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Stan and Tom Wick Prize Winner: Farnaz Fatemi's Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship

The Academy of American Poets Awards $1.1 Million to 23 Poets Laureate Across the United States

The Academy of American Poets

IN A FLASH: Preview KSU!

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

Young Musicians Get a Chance to Bloom

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.

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, �鶹��ý’s Department of Psychological Sciences is offering a slate of courses relevant to the changing trends impacting mental health today. 

‘I Don't Believe Kent State Will Ever Not Help You’

First-generation, non-traditional student Yalanda Cunningham knows that Kent State 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 �鶹��ý. “I believe you can go so much further in your life,” Cunningham said, “if you had a solid background in education,” she said. 

Designing - Then Writing - for Success

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.

IN A FLASH SPECIAL: Students on Safari

Kent State's Kigali Summer Institute students saw giraffes, hippos and more in a tour of a National Park in Rwanda.

Kent State-Sponsored Peace Conference Unites Delegates from Across the Globe

Delegates attending Peace Education in an Era of Crisis spent three days learning from each other and from the example of the Rwandan people on how to create lasting peace. The conference, which took place July 11-13 in Kigali, Rwanda, was sponsored by �鶹��ý’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies, Kent State’s Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education, the University of Rwanda’s Centre for Conflict Management, and the Aegis Trust, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending genocide and other atrocities in the world. 

Celebrating Kent State's Air Race Classic Winners and Flight Instructor of the Year

This is the second year in a row that the Flying Flashes have won the Air Race Classic and the Certified Flight Instructor of the year awards. Last year’s flight instructor competition was also won by one of our female students.

IN A FLASH SPECIAL: Exploring Rwanda

Kent State students in Rwanda visited an opportunity center for women and one of the country's national parks. 

Hands-on Experience Leads to Entrepreneurial Success

As an entrepreneurship major at Kent State, Schumann learned operations, production and finance in the classroom and gained on-the-job experience working with an entrepreneur in Cleveland.  In 2020, Schumann of Chagrin Falls gained the opportunity to put his Kent State education to work when he and his wife Marisa Sergi-Schumann acquired L’uva Bella Winery and Brands, a company that the Sergi family started more than 15 years ago.  

National Expert on Peace and Conflict Studies Says Time Was Right for Kent State Peace Conference

Barbara J. Wien, a senior professorial lecturer in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C., where she teaches alternatives to war and violence, was fresh out of college when she made her first visit to what was then, �鶹��ý’s Center for Peaceful Change. She was both a keynote workshop presenter and an active participant in the Kent State-sponsored conference, “Peace Education in an Era of Crisis,” which took place July 11-13 in Kigali.