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

University and student leaders share their personal insights into America's current unrest and whether protests will lead to lasting change. 

A ��ɫֱ�� student is gaining recognition for a photo she took that captures an African American Cleveland police officer shedding a tear as he came face to face with demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis Police custody.

Junior journalism student Sean Fitzgerald shares what it’s like being a resident student advisor, co-hosting a sports radio show and living on the autism spectrum.

Timothy Mikes is a graduate student in ��ɫֱ��’s College of Public Health with a specialty in epidemiology. He’s also on the autism spectrum and using his perspective to enhance the university experience for other students with autism spectrum disorder.

��ɫֱ�� was to move all classes online, causing surrounding businesses to do the same, like WKSU. “WKSU began planning for potential disruptions at the beginning of March,” News Director Andrew Meyer said. “Within two weeks, it became clear that WKSU would need to take action on those plans.”

Before May 4, 1970, students at ��ɫֱ�� were just regular students enjoying time together, performing, volunteering, and advocating for issues they believed in. Thanks to digital archives of the Daily ��ɫֱ��r and the department of Special Collections and Archives, here is a look into the life of ��ɫֱ�� students in the late 1960s and the days before the tragic events that would change the campus forever.

Meditative practices are bringing the ��ɫֱ�� community together, even from the comfort of their own home. ��ɫֱ�� of Wellness has moved its Meditation Across Campus sessions online, in an effort to continue the sessions despite the COVID-19 global pandemic.

David Hassler is the director of the Wick Poetry Center, where he oversees the local and national Wick projects, works with students and collaborates with other programs across campus. We asked him 10 questions about Kent, ��ɫֱ��, poetry and, of course, how he's keeping himself — and the ��ɫֱ�� Community — busy during the pandemic.

The words “biology” and “design” might not typically intertwine; however, ��ɫֱ��’s Biodesign Challenge course was created to challenge the idea that the two separate disciplines could not collaborate.