Student Life

Living Learning Studio in Prentice Hall

Living. Learning. Creating. For students in Prentice Hall, they can now do all three in the same space.On Tuesday, Feb. 27, the Living in The Arts Living-Learning Community, located in Prentice Hall, opened the doors to its new and improved studio space with an open house to explore and learn about all the new attributes of the updated cre...

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Students hold up their Feminine Urge to Inspire fabric vision boards

What do refrigerators, fire escapes and windshield wipers all have in common? They were all invented by women.  Aligned with Women's History Month, The Feminine Urge to Inspire workshop explored the inventions and inspiration of women during the Design Innovation Fellows workshop, which took place on Wednesday, March 13 at Kent State ...

Ice cream sampling event at Eastway.

  University Culinary Services presented three consecutive Scoops and Samples ice cream sampling events at the The Hub in the Kent Student Center, Rosie's in Tri-Towers and at Eastway Center to give Flashes a taste of three original ice cream flavors. Through an online survey, tasters had the opportunity to choose their favorite ...

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DI Hub's Intro to Simple Circuits

When a positive charge meets a negative charge, you get a circuit. On March 11, Lilly Kensicki, a sophomore mechatronics engineering technology major, took students on an electrifying journey at the Intro to Simple Circuits workshop located in the Design Innovation Hub.  {"preview_thumbnail":"/s3/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_previ...

The college name goes on Crawford Hall.

  Crawford Hall takes another step toward completion!  The construction team had a big task in installing the letters on the outside of the future home of Kent State's Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship.  If all continues on schedule, the new facility should be ready to welcome studen...

Religions in times of conflict.

“We are living in a time of cracks,” said Chaya Kessler, director of Kent State University’s Jewish Studies program. She was referencing the song “Anthem” by Leonard Cohen that says “There is a crack in everything; That’s how the light gets in.”Kessler said, “We are living in a time where we are looking for the light. I feel like I live in...

Hannah Petrosky, a member of the Scientistas, is training to take pictures of the eclipse with grant funded equipment.

Hannah Petrosky joined the Kent State chapter of the Scientistas Foundation in the fall of 2023 at the urging of a friend, Ella Spalding, as a way to nurture her interest in stargazing and astronomy.  Petrosky had perfect timing because now she finds herself involved in one of the most anticipated celestial events in North Americ...

a hand holding a credit card and a hand holding a gift bag exchange

“Temu used y'all's credit card info to buy two Super Bowl ads,” was one of the trends swarming social media following this year’s big game after the online marketplace spent an estimated $7 million to run multiple commercials.The ads were heavily discussed and debated on social media, and many Kent State University students and professors ...

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Cesquinn Curtis

Cesquinn Curtis is back on familiar ground – the Kent State University campus.The associate vice president for student life spent seven years at Kent State in various roles serving students in University College and the Division of Student Life before departing for an opportunity with Texas State University for two years. Then, in 2021, an...

Sonia Karkare, program director for the Kent State Women's Center, introduces the discussion panel for International Women's Day.

Kent State University's Women's Center celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8 with a poster presentation to allow international students the chance to highlight women in their home countries and a service project to aid Days for Girls. The poster presentation, held at the Center for Undergraduate Excellence, was followed by a...