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Professor Karl Kosko shows a Kent-area public school teacher how to use a 3-D printer.

Creativity + Technology = Help for Math Teachers Here and Abroad

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 ¹ú²úÂ×Àí professors. 

Tags: Community & Society , Global Reach , Community Impact , Organizational Sustainability

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Dog Days of Summer 2023

IN A FLASH: Four-Legged Flashes on Campus

¹ú²úÂ×Àí canines and their human companions came to the Kent Campus for the Dog Days of Summer. 

Tags: Alumni , Division of Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement , Community Impact , Community & Society , University News , Police Services

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The ¹ú²úÂ×Àí balloon at the Balloon Classic.

IN A FLASH: Balloons and Horses on Campus

Hot air balloons and the Budweiser Clydesdales visited ¹ú²úÂ×Àí at Stark. 

Tags: ¹ú²úÂ×Àí at Stark , Community Impact , Community & Society , Admissions

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Farnaz Fatemi, Poet Laureate Fellow, of Santa Cruz County, California, in partnership with ¹ú²úÂ×Àí's Wick Poetry Center and several local Santa Cruz County organizations, will produce a series of nine monthly pop-up teen poetry workshops.

Wick Prize Winner Farnaz Fatemi Receives Poet Laureate Fellowship From Academy of American Poets

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 ¹ú²úÂ×Àí'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 ¹ú²úÂ×Àí 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.

Tags: Arts & Culture , Nationally Distinctive , Community Impact , Wick Poetry Center , ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Press

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Preview KSU July 21, 2023

IN A FLASH: Preview KSU!

Every summer, the Kent Campus welcomes hundreds of high school students and their parents to discover ¹ú²úÂ×Àí at Preview KSU.

Tags: Housing , Financial Aid , Students First , Community Impact , Admissions

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Drugs and Behavior: How Societal Trends Impact Addiction

Since the beginning of the pandemic, few disciplines have seen as many changes as psychology. In order to help students address these emerging challenges, ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Department of Psychological Sciences is offering a slate of courses relevant to the changing trends impacting mental health today. 

Tags: University News , Community Impact , Community & Society

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Twenty-Five Years of ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Connections Made on the Green

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 ¹ú²úÂ×Àí, on and off the green.

Tags: Sports , Community Impact

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Liz Piatt, Ph.D., assistant dean for academic diversity success in University College; Lamar R. Hylton, Ph.D., senior vice president of student affairs; Eboni J. Pringle, Ph.D., senior associate vice president and dean of University College; Randall Lennox, senior institutional research information officer, and Melanie Jones, director of student success programs.

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Paves the Way for First-Generation Student Success

¹ú²úÂ×Àí is one of 21 institutions that has advanced to the First Scholars phase of the First Scholars Network. Faculty and staff are hard at work to provide a higher-quality experience for first generation students. 

Tags: University News , Community & Society , Community Impact , Nationally Distinctive , Student Life , Students First

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¹ú²úÂ×Àí Alumna Capt. Stephanie Johnson

Showing Students How to Soar

As the first Black woman to graduate from ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s flight program in 1991, Capt. Stephanie Johnson knows what it takes to aim high for a dream and reach it. Now, she wants other young students from diverse backgrounds to be able to envision and achieve their biggest dreams as well.

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Educators from Stow-Munroe Falls City School District will attend a peace education conference in Kigali, Rwanda. Pictured (from left to right) are: Jeffrey Hartmann, Ph.D., principal of Stow-Munroe Falls High School; Kristy Prough, BA ’99, MED ’02, EDS ’04, assistant superintendent and director of special services; Associate Principal Amanda Murray; and Assistant Principal Evelyn Haught, BSE ’07.

Ohio Educators Heading to ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Peace Conference in Rwanda

Jeffrey Hartmann, Ph.D., principal of Stow-Munroe Falls High School, said he was interested in attending the conference to learn skills to deal with his school district’s changing landscape. 

Tags: Global Reach , Community & Society , University News , Global Presence , Community Impact , School of Peace and Conflict Studies , Read Center for International and Intercultural Education , College of Arts and Sciences , College of Education, Health and Human Services

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