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Kent State University President Beverly Warren will deliver her first State of the University address on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 3 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva. Kent State faculty, staff, students and members of the community are invited to attend the event, which is themed “Celebrating Today, Imagining Tomorrow.” A reception will follow in Room 206, Kent Student Center. Regional Campuses will host watch locations for their campus communities. “As we approach the season of giving thanks, I remain deeply grateful, truly proud and enormously excited to be part of the most gifted an...

Arushi Patel, a fourth-year Kent State University College of Architecture and Environmental Design student, recently landed an internship with Gilbane, a company that is managing the construction of her college's new home.     ...

William Auld has a unique skill to pass on to students Backstage of the Weathervane Playhouse in Akron, crews are raising the bar on safety as they prepared for the opening of Peter Pan. Nobody knows the art of safety better than William Auld, Kent State University at Tuscarawas theatre professor. Auld is one of only a few dozen in the world certified in rigging theatres and arenas, and training others. “When I was little, I would say that I wanted to run away and join the circus, and so when I grew up I did,” Auld laughs.     When he is not in the classroom,...

Kent State University student-athletes continue to succeed in the classroom, according to statistics for the Graduation Success Rates (GSR) released on Nov. 4 by the NCAA. Developed by the NCAA as part of its academic reform initiative, the GSR is used to assess the academic success of student-athletes. The GSR measures graduation rates at Division I institutions and includes students transferring into the institutions. The GSR also allows schools to subtract student-athletes who leave their institutions prior to graduation as long as they would have been academically eligible to compete ha...