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Global Presence

The May 4 Memorial on the Â鶹´«Ã½ Campus.

Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s School of Peace and Conflict Studies was created as a living memorial to the four students killed on May 4, 1970. 

As the university prepares to mark the 53rd anniversary of the shootings, the school’s director says honoring the legacy of May 4 is still key to the school’s identity and mission. 

Jeffrey Hallam teaching at PUCPR

Some Kent State faculty travel to PUCPR in Brazil to teach intensive, three-week modules.

Signpost on the campus of PUCPR in Curitiba, Brazil

A special university partnership connects two far-apart points on the globe.

Â鶹´«Ã½ students walk through Florence, Italy, as they receive a tour.

Â鶹´«Ã½ will be equipped to offer more financial assistance to students in need thanks to donors to a key area of the university’s ongoing comprehensive fundraising campaign. The Forever Brighter campaign includes a scholarship-support component, Prioritizing Student Success, that now stands at $142 million, surpassing the $100 million goal set at the campaign’s outset in October 2021.

Scenes from I HEART Travel Week

The Valentine’s Day-themed expo made it easy for students to discover, explore and fall in love with the many study abroad options available through Kent State.

Immersive I Heart Travel Exhibit at DI HUB Blank Lab

An immersive display at the DI Hub's Blank Lab provides a dynamic view of studying abroad.

PUCPR - Kent State's academic partner in Brazil.

Learn how to say the name of Kent State's academic partner university in Brazil and the city it's in the way the students and faculty there do. 

Student in the Immersive Study Abroad Exhibit in the DI HUB Blank Lab

Experience a week of informative and fun study abroad events during "I Heart Travel Week" at Kent State.

This map from the U.S. Geological Survey shows the earthquake and aftershocks that have hit Turkey and Syria.

Â鶹´«Ã½ students and faculty struggle to deal with the death and devastation that Monday's earthquakes caused to their home countries of Turkey and Syria.