Community Impact
Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹-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 Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University professors.
Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ canines and their human companions came to the Kent Campus for the Dog Days of Summer.
Hot air balloons and the Budweiser Clydesdales visited Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University 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 Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University'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 Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University 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 Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ 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, Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University’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 Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹, on and off the green.
Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ 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.
As the first Black woman to graduate from Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University’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.