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Student Life

Students living on the closed Kent State campus resident in the Stopher-Johnson residence hall complex.

When Â鶹´«Ã½ closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March, not all students living on the Kent Campus were able to leave. 

 

BioBlack Team Poses with their bacteria-dyed tote bad and dress dyed with bacterium

A team of Kent State students took home the Outstanding Science Award from the Biodesign Challenge Summit 2020 held in June.

Kent State Golden Flashes Women's Golf Team and Coach Lisa Strom

Today’s Flashes of Inspiration comes from Lisa Strom, Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s head women’s golf coach, who offers a pep talk to all in the university community struggling under the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic.

College of Communication & Information
Groupwork

Students in the class Communication in a Global Society worked in teams throughout the Spring 2020 semester to educate audiences about one specific aspect of globalization and ecology: fast fashion.

Female student in aeronautics lab

Senior Sydney Bihn finds her true calling throughout her time at Kent State and becomes the first female aerospace engineering graduate.

Aviation Art Contest Flyer

A century ago in 1920, The Ohio Flying School and Transport Company officially incorporated and opened Stow Field, now known as Â鶹´«Ã½ Airport, Andrew Paton Field. To celebrate its centennial and recognize it as the oldest continuously operating airport in Ohio, Dave Poluga, airport manager, has launched the Aviation Art Contest “100 Years of Aviation.â€

Autism Research is represented by an image of the brain

April’s observance as Autism Awareness Month is coming to a close, but research into the whys and hows of autism is always ongoing at Â鶹´«Ã½.

Michael N. Lehman, Ph.D., director of the Brain Health Research Institute at Kent State, said the university supports autism research that focuses on basic discoveries within the brain, as well as applied human research of students with autism, which makes Kent State’s body of research unique and diverse.

Mikey Indriolo

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? 

Student Parents Completing Their Journey

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, Â鶹´«Ã½ was one of the first schools to implement this plan on its campus.