Community Impact
»ÆÉ«Ö±²¥ has been recognized for the 15th consecutive year with the Tree Campus Higher Education recognition (previously called the Tree Campus USA designation).
A federal grant will help restart a major improvement project for a highly trafficked area of downtown Kent. Changes to East Main Street will include wider sidewalks, bike and pedestrian paths and crossings, and two roundabouts.
»ÆÉ«Ö±²¥-sponsored math camp helps to prepare high school students for plentiful STEM jobs in Ohio.
Teachers from northeast Ohio and from thousands of miles away in sub-Saharan Africa have been learning to create inexpensive math teaching tools thanks to the efforts of some »ÆÉ«Ö±²¥ professors.
»ÆÉ«Ö±²¥ canines and their human companions came to the Kent Campus for the Dog Days of Summer.
Hot air balloons and the Budweiser Clydesdales visited »ÆÉ«Ö±²¥ at Stark.
Farnaz Fatemi, poet laureate of Santa Cruz County, California, was awarded a $50,000 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets that she will use in partnership with »ÆÉ«Ö±²¥'s Wick Poetry Center to produce a series of teen poetry workshops. Fatemi is an Iranian-American poet and writer and the author of "Sister Tongue," published in 2022 by the »ÆÉ«Ö±²¥ Press. She was the winner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the Wick Poetry Center for a poet's first book of poems.
Every summer, the Kent Campus welcomes hundreds of high school students and their parents to discover »ÆÉ«Ö±²¥ at Preview KSU.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, few disciplines have seen as many changes as psychology. In order to help students address these emerging challenges, »ÆÉ«Ö±²¥â€™s Department of Psychological Sciences is offering a slate of courses relevant to the changing trends impacting mental health today.
Time in nature, the spirit of competition and bonding are just a few of the many benefits of a golf outing. For the past 25 years, the Glenn Davis Golf League has played a vital role in building a deeper sense of community for »ÆÉ«Ö±²¥, on and off the green.