
Events
The Office of Sustainability is involved in various events throughout the year.
- Campus Sustainability Month: October
- National Solar Tour: October
- Bra Recycling Drive: October
- Game Day Challenge: Fall Semester
- Winter Coat and Clothing Drive: November/December
- Campus Race to Zero Waste: Spring Semester
- E-Cycle Drive: March
- Earth Month Events: April
Image

Julia Perrone, research technician and lab manager of the Bahlai computational ecology lab in the Kent State Department of Biological Sciences, wants teachers and students to get a chance to understand ecology and data science from a hands-on perspective. Perrone, a recent…
LIGHTING A FIRE(FLY): BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCHER HELPS TEACHERS GET MESSY WITH DATA; College of Arts and Sciences; June 9, 2021
Julia Perrone, research technician and lab manager of the Bahlai computational ecology lab in the Kent State Department of Biological Sciences, wants teachers and students to get a chance to understand ecology and data science from a hands-on perspective. Perrone, a recent…Image

Image by Daniel Friesenecker from Pixabay
Recent funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has given interdisciplinary researchers the opportunity to help drive our understanding of patterns in nature when bringing together big data sources collected in different…
PATTERNS, POPULATIONS AND PODCASTS: COMPUTATIONAL ECOLOGIST RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS EARLY-CAREER AWARD FROM NSF; Division of Research and Sponsored Programs; May 19, 2021
Image by Daniel Friesenecker from Pixabay Recent funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has given interdisciplinary researchers the opportunity to help drive our understanding of patterns in nature when bringing together big data sources collected in different…Image

The sun was setting over a little Stow neighborhood in 1995. Eight-year-old Jennifer Daring knew it meant she would have to go inside soon. That was her mother’s rule: be home by dusk.
But Daring was always pushing it. Just a little later. Just a little more time.…
DARING TO DREAM: A METAMORPHOSIS; Kent State Stark; May 12, 2021
The sun was setting over a little Stow neighborhood in 1995. Eight-year-old Jennifer Daring knew it meant she would have to go inside soon. That was her mother’s rule: be home by dusk. But Daring was always pushing it. Just a little later. Just a little more time.…Image

The Office of Student Research (OSR) had already begun reviewing applications for the 2020 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) fellowships when stay-at-home orders due to the COVID pandemic forced cancelation of this popular program. However, rather than simply…
KENT STATE’S SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE PIVOTS DUE TO PANDEMIC; Kent State Today; April 28, 2021
The Office of Student Research (OSR) had already begun reviewing applications for the 2020 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) fellowships when stay-at-home orders due to the COVID pandemic forced cancelation of this popular program. However, rather than simply…Image

Is there anything quite as exciting and fulfilling as following your passion and getting to use the latest technologies to do it? When you find both early in your career you have hit the proverbial jackpot.
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES PROFESSOR EXPLORES GENOME SIZE DIFFERENCES WITHIN AND ACROSS SPECIES; College of Arts and Sciences; May 6, 2021
Is there anything quite as exciting and fulfilling as following your passion and getting to use the latest technologies to do it? When you find both early in your career you have hit the proverbial jackpot.Image

ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø has recently received a flurry of grants totaling more than $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which will support research and innovation in a wide range of fields within the College of Arts and Sciences.
KENT STATE RECEIVES MORE THAN $3 MILLION IN GRANTS FROM NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION; Kent State Today; May 6, 2021
ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø has recently received a flurry of grants totaling more than $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which will support research and innovation in a wide range of fields within the College of Arts and Sciences.Image

Starting in Semester Fall 2021 , the Department of Pan-African Studies will offer all ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø graduate students the option of taking three courses leading to a new graduate minor degree in Race, Gender and Social Justice (RGSJ) at the Kent Campus. Pending approval…
RACE, GENDER AND SOCIAL JUSTICE GRADUATE MINOR DEGREE TO LAUNCH IN FALL 2021; Kent State Today; May 6, 2021
Starting in Semester Fall 2021 , the Department of Pan-African Studies will offer all ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø graduate students the option of taking three courses leading to a new graduate minor degree in Race, Gender and Social Justice (RGSJ) at the Kent Campus. Pending approval…Image

As racial tensions shook the nation to its core throughout the summer of 2020, the historic rock located at the front of campus became a focal point of derogatory remarks.
At that time, members of the Integrated Greek Council (IGC) took charge, deciding not only that things…
IGC PLOTS SET TO BECOME A REALITY; Division of Student Affairs; May 5, 2021
As racial tensions shook the nation to its core throughout the summer of 2020, the historic rock located at the front of campus became a focal point of derogatory remarks. At that time, members of the Integrated Greek Council (IGC) took charge, deciding not only that things…By: Jessica Ordóñez-Lancet May 04, 2021
RESTON, Va. – Across more than 200 college campuses in 43 states, millions of students participated in the competition, where they…
2.9 Million College Students, Faculty and Staff Engage in Campus Race to Zero Waste Competition; National Wildlife Federation; May 4, 2021
By: Jessica Ordóñez-Lancet May 04, 2021 RESTON, Va. – Across more than 200 college campuses in 43 states, millions of students participated in the competition, where they…Image

Kent State Magazine Spring/Summer 2021 By Candace Goforth DeSantis, BS ’94, and Jim Maxwell, BS ’00, MS ’11