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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has appointed Lara Boman of Ashland, Ohio, to a two-year term as a Graduate Student Trustee of the ����ɫ��ҹ University Board of Trustees.

����ɫ��ҹ University Paris American Academy will not be open for students for fall 2023, but the program will resume operations in Paris, France, in January 2024. The students who registered for fall 2023 classes at the Paris American Academy can attend the New York City Fashion campus or ����ɫ��ҹ Florence in Italy. 

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 ����ɫ��ҹ University professors. 

����ɫ��ҹ canines and their human companions came to the Kent Campus for the Dog Days of Summer. 

Once again, ����ɫ��ҹ University has been named one of the Best Employers for Women in a nationwide ranking by Forbes and marketing research firm Statista. ����ɫ��ҹ has been named to the list for the sixth consecutive year, having been included each year since Forbes began publishing the Best Employers for Women list in 2018.

Honors College ranked high when graduate Josh Budd was deciding whether to attend ����ɫ��ҹ because it offered him a challenging experience through its thesis programs and its education-abroad program. Studying abroad helped him develop more empathy and connection with people of backgrounds different from his own. 

As Ohio’s Aug. 8 special election approaches, it’s important for students to know that polling places across the state will only accept a valid photo ID, such as an Ohio driver’s license, to vote.

����ɫ��ҹ University is hosting 39 international graduate students for the Fulbright Pre-Academic Program, a monthlong immersion in American higher education and culture. 

����ɫ��ҹ University graduate Erik Gomez, who earned his bachelor’s degree in political science in May, spoke at Spring Commencement about his journey as a first-generation Latino-American student.

Hot air balloons and the Budweiser Clydesdales visited ����ɫ��ҹ University at Stark. 

For Madelyn Orcutt, an interior designer who works for Richardson Design in Cleveland, the ����ɫ��ҹ’s personal touch, beautiful campus and proximity to her Canton, Ohio, home influenced her decision to attend the university.

����ɫ��ҹ University researchers are beginning to use a new high-tech microscope that will allow them to view the structure of cell tissue on a more intense level. 

Cameron Lee, Ph.D., assistant professor of geography at ����ɫ��ҹ University, shares his expertise on the possible reasons behind the spate of recent extreme weather events happening across the globe. Lee, who was recently interviewed on the topic during the “Ray Horner Morning Show” on WAKR-AM in Akron, Ohio, specializes in climate and weather change. 

Non-exercise activity thermogenesis – otherwise known as NEAT – is an easy way to stay healthy as we age. Colleen Novak, Ph.D., associate professor of biological sciences at ����ɫ��ҹ, spoke to Will Stone of NPR’s “All Things Considered” about this highly underrated way to fight the ongoing battle with sedentary lifestyles.

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 ����ɫ��ҹ 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 ����ɫ��ҹ 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 ����ɫ��ҹ at Preview KSU.

For five decades, the Kent Blossom Music Festival has nurtured young artists from all over the globe, giving them the opportunity to grow as musicians and collaborate with some of the world’s most talented musicians and teachers. With 12 performances on the calendar, the 2023 season of the Kent Blossom Music Festival runs through Aug. 6.

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

First-generation, non-traditional student Yalanda Cunningham knows that ����ɫ��ҹ has her back. After graduating with her associate's degree from a community college in Kalamazoo, Cunningham decided to finish her bachelor’s degree at ����ɫ��ҹ University. “I believe you can go so much further in your life,” Cunningham said, “if you had a solid background in education,” she said. 

Jailynn Taylor didn’t originally set out to write about the fashion industry. She set out to design for it. But today, Taylor is living her dream working in the fast-paced world of the fashion industry as a contracted commerce and beauty writer for InStyle and Shape.com in New York City.