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Remembering May 4 - An Interview with Devo's Jerry Casale

“I had always been making art and music but the events of May 4th and beyond galvanized my creativity, infusing it with an existential anger and urgency that would otherwise not have happened. In short Devo and the idea of De-evolution as a manifesto would not exist without that defining historic trauma I experienced.” - Jerry Casale

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Kent State Students Create Documentaries Depicting 'College During Corona'

While locked down in their apartments or family homes, students in the Kent State course Journalism and Documentary are telling a story that future generations and historians will one day discuss: What was college life like when the coronavirus pandemic changed the world? 

May 4 Fashion Exhibitions

Two exhibitions at the Kent State University Museum explored the fashion divide of the ’60s and ’70s and the current day dialogue about social justice, political discourse, conflict resolution and war and peace.

CAED Student Awards 2019 / 2020

Congratulations to all of our Student Award Winners for the 2019 / 2020 Academic Year!

Herb Page Reminisces About His Time at Kent State

Former Kent State golf coach Herb Page recalled some of his fondest memories at the university in an interview with the Akron Beacon Journal recently.

CAVS Helps Student Parents With Toolkit

A basic tool kit includes things such as hammers, screwdrivers, nails and more. The Family Friendly Campus Toolkit offers so much more, and Kent State's Center for Adults and Veterands Services took full advantage of it to help adult and parenting students. The Family Friendly Campus Toolkit, created by Endicott College, is a free-to-use tool for universities that assists and informs schools of ways to strategically support parenting students at their individual institutions. As of 2018, Kent State University was one of the first schools to implement this plan on its campus.

Perspective on a Pandemic

Kent State epidemiologist and science communicator Tara C.

Visiting May 4 Sites Through Augmented Reality

An interdisciplinary team from Kent State is enabling users to look back in time from the vantage point of today’s technology.

Listening to the Voices of May 4

Through the Armed With Our Voices digital exhibition and the May 4th Voices Radio Play, we explore the history of student protest and respond with our own reflections on peace and conflict transformation.

Mapping May 4

The Mapping May 4 web app has an interactive aerial map of the Kent Campus as it was in May 1970—and features oral histories of people who were present at various locations across campus and in the town.

Making use of the May 4 Collection

Much of Kent State University Libraries’ May 4 Collection is now available online—and is used by an international community of researchers, film makers, media professionals and more.