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  The Stress-Free Zone in the ���������������� Library's Harrick Garden Room has become a tradition during Finals Week in fall and spring semesters.   Cuddly therapy dogs steal the spotlight as the star attraction, but the event also offers free coffee, juice and snacks, plus relaxing craft-making activities.   In polls on "KentWired," students have voted the University Library as the No. 1 study spot on campus for 12 consecutive years.   The Stress-Free Zone is a welcome, healthy break from their studies for ���������������� students as th...

When Josh Kogan, a 2018 graduate of ����������������, began his senior honors thesis, he intended to research a history that was deeply personal to him: the story of Jewish life in Mexico, where he was born and raised. The project would grow into a comprehensive, community-supported historical volume that would be published in Mexico City.  Kogan’s work is titled “La historia de los judíos en México” (“The Story of the Jews in Mexico”), a 400-page coffee-table book published in 2025 by Fundación Metta Saade, A.C. and the Comité Central de la Comunidad Judía de México, A.C. ...

����������������’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design is proud to announce that alumna Morgan Mackey’s, '25, Master of Landscape Architecture capstone project titled Riverfront Stitch: Mending Cleveland’s Industrial Valley has been awarded a 2025 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Student Honor Award in the General Design category. This national award recognizes outstanding design quality, context, environmental sensitivity and sustainability, hazard mitigation, climate adaptations, and resilience strategies.  Developed as part of the College of Archit...

The School of Art Collection and Galleries is pleased to announce "Metamorphosis," a permanent sculptural installation created by Violet Maimbourg, a Master of Fine Arts graduate student at ����������������. The work was created for the Healing Garden at the University Hospital Portage Medical Center, offering visitors a space for reflection and peace....