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A ‘NEAT’ Way to Stay Healthy

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 ������Ƶ State, spoke to Will Stone of NPR’s “All Things Considered” about this highly underrated way to fight the ongoing battle with sedentary lifestyles.

Wick Prize Winner Farnaz Fatemi Receives Poet Laureate Fellowship From Academy of American Poets

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 ������Ƶ'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 ������Ƶ 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.

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 ������Ƶ Campus welcomes hundreds of high school students and their parents to discover ������Ƶ State at Preview KSU.

Young Musicians Get a Chance to Bloom

For five decades, the ������Ƶ 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 ������Ƶ 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, ������Ƶ’s Department of Psychological Sciences is offering a slate of courses relevant to the changing trends impacting mental health today. 

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

First-generation, non-traditional student Yalanda Cunningham knows that ������Ƶ 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 ������Ƶ. “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

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

������Ƶ 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 ������Ƶ’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies, ������Ƶ 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 ������Ƶ 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

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