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������Ƶ’s SecureIT provides training, information and online tutorials to help you protect your identity and devices. Ensure that your digital identity is properly safeguarded by visiting www.kent.edu/is/secureit and clicking the Security Training tab for a variety of online training tutorials, including basic security awareness, identity protection, password management and phisLink to contenthing. For more information, contact security@kent.edu or call 330-672-5566. ...

������Ƶ’s Office of Sexual and Relationship Violence and Support Services is the recipient of three grants to launch campuswide awareness and prevention initiatives surrounding sexual harassment and assault, relationship violence and stalking. The three grants total approximately $450,000. Each grant has a focus that corresponds with the initiatives it will fund on campus. The Violence Against Women Act Campus Programs grant allocates $300,000 over three years for Prevention Education and Awareness. The grant is given through the Office on Violence Against Women. Read more ...

Area residents can have water samples tested for free, thanks to a research project being conducted by Dr. Qunxing Ding, associate professor of biology at ������Ƶ at East Liverpool. Ding is seeking water samples from areas within city limits, as well as from surrounding communities, for an independent study on water quality. He intends to geographically map samples to determine if there are any correlations with location and water quality. “Water content in the human body is about 65 percent and may be more than 70 percent in children. All the metabolic processes, including dig...

Join us this Thursday, April 13, at 6:00 pm at the Akron Art Museum for the first public poetry reading by the participants of our Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders project. The project, made possible by a major grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, has allowed teaching artists from the Wick Poetry Center to engage the refugee and immigrant populations in the Akron, Ohio community in a cross-cultural, intergenerational conversation through poetry and graphic design. Working with Project Learn, Urban Vision, and the International Institute of Akron’s (IIA) refugee and i...

������Ƶ Student Center Programming, part of the Center for Student Involvement, hosted the 13th annual Rock the Runway on March 4. The runway featured 21 collections by 24 designers, many from ������Ƶ’s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising. The ������Ƶ Student Center Ballroom was decked out in 1920s’ style with an elevated runway to showcase the designs. The ������Ƶ Jazz Society Quartet, made up of ������Ƶ State students, performed themed music during the show, which was hosted by sophomore communication studies major Michael Gallagher II.   The first-place coll...

EVENTS THROUGHOUT APRIL TO CELEBRATE EARTH MONTH By Hannah Wagner and Erin Zaranec ������Ƶ celebrates Earth Month through a series of events through April 29 across the East Liverpool, ������Ƶ and Stark campuses. “We hope that the variety of Earth Month events will allow students with different interests to engage, learn about sustainability on campus and take action,” says Melanie Knowles, sustainability manager for ������Ƶ State’s facilities planning and operations. The Office of Sustainability collaborated on activities and works...

There are many events in April and May related to the environment, plants, and conservation.  Details are below.  (CHH=Cunningham Hall, ������Ƶ campus)   April Earth Month Events Wednesday April 12th (3-6 pm) Wellness Refresh Event at University Bookstore Week(s) April 17th - April 28th  Biological Sciences & Art Department Painted Rain Barrel Project on display at The KSU Wick Poetry Center Gardens. Monday, April 17th  (Basement of CHH/1-3PM) Plant pressing techniques (Student Organization- Herrick Conservatory & Sustainability ...

A unique partnership is helping to spread the “word” about migration, literally. Powerful and inspiring words are ringing throughout 11 cities in the United States, as a result of ������Ƶ’s Wick Poetry Center joining 22 other nonprofit poetry organizations to form a Poetry Coalition. Together the coalition presented programs on the theme “Because We Come From Everything: Poetry & Migration.” The theme borrows a line from U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s poem, “Borderbus.” This month, the Akron Art Museum will host a poetry reading and ribbon cutt...