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Orange barrels will soon appear on a three-quarter-mile stretch of Ohio Route 59/East Main Street that runs through ����������������’s Front Campus, marking the start of a three-year construction project to make the thoroughfare safer and more attractive.

����������������’s Annual Environmental Science and Design Research Institute Research Showcase offers an opportunity for student researchers to present posters showcasing their explorations and findings in all areas of environmental research and design. 

The Summer Undergraduate Research Experience is a great opportunity for undergraduate researchers such as Ethan Wenk to work directly with a faculty mentor, gain valuable experience to clarify career and educational goals, enhance research skills and gain academic insight.

This summer, artists from the region, ���������������� and around the world came together for a transformative two weeks of Kent Blossom Art Intensives.

Find out which first names were repeated most frequently at ����������������’s spring commencement ceremonies in 2025 and which names topped the list against national trends. 

Broadcast journalism is a competitive world. But ����������������'s Sydney Brown is already making her mark.

����������������'s International Student and Scholar Services, with the Office of Global Education, invited the university's international students and their families to come together at summer luncheon on campus. 

����������������’s College of Public Health is the only fully accredited public health college to offer an undergraduate pathway to clinical trials research, a rapidly expanding segment of the healthcare job market.

���������������� is taking a big step forward in its ecological and evolutionary research with the establishment of its new on-campus Outdoor Vivarium for Oviparous Microbiomes – a dynamic new aviary facility located on the eastern edge of the Kent Campus near a thriving wetland.

The Center for Advanced Air Mobility within ����������������'s College of Aeronautics and Engineering fosters research, testing and development of safe, efficient and sustainable solutions for passenger and cargo aircraft using autonomous aircraft technology. 

There's music in the summer breezes at ���������������� as the annual Kent Blossom Music Festival welcomes students from the U.S. and abroad to study with world class musicians to campus. 

In a quiet office at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, Michele Curran Cornell spends her weekdays immersed in history — not the kind found in textbooks, but the kind that impacts families and honors those who gave everything for our country. 

���������������� will be closed July 4 to observe Independence Day. No classes are scheduled on the holiday, and university offices are closed. The university will resume normal operations on July 7.

���������������� Youth Winds had the unique opportunity to travel to Washington, D.C. this spring, giving meaningful performances alongside famous monuments and making lasting connections with renowned musicians.

 Once her degree is complete, junior Honors College nursing student Rylie Lapikas likely won't need to wait long to start her career. Ninety-nine percent of ���������������� nursing students are employed within six months of graduation.

A Mantua woman who worked at ���������������� in the Office of the President from 1951 to 1971 recently celebrated her 110th birthday. She recalls her time at ���������������� and shares a few reflections from her long life. 

Water flowed for the first time in the newly completed Crawford Fountain in the courtyard outside Crawford Hall, home of ����������������'s Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship. 

The Crystal, a three-story, glass atrium and entrance to the Akron Art Museum, provided the perfect backdrop for these diamonds in the rough, a coming-of-age collection manifested in the proud work of multi-talented, middle and high school students from Akron participating in a program designed to illicit self-expression through poetry, art and virtual reality.

The ���������������� Museum presents its summer exhibition titled “Sparkle: The Style and Jewelry of Aileen Mehle.” In honor of the ���������������� Museum’s 40th anniversary, this exhibition pays tribute to Aileen Mehle, a friend of the museum founders and widely syndicated society columnist. 

A group of school administrators from Brazil recently completed the 10-day Design Innovation Change Agent Workshop at ����������������’s Design Innovation Hub, where they immersed themselves in design innovation techniques as they endeavor to innovate their school system at home.