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Eight Students Awarded Membership to International Society of Typographic Designers

Eight School of Visual Communication Design (VCD) students were awarded membership to the prestigious  (ISTD).

Dangerous Buzz

Zika. Dengue. West Nile. Malaria. When diseases like these hit the headlines, attention turns to the creature causing these outbreaks that threaten human health—the lowly mosquito. Kent State faculty in public health and geography are preparing students to deal with future outbreaks and sharing facts to help calm your fears.

Attention, Please

MIT neuroscientist Earl Miller, BA ’85, continues to break new ground in the understanding of cognition—and his research may help us move beyond the limits of the brain’s working memory. / Kent State Magazine

Kent State Selects Alison Smith as the New Dean of the Honors College

Alison Smith will become the new dean of ��������’s Honors College, effective July 1.

Scholarship Competition Encourages Florence Students to Become Further Immersed in the Local Culture

By immersing themselves deeply in the local culture, students participating in a study abroad program can greatly enhance their overseas

Changes to Administrative Policies Now in Effect

Please be aware of changes to two administrative policies that went into effect March 1.

From Research Lab to Commercial Market: State Awards Grant to Boost Economy

�������� is among the institutions and businesses in Ohio to share $10 million in grants from the state’s Third Frontier Com

Joe Belinsky Jr. | April 3, 2017

Alexa Doutt | April 3, 2017

Yosh Hakutani, Department of English

Yosh Hakutani, Ph.D., Department of English, authored&�Բ�����;“East-West Literary Imagination: Cultural Exchanges from Yeats to Morrison” (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2017), xiii, 322 pp.

Kent State Archaeologist Uses National Science Foundation Grant to Recreate, Test Ancient Weapons

Kent State professor uses a $215,000 National Science Foundation grant to analyze weapons technology dating back 11,000 to 12,000 years.

Kent State Track Star Goes the Distance to Up the Speed of Young Athletes

It all comes down to a fraction of a second. Who can push off the block first? Who can jump the highest?