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A year ago, Yeonmin Kim, Ph.D., ’13, a literature professor from Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea, was concluding his time as a visiting professor at Kent State University with one goal in mind: Create an exchange program between the two schools based on their historic campus tragedies.
After the eclipse, Flashes can do their part to promote sustainability by recycling their eclipse glasses for use by viewers of future eclipses around the world.
In late March, groups of Indian students on campus celebrated the popular and significant Hindu festival of Holi.
Women's Basketball player from Brazil, Bianca Juzzo, finds much to celebrate during her first year as a Golden Flash.
The assistant director of Kent State's International Admissions shared spectacular views from her visit to Colombia where she met with students and shared information about Kent State.
As part of Kent State's Dialogue and Difference: A New Understanding" initiative, faculty members from diverse backgrounds came together in an online panel to share their personal insights in navigating the impact of conflict and cultural and religious identity.
Kent State University 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 was followed by a panel discussion of students, faculty and staff talking about women’s issues and successes across their globe.
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.
A group of international students from Kent State experienced living history on a field trip with the university's English as a Second Language Program.
The 2023-24 academic year has been a life-changing one for Raiful Hasan, Ph.D., an assistant professor of computer science in the College of Arts and Sciences, who embarked on his first faculty position at Kent State last semester.
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.
A Kent State staffer's kindness helped international students who were far from their much warmer home weather an Ohio winter.
The “Leveraging Second Language Skills in the Professional World" panel discussion during I Heart Travel Week reinforced how students can use a second language to propel themselves into and throughout the professional world.
Molly Merryman, Ph.D., associate professor in Kent State University’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies, received a double dose of prestige recently when she was invited to speak at both the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford in England in the same week.
Satterfield Hall was filled with the sights, sounds and smells of Lunar New Year as Kent State University students gathered Feb. 14 to celebrate and learn to make Asian dumplings.
Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center is collaborating on a new global poem to pay tribute to the liquid that sustains life.
“Dear Body of Water,” Wick’s newest collaboration with the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center, invites writers to speak to the bodies of water that have shaped their lives.
Active military members are embracing online master’s degree programs in Kent State University’s College of Public Health for the flexibility and ease with which they can earn an advanced degree.
The Office of Global Education is hosting I Heart Travel Week Feb. 12-16 where students can learn more about education abroad, celebrate current and past students who have studied abroad, and engage with international activities on campus.
A Kent State staffer's aunt helped graduate students from Rwanda prepare for their first winter in northeast Ohio.
Kent State staff and student-athletes took a trip at the beginning of 2024 to Boneza, Rwanda, to give of themselves. But they never expected how much they would receive in return.