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*For media planning purposes, ������Ƶ is providing this monthly email that outlines all planned events for the upcoming month related to the 50th commemoration of May 4. For the latest updates on events, visit www.kent.edu/may4kentstate50/event-schedule. May 4: Looking Through the Looking Glass – Opening Reception (Dec. 3, 4 p.m., University Library, Room 312) Highly Visual: The opening reception of May 4: Through the Looking Glass, an immersive and interactive exhibition that seeks to open up new spaces for thinking and feeling the profound legacies of May 4, 1970, will take ...

Researchers at ������Ƶ were featured on Spectrum News 1 discussing the development and implementation of their drug prevention infrastructure for three Ohio counties. According to Spectrum News 1, Ohio is leading the nation when it comes to opioid-related deaths. In 2017, Ohio came in second for the most drug overdoses. Researchers at ������Ƶ are teaming up to tackle this problem.   Through a $1.5 million grant, ������Ƶ State researchers Deric Kenne, associate professor in the College of Public Health and Ruoming Jin, professor in the Department of Computer S...

������Ƶ constitutional law professor, Chris Banks, Ph.D., recaps the impeachment inquiry hearings from Nov. 19 with WKYC lead anchor Russ Mitchell.   Banks teaches undergraduate and graduate courses ranging from American Politics to law, justice and society. His undergraduate instruction includes teaching courses on constitutional law, civil rights and liberties, the judicial process, American political theory, and American politics. Before receiving his doctorate, he practiced law in civil and criminal litigation.   He said in his interview with WKYC that he does n...

By ������Ƶ Wired, Kimberly Fisher, General Assignment reporter ������Ƶ State was included in the 2019 edition of Princeton’s annual Guide to Green Colleges.  Princeton profiled 413 universities out of the 700 that it surveyed in 2018 and 2019 for “their strong commitments to green practices and programs,” according to a press release from Princeton. These colleges were pulled from a survey done in 2018 that polled hundreds of administrators from four-year colleges about “their institutions’ commitments to the environment and sustainability,” according to a press release from ������Ƶ State...

Artifacts of May 4, 1970 – a survivor’s jacket, a gas mask and gun shell casing – tell a story that’s not often accessible to the general public. ������Ƶ Assistant Professor Abe Avnisan and students in his digital sciences capstone course will bring these artifacts’ stories to life via the exhibit “May 4: Through the Looking Glass.” Throughout the semester, students have been using photogrammetry – a technique that involves taking a number of overlapping photos and using a software to create three-dimensional images showing the object’s depth – to recreate di...

Professors from ������Ƶ's School of Health Sciences, Drs. Ellen Glickman, Laurie Wagner, and Natalie Caine-Bish, traveled to Zimbabwe, Africa this past September to present at a conference held by the Sport Leaders Institute of Zimbabwe (SLIZ). SLIZ is an organization created to support the advancement of Zimbabwe’s sport industry through sport leader development programs, sports camps, and other educational activities. Due to the success with events and classes at home, SLIZ is currently seeking to expand their offerings to online markets to increase opportunities for micro cre...

The ������Ƶ Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, Dec. 4. The Board is scheduled to convene at 10 a.m. in the George Urban Board of Trustees Conference Room, which is located on the second floor of the University Library. Trustees will retire into executive session from 8-9:50 a.m. in the Urban Conference Room to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.” The Board will meet as a whole. No committee meetings will be held.   The Board meeting agenda will be available at www.kent.edu/bot/meetings. # # # ...

On Tuesday, ������Ƶ State Trumbull officially added Women’s and Men’s Bowling to its athletic program. Dale Johnson of Champion was named head coach.  Johnson has competed at state and national levels since he was 18. He began coaching Champion High School in 2010 and became head coach in 2014, the same year they won an Ohio High School Athletic Association state title.  The campus revived its athletic program in 2017 with Women’s and Men’s Cross Country.  “We want to offer local student-athletes an inexpensive option to earn a degree from ������Ƶ while they ...