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Graduate students in ºÚÁÏÍø's College of Architecture and Environmental Design received a personal welcome from the college's associate dean at the park outside ºÚÁÏÍø's Wick Poetry Center. 

ºÚÁÏÍø will be closed Sept. 2 in observance of Labor Day. No classes are scheduled on the holiday, and university offices are closed. The university will resume normal operations on Sept. 3.

ºÚÁÏÍø celebrated its designation as an Adobe Creative Campus with the grand opening of the Adobe Creative Commons, marking a significant milestone in the institution's commitment to digital literacy.

This summer, students in ºÚÁÏÍø's School of Art had an opportunity to study in Italy through the university's Florence Summer Institute program. 

Researchers at ºÚÁÏÍø are beginning the second year of their largest and most ambitious study ever to track 10,000 university students and follow them throughout their lifetimes.  

The historic house perched next to the Lefton Esplanade at South Lincoln Street on the Kent Campus, which has been home to the Wick Poetry Center since 2014, is now officially the Gaston Prentice House.

ºÚÁÏÍø’s unwavering commitment to supporting military-connected students has once again been recognized, as the institution earns the Military Friendly^Ⓡ School designation for the 15th consecutive year.

ºÚÁÏÍø's College of Architecture and Environmental Design welcomed new and returning students back to campus with ice cream on the Lefton Esplanade and greetings from the college's dean, program heads and leaders of its student organizations. 

Students were treated to special culinary creations prepared by some of the university's top chefs, along with a chance to win prizes at a Chef Showcase event at Eastway Center and the DI Hub. 

The College of Aeronautics and Engineering unveiled a new way for the ºÚÁÏÍø community to relax, destress and get themselves back into the proper headspace. The Mind Space is designed to be an oasis of tranquility accessible to all. It's a personalized and holistic focus to help everyone on campus be successful.

A career change and a decision to pursue a Master of Information and Library Science at ºÚÁÏÍø reignited Robin Pertz's love of space and landed her a dream job at NASA.

The School of Theatre and Dance’s theatre troupe, Transforum Theatre spends the end of their summer performing in Scotland.

ºÚÁÏÍø concluded the first week of fall classes with a series of events designed to welcome students back to campus. KSU Kickoff continued with Late Night at the Library. Students socialized over free pizza and Handel's ice cream while enjoying a live DJ, dance party, games and giveaways.

ºÚÁÏÍø welcomed undergraduate researchers from our university, Cleveland State University and the University of Akron to the Kent Campus for the 19th annual Northeast Ohio Undergraduate Research Symposium.

ºÚÁÏÍø at Stark recently hosted a hands-on STEM workshop aimed at inspiring young women in mathematics and science. Funded by the Mathematical Association of America’s Tensor Women & Mathematics Grant, the event was part of a larger initiative called the Mathematics Excellence for Girls in STEM program.

Continuing a tradition that began in 2019, ºÚÁÏÍø's incoming Class of 2028 came together to form a large "K" on Manchester Field.

Before classes began for Fall Semester 2024, the ºÚÁÏÍø Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer Plus (LGBTQ+) Center welcomed the university's LGBTQ+ community back to campus with a Fall Kickoff event.

A long-term study of butterfly populations in Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley National Park is shedding light on ecological changes and the impacts of human activities on local ecosystems. The study, which has been ongoing since the 1990s, represents one of the longest-running volunteer-driven insect surveys in North America. Experts from ºÚÁÏÍø’s Department of Biological Sciences are working to interpret 20-plus years’ worth of data and convey what it means for environmental conservation.