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PBS News Anchor Gwen Ifill to Help Dedicate Kent State University’s May 4 Visitors Center
PBS news anchor Gwen Ifill will join Kent State University to mark its 43rd annual commemoration of May 4, 1970, with the dedication of the May 4 Visitors Center. The center, which tells the May 4 story set against the political and cultural changes of the 1960s, will be dedicated Saturday, May 4, w…
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Kent State’s May 4 Visitors Center Now Open
New center tells the May 4 story, set against the political and cultural changes of the 1960s Kent State University officially opened its much-anticipated May 4 Visitors Center on Saturday, Oct. 20, as part of the university’s Homecoming celebration. The public was invited to experience the center’s…
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Scholar of the Month
Scholar of the MonthDeepraj MukherjeeAssistant ProfessorCollege of Business AdministrationKent State University at Stark2012-present Deepraj Mukherjee is an assistant professor of economics in the College of Business Administration at Kent State University at Stark. His research focuses on internati…
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Trained Heroes
Kent State University students Samantha Phillips, a junior athletic training major from Euclid, Ohio, and Essien Cobham, a senior mathematics and computer science major from Kent, Ohio, were at the right place at the right time to save a life, but it almost didn’t happen. On Nov. 4, Phillip…
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Trumbull Geologist Maps Scope of Massive Landslide
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Truly Transformational
The largest single gift ever made to Kent State University to fund only scholarships will transform the Photojournalism program in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC). Wallace (Wally) Hagedorn, took one photojournalism class at Kent State 73 years ago and was forever changed. He…
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Education Abroad
An education-abroad trip to China this past summer got Kent State University student Garmai Matthew started on the path to actualizing her dream of promoting sustainable fashion. Matthew, an economics major with an international business and Chinese minor, along with five other Kent State students c…
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A National Treasure
For Kent State University Professor of Geology Abdul Shakoor, Ph.D., studying the stability of Mount Rushmore, visited by nearly three million people each year, was a lifelong dream. So, in 2013, with the help of his graduate student, Lindsay Poluga, the two of them reached out to t…
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JMC Proud
Chris Waugaman, (MA '14), joined an elite group of high school journalism educators when he was named the Dow Jones News Fund's 2014 National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year at the National High School Journalism Convention in Washington, D.C. Waugaman has been teaching journalism for …
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Diversity Speaker Series: "Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars"
Brave New Films will screen its newest documentary, “Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars,” at Kent State University Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014. The organization is a champion for social justice issues, educating the public through screenings of its six feature films. Including more than 70 interviews, “U…
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