seen it all from fashion to travel. Morgan began her fashion blog in high school, writing about trends and other aspects of the fashion world. She originally considered fashion journalism as a career, but when she was at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, she had a few posts on TikTok go viral, and traditional journalism took a back seat. Morgan graduated from Kent State with a Bachelor of Science in Fashion Merchandising and a minor in fashion media in December 2022. Once her posts gained tractio...
School of Media and Journalism
In honor of Scholastic Journalism Week, Feb. 19 to 23, 2024, we caught up with Kent State alumni who got their starts in scholastic journalism. High school journalism and media programs prepare students for a wide range of college majors and communication careers. Meghan CaprezAs communications manager at Walt Disney World, Meghan Caprez, ‘15, M.A. ‘17, shares stories of Disney cast members and the great things they do in the community through media pitches, press releases and social media content. However, her experience in storytelling began years before working at the most magical...
What started as just a tip from an archivist quickly captured the attention and imagination of a Kent State University professor and their student.Senior Psychology Major Alex Moir and Lauren Vachon, an assistant professor of LGBTQ studies, realized that what they were reading was a 130-year-old love letter between two women, a rare artifact of queerness from that era....
On Feb. 26, Kent State University notified the Kent Campus community about an unverified threat at Kent Hall that was deemed to be not credible. Kent State is not alone. Schools and institutions across the country have been receiving false threats. Recently, unsubstantiated threats were received by Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Northern Illinois University, the University of Pennsylvania and many others.The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in an August 2023 article that the number of bomb threats against higher education institutions spiked in 2022, a roughly 450% increase compa...