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Shared Sky is a Wick Poetry Center project for the April 8, 2024 Eclipse

The April 8 total solar eclipse has sparked a new opportunity for interactive poetry from Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center.

The college name goes on Crawford Hall.

The future home of the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship continues to take shape on E. Main Street. 

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2024 MAC Men's Indoor Track and Field Champs

Kent State's Men's Indoor Track and Field team has won the Mid-American Conference Championship!

Map of the Connecticut Western Reserve

There was no media coverage. There were no websites teeming with information. Not a single pair of paper eclipse glasses were handed out for safe viewing. 

The last time Kent experienced a total solar eclipse was nothing like the lead up to this year’s April 8 event. 

Sukeina at the Kent State University Museum

Named for the designer's mother, Sukeina features stunning fashions by Kent State University School of Fashion and Merchandising Hall of Fame inductee Omar Salam. 

"Dialogue and Difference" explores the topics of freedom of expression and academic freedom.

Understanding academic freedom and freedom of expression were the topics of Tuesday’s “Dialogue and Difference” session, part of a series designed to engage the Kent State University community in discussions that will advance our core values of freedom of expression, respect and kindness in all we do.

the Maj Ragain Poetry Park at Wick Poetry Center

Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center marks its 40th anniversary this year with three days of poetry events and a gala planned for September to celebrate the program that has provided a platform for creative voices across the globe.

AI-generated images of exaggeratedly screaming male and female gender nurses portray nursing students’ fears of entering the profession.

Kent State University’s College of Nursing Assistant Professor Janet Reed, Ph.D., wanted to know how nursing students’ biggest fears about going into the nursing profession would translate into AI-generated art. The resulting images that portray a physical representation of the students’ worries about their future profession are prompting discussions.

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UPAA award-winning December 2023 Commencement photo

A photo by one of Kent State’s staff photographers was recognized by the University Photographer’s Association of America.

Kent State alumna and designer Anne Skoch

Most college students start to worry about job interviews as their graduation day nears. But before Kent State University alumna Anne (Skoch) Johnson had even entered her senior year, her post-graduation employment plans were already mapped out.