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As of fall 2013, the Music and Speech Center has a name change. The building is now known as the Â鶹´«Ã½ Center for the Performing Arts.
Information technology drives our global economy and promises transformational approaches to the world’s most serious challenges, including healthcare, education and environmental. Yet a smaller percentage of American high school and university students take computer science…
The Â鶹´«Ã½ Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, Sept. 18. The meeting will be held in the new Â鶹´«Ã½ Hotel and Conference Center in downtown Kent. The Board will convene at 2 p.m. in the McGilvrey Conference Room…
For the Fall 2013 Semester, Â鶹´«Ã½ has set a new record, attracting the biggest and highest-achieving freshman class at the Kent Campus in the university’s 103-year history. With the release of the university’s official 15th day census data for the Fall 2013…
On Wednesday, Sept. 11, at 11 a.m., Â鶹´«Ã½'s Department of Public Safety will test the emergency notification system on the Kent Campus.

The purpose of this annual exercise is to familiarize students and employees with building evacuations and precautions to be…
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The 32nd Annual Black Squirrel Festival took place Friday, Sept. 6, from 2-8 p.m. at the Kent Campus on the Student Green and Risman Plaza. The Black Squirrel Festival is one of Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s most beloved and popular traditions that attracts more than 3,000 students,…
Â鶹´«Ã½ Professor of Anthropology C. Owen Lovejoy, Ph.D., has joined the university’s Presidential Search Committee.
“In our planning for the presidential search, trustees recognized the unique perspective and value that Professor Lovejoy would bring to our…
Â鶹´«Ã½ and Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute will co-fund two pilot research projects as part of an initiative to enhance collaborations between the two institutions. Following a competitive review process, two teams comprising researchers from each…
To meet current U.S. coal demand through surface mining, an area of the Central Appalachians the size of Washington, D.C., would need to be mined every 81 days.