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Community Impact

Students discovering downtown Kent.

The first "Flashes First Thursday" welcomes students to experience the shopping, dining, music and more that make downtown Kent a fun place to visit.

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Scene from Summer Commencement 2023

Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Summer Commencement ceremonies took place on Manchester Field last Saturday. 

Hospitality students in the DI Hub.

A scholarship funded through the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Hotel and Conference Center benefits students in Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Hospitality Management program. 

Students painting The Rock.

For more than a century, "The Rock" on the Kent Campus has been a colorful canvas expressing the changing moods of the community.

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School of Music Percussion Camp 2023

High school students come to Â鶹ÊÓƵ each summer for the School of Music's Percussion Camp.

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Kent Campus in Fall

Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been recognized for the 15th consecutive year with the Tree Campus Higher Education recognition (previously called the Tree Campus USA designation).

Main Street

A federal grant will help restart a major improvement project for a highly trafficked area of downtown Kent. Changes to East Main Street will include wider sidewalks, bike and pedestrian paths and crossings, and two roundabouts.

Students take part in the Stark County Summer Math Academy for high school students at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Stark Campus.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ-sponsored math camp helps to prepare high school students for plentiful STEM jobs in Ohio.

  

 

Professor Karl Kosko shows a Kent-area public school teacher how to use a 3-D printer.

Teachers from northeast Ohio and from thousands of miles away in sub-Saharan Africa have been learning to create inexpensive math teaching tools thanks to the efforts of some Â鶹ÊÓƵ professors. 

Dog Days of Summer 2023

Â鶹ÊÓƵ canines and their human companions came to the Kent Campus for the Dog Days of Summer.