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 From spring break to move-out, thousands of students pack their bags and leave the residence halls. When they leave, sometimes they throw away useful items, non-perishable foods or clothes with years of life left in them. Throw ‘N’ Go, ����������������'s annual move-out program, is currently underway to keep those useable items out of landfills and in the hands of people who need them.A partnership between ����������������'s Office of Sustainability and the Phyllis Zumkehr Portage County Clothing Center, Throw ‘N’ Go provides students with an opportunity to donate items that might ot...

���������������� entrepreneurs can now apply for up to $3,000 in grant funding for their businesses through the Morgan Startup Grant program. LaunchNET ���������������� received generous support through a $45,000 grant from Burton D. Morgan Foundation to operate the 2025 Morgan Startup Grant program. This program offers ���������������� students and alumni entrepreneurs the opportunity to apply for funding to help move their businesses forward with inventory, capital, product, or other related purchases.  “This is such an exciting program for us as we are able to take a real, actionable step forward f...

Every April, ���������������� celebrates Earth Month by having Earth-related events all month long. April 22, 2025, is the 55th anniversary of Earth Day, with this year’s theme being “Our Power, Our Planet.”The ���������������� Earth Month Committee’s mission is focused on growing a sustainable, equitable and inclusive future for all by implementing transformational sustainability practices into the university’s facilities, planning processes, operations, natural environment and culture. The committee has planned more than 40 events that will take place this month for the ���������������� ...

����������������’s School of Theatre and Dance is closing its 2024-2025 season with "Men On Boats," running April 18 through 27 in Wright-Curtis Theatre, located in the Center for Performing Arts on the Kent campusTen explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. "Men On Boats" is the true(ish) story of John Wesley Powell’s 1869 expedition down the Grand and Colorado Rivers with nine amateur explorers. This comedic feminist retelling of the explorers’ death-defying adventure raises urgent questions about whose histories are told, whose perspectives are left out and how historical narratives sh...

 On Friday, April 5th, TransHum and the Translation Graduate Student Program hosted Kaleidoscopic Translation Studies Conference. The annual Gregory M. Shreve Lecture Series in Translation Studies presented Dr. Richard Watts (University of Washington), who gave the keynote address titled “Translators, Interpreters, and Other Fixers in Cultural Texts of the ‘Linguacene’”. Throughout the weekend, the program was packed with engaging workshops and conversations. The weekend events also held a special presentation of Dr. Washbourne’s new book Translators on Translation (Routledge, 2025)....

The emerging student-artists of the B.A. studio art capstone course in the School of Art at ���������������� announce the opening of their group exhibition "Chroma Concepts" at the Design Innovation (DI) Hub Gallery.The exhibition will open Monday, April 14 and run through Friday, April 25, 2025. A closing reception will take place Friday, April 25 from 5-7 p.m. in the DI Hub on the ���������������� campus. There will be a live performance by artist and musician Salitrix Irish at 6:30 p.m.. The regular DI Hub Gallery hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.This exhibition co...

The nationally and internationally ranked ���������������� School of Fashion is thrilled to announce its acclaimed Annual Fashion Show will take place April 24-26, in Crawford Hall on the Kent Campus.The 2025 Annual Fashion Show features 161 looks from 41 designers whose collections and single-submission garments were chosen by a panel of industry critics and jurors for inclusion in this year’s show. The collections and garments span all categories of fashion and include evening wear, market ready, universal design and more.  ...