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Blue and Gold Pride Days are back at Â鶹¾«Ñ¡! Â鶹¾«Ñ¡faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the university are encouraged to promote university spirit and pride by wearing blue and gold colors. Â鶹¾«Ñ¡introduced Blue and Gold Pride Days last fall as a way to unite members of the university community and promote Â鶹¾«Ñ¡pride. The tradition continues at Â鶹¾«Ñ¡this fall, beginning Friday, Sept. 4, which happens to be College Colors Day, and continues through the school year. IT’S ABOUT KENT STATE PRIDE For Amanda Bevington, a Â鶹¾«Ñ¡c...

Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ at Stark Theatre has announced open auditions for the first theatrical production of the season, Almost, Maine, written by John Cariani and directed by Â鶹¾«Ñ¡Stark Assistant Professor of Theatre and Theatre Director Brian Newberg. Auditions are open to everyone, including students and community persons. On a cold winter’s evening, under the magnetic magic of the northern lights, several couples in the sleepy, mythical town of Almost, Maine experience love’s joys and perils through a series of romantic, whimsical, unpredictable and often hilarious vignettes. Hearts a...

Â鶹¾«Ñ¡â€™s College of Business Administration introduces the Firestone Lecture Series in Finance with the inaugural presentation scheduled for Friday, Sept. 18. The series is sponsored by the college’s Department of Finance. The presentations will be lecture-based and research-oriented. The department’s goal is to feature innovative finance research that provides real-world industry applications. Â鶹¾«Ñ¡will work with other area universities including Youngstown State University, Case Western Reserve University, University of Akron and Cleveland State University to showcase ...

A half century ago, the Warren-Youngstown area was still defined by its mostly blue-collar workforce as the region proudly continued to forge its place as a center of steel production. But not everyone yearned for a life defined by what the mills had to offer. Rather than do as their fathers before them did, a small group of young people wanted something different – to be something different. And while many weren’t sure exactly what they wanted, they knew they wanted to be stimulated, to do something others hadn’t yet done. It was Jack Brizzi who was there to provide the spark. “I’ve alway...

Canton, Ohio is the global destination of a lifetime for 11 students from Shenzhen, China, marking a first for a Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ regional campus. On August 31, the Stark Campus in Jackson Township will be the first of the Kent State’s seven regional campuses to reach across the world and partner with an international university, China’s Shenzhen Polytechnic, hosting students and a faculty member for a semester. Each visiting student will enroll in 12 credit hours of English as a second language courses at Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ at Stark. They will also be educated in American culture and...

An opening celebration to formally introduce Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ at Stark’s Science and Nursing Building, the campus’s seventh major structure, was held on Thursday, Aug. 27. The 41,140-square-foot building is Â鶹¾«Ñ¡Stark’s anchor for their science and health-related disciplines. Faculty members and classes from nursing, biological sciences, physics and geology departments are housed in the new facility. The festive event also celebrated the renovation of 5,250 square feet of chemistry laboratory space in the existing Main Hall building that connects to the Science and Nursing Bui...

The School of Communication Studies welcomes Aaron Bacue as a new faculty member. Bacue comes to Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ with 17 years of experience teaching communication at the university level, most recently at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. Bacue joins the school as an assistant professor, specializing in interpersonal, relational and non-verbal communication. Bacue discovered the posting for the assistant professor position, and, being an Ohio native, decided to research the position and found many aspects of Â鶹¾«Ñ¡and the School of Communication Studies appealed t...

A decade ago this week, Andrew Curtis, Ph.D., geography professor in Kent State’s College of Arts and Sciences, promised the people of New Orleans that he would continue to return and document the recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina. After the hurricane, Curtis used specialized cameras, equipped with GPS, to help direct rescue helicopters and medical crews through the flooded and impassable areas. He also used the cameras to record and document the changing landscape from year-to-year. Watch here as he shares some of the video with WEWS TV and WOIO TV to show how archiving the disas...

Members of the university community as well as family members of freshman students can watch a live stream of the Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ Convocation on Friday, Aug. 28. The event starts at 10:30 a.m. and is held in the Memorial Athletics and Convocation Center.  This special ceremony marks the beginning of the university’s first-year students’ college careers and their entrance into higher education. With this rite of passage, the Class of 2019 is now officially part of the Â鶹¾«Ñ¡family. Watch the live stream of Convocation ...