Community & Society

Earth Fest 2024

IN A FLASH: Earth Month Wrap Up

Kent State celebrated Earth Month with an exceptionally full schedule of events, not the least of which were the activities on campus surrounding the total solar eclipse!

Tags: Earth Day, Total Solar Eclipse, Environmental Science and Design Research Institute, Community Impact, Community & Society, Organizational Sustainability, Research & Science

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Flashes First Friday 2025

IN A FLASH: Discovering Downtown

On Aug. 15, some of Kent State's newest Golden Flashes explored downtown Kent as part of Flashes First Friday. 

Tags: Town-Gown, downtown kent, Community & Society, Community Impact, KSU Kickoff

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Downton Abbey movie preview to be held at Kent State.

Downton Abbey Fans Grab Your Tissues and Head to Kent for the Grand Finale

A collaboration between Kent State University’s School of Fashion, School of Theatre and Dance and Focus Features will bring the final Downton Abbey movie to Kent for an early screening and period fashion show. The movie, “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,” will have a preview showing on Friday, Sept. 5, at the Kent Plaza Cinema, a week before it opens in theaters nationwide. 

Tags: Arts & Culture, Community & Society, Community Impact

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Retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Ed Mechenbier

An Honorable Journey From Vietnam to Kent State Geauga

Honor is not only an attitude; it’s an action. As it is given and received, it profoundly improves the lives of all involved.

Tags: Community & Society, Community Impact

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The fountain at the Kent State Student Memorial Garden.

IN A FLASH: A Place of Quiet Contemplation

Dedicated in April 2015, The Student Memorial Garden on Manchester Field was created as a place of reflection and remembrance of all Kent State students who have died. 

Tags: Students First, University News, Community & Society, University Facilities Management

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Michele Curran Cornell

History Alumna Works to Honor American Heroes Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice

In a quiet office at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, Michele Curran Cornell spends her weekdays immersed in history — not the kind found in textbooks, but the kind that impacts families and honors those who gave everything for our country. 

Tags: Community & Society, Community Impact

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Three Presidents Banner

‘All Three Were Very Honorable, Good Men’

A Mantua woman who worked at Kent State in the Office of the President from 1951 to 1971 recently celebrated her 110th birthday. She recalls her time at Kent State and shares a few reflections from her long life. 

Tags: Profiles, University News, Community Impact, Office of the President, Community & Society

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Writing Our Lives

Professors Help High School Students Succeed Through Poetry, Art and Virtual Reality

The Crystal, a three-story, glass atrium and entrance to the Akron Art Museum, provided the perfect backdrop for these diamonds in the rough, a coming-of-age collection manifested in the proud work of multi-talented, middle and high school students from Akron participating in a program designed to illicit self-expression through poetry, art and virtual reality.

Tags: Arts & Culture, Community & Society, Community Impact

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Educators from Brazil took part in the Design Innovation Change Agent Workshop.

Agents of Change: Kent State’s Design Innovation Initiative Trains Brazilian Educators

A group of school administrators from Brazil recently completed the 10-day Design Innovation Change Agent Workshop at Kent State University’s Design Innovation Hub, where they immersed themselves in design innovation techniques as they endeavor to innovate their school system at home.

Tags: Global Reach, Community & Society, Global Impact, Nationally Distinctive

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Spring Opera 2025

IN A FLASH: Fairies, Fantasy and Song!

Kent State Opera Theatre's spring production featured scenes from a selection of famous operas with themes both natural and supernatural. 

Tags: Arts & Culture, School of Music, School of Theatre and Dance, Community Impact, Community & Society

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