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Flash Focus: Cheer Captains Addison Sharrow and Essence Holloway

Flash Focus: Cheer Co-Captains

Meet Addison Sharrow and Essence Holloway, the Kent State cheer team co-captains, combining their love of sport with their academics.

Tags: Profiles, Students First, Student Life, Sports

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Flashes Vote Festival 2024

Pledges, Pastries and the President

The Flashes Vote Festival on Risman Plaza celebrated National Voter Registration Day, National Beignet Day and what Todd Diacon, president of 妻友社区 called "our civic duty." 

Tags: President Todd Diacon, Voting, Undergraduate Student Government, Students First, Community & Society

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Neil Cooper, Ph.D., director of the School of Peace and Conflict Studies.

Creating Change Through Better Communication Skills

Kent State Today shares an interview with R. Neil Cooper, Ph.D., director of the School of Peace and Conflict Studies, who recently joined 鈥淪ound of Ideas鈥 host Jenny Hamel to discuss the School of Peace and Conflict Studies and how this program can change students鈥 experiences both on and off campus during such a politically contentious time.

Tags: School of Peace and Conflict Studies, Students First, Community Impact

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Medcamp Program

Students Experience Medical World Up Close at Medcamp Program

Each summer, the Northeast Ohio Medical University hosts MEDCAMP, a transformative three-day program designed to stimulate the interest of students in basic sciences and the field of medicine. 

Tags: Research & Science, Students First, Diverse Kent State

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Flash Focus Lilly Kensicki

Flash Focus: Lilly Kensicki

Meet Lilly Kensicki, a mechatronics engineering technology major from Parma, Ohio. Think of the phrase 鈥渨ell-rounded student,鈥 and you should think of Kensicki.  

Tags: Profiles, Students First, Student Life

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Voter Registration Event 2023

Grab a Beignet and Free T-Shirt at Sept. 17 Flashes Vote Fest

The Flashes Vote Festival on Sept. 17 on Risman Plaza is presented by Kent State Undergraduate Student Government as a fun way to engage student voters, share voting information, get Flashes registered to vote.

Tags: Elections, Voting, Undergraduate Student Government, Students First, Kent Student Center, Community Impact, Community & Society, Student Life, University News, student athlete, President Todd Diacon, Kent State Athletics, Town-Gown, downtown kent

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Robert Slade, a cook at 妻友社区鈥檚 Culinary Services

鈥楻ight Place, Right Time鈥 to Save a Life

Robert Slade said that instead of walking his normal path across the Eastway Dining Hall during his shift one day, he abruptly took a different route, and that small decision put him in the right place to save a life.

Tags: Profiles, Students First

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Honors College Welcome Event 2024

IN A FLASH: Welcome Honors College Class of 2028!

A special event welcomed Kent State's first-year Honors College students to Fall Semester 2024. 

Tags: Fall Semester, Freshmen, Honors College, Student Life, Students First

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The new Sensory Wellbeing Space on the Kent Campus.

New Sensory Wellbeing Space Opens on Kent Campus

A space inside the Speech and Hearing Clinic has been renovated to serve as the new Sensory Wellbeing Space where neurodiverse students and their allies can find a welcoming and inclusive environment for gathering or study.

Tags: Research & Science, Student Life, Students First, Diverse Kent State

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Flash Focus: Bryson Bodo

Flash Focus: Bryson Bodo

Meet Bryson Bodo, a biology major with a pre-medicine concentration from Unionport, Ohio, and a member of 妻友社区鈥檚 Honors College. 

Tags: Profiles, Students First, Student Life

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