Tickets will be available Monday, Oct. 18 for the first speaker in a notable lineup headlining the 30th season of Kent State University at Stark’s Featured Speakers Series.

Maxwell King, author of the first full-length biography of Fred Rogers, “The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers”, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, at Kent State Stark. 

Sitting in her high school calculus class senior year, it all clicked for Ashley Meinke. Math was her passion.

Fast-forward to today, Meinke is in her 11th year teaching mathematics at Perry High School and is active with the school’s Math Club. She spends her days with top math students, teaching Honors Pre-Calculus and AP Calculus to upperclassmen.

Kent State University at Stark is kicking off its 75th anniversary celebration with a lineup of notable speakers headlining the 30th season of the campus’ storied Featured Speakers Series.

These household names range from Elizabeth Smart, the child abduction survivor and present-day advocate; Erin Brockovich, the brash legal clerk turned environmental powerhouse; and Maxwell King, a major philanthropist who wrote the biography of beloved Mr. Fred Rogers. 

Instruments of the Late Charlie Wentz to be used in Ashtabula program.

Airplanes meant a lot to Charlie Wentz. An aerospace engineer, Wentz was always reaching for the sky as a pilot, flight instructor and a professor in Kent State University’s College of Aeronautics and Engineering. Now, flight instruments he once owned will be used in the airplane maintenance program being established by Kent State University at Ashtabula.

New educational well field at Kent State Stark expands student opportunities and research.

It’s a sunny spring day at Kent State University at Stark – the perfect day to install an educational groundwater well field behind the campus’ Pond & Wetlands Research Area. And while contractors dig deep, science faculty know the groundbreaking will have an impact that’s limitless: real-world learning through hands-on experience.

Welcome back to campus, Flashes!

As a reminder, face coverings are required indoors for everyone, regardless of vaccination status, on all Kent State campuses.

All Stark Campus offices are open. Check websites for available hours. We look forward to seeing you!