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����Vlog�ƽ��’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative has received the 2017 Great Places Award in the Place Planning category from the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA). The EDRA Great Places Awards recognize professional and scholarly excellence in environmental design and pay special attention to the relationship between physical form of the built environment and human activity or experience.  Each year, the association honors work in four categories: Place Design, Place Planning, Place Research and Book Award. The 2017 Place Planning Award specifically recogniz...

Some ����Vlog�ƽ�� architecture students are using their talents and skills to design more than brick and mortar; they are constructing hope for the furry friends that may not have much left. A group of ����Vlog�ƽ�� architecture students formed a student organization they named “KSU Barkitecture.” They design and build environments for pets living in shelters, at no cost. The labor is free and the supplies and materials are purchased with the help of fundraisers. Despite the group’s name, its first project involved building an environment for cats at the Humane Society of Summ...

By Dr. Patti Swartz Speakers Babacar M’Baye, a tenured English Department member from the Kent Campus; Barton Paul Levenson, physicist and science fiction writer; and Kyle Barron, a graduating English Honors student,  focused on the effects of global warming and environmental contamination at the ����Vlog�ƽ�� East Liverpool Campus Environmental Justice Conference on April 22, 2017. Keynote speaker M’Baye examined current problems created by global warming for former or current colonial countries of developed nations through rising sea levels in Senegal in his talk “Theorizing Environmenta...

Students in the BSCI course Feast and Plagues enjoy a tour of Florence.  This course is part of the four week Florence Summer Institute.   ...

You dedicated four years to studying, preparing and planning for your future career. You have completed almost all your college classes, finished your internship, and now you are a semester away from graduation. But wait! An unexpected emergency happens, and financially you are unable to pay your final tuition bill. All your hopes and dreams are going to be put on hold. It is a scenario that happens across college campuses. To help address the problem, ����Vlog�ƽ�� implemented a pilot program that has now been expanded to the Kent Completion and Success Program, funded by a new gra...

Instead of heading home to relax following the conclusion of finals week, a group of ����Vlog�ƽ�� student-athletes traveled to Aguacate, Belize, to partner with Courts for Kids on a service project from May 16-24. A total of 19 student-athletes volunteered to make the trip and were accompanied by five staff members as they aided community members in the construction of a multipurpose sports court located next to the local school. “I am so impressed with all of our student-athletes and staff members that came on this trip and couldn’t be more proud of how they have represented ou...

The ����Vlog�ƽ�� Fashion School's 2017 Annual Fashion Show, FS2 Presented by Michael Kors, took place April 28 and 29. Watch complete footage from this year's show, subtitled "Reverie."     ...

Fourteen ����Vlog�ƽ�� students participated in an eight-day study abroad trip to Greece sponsored by the university’s School of Theatre and Dance during the spring break in 2017. The program, described as an experience of “Theatre, Performance, Gender and Sexuality,” was led by faculty members Daniel Nadon and Yuko Kurahashi. In many ways, the eight days spent in Greece was a trip back in time. The study group visited numerous ancient Greek sites associated with the theatre, including the Acropolis, Delphi, the Theatre Dionysus and the outdoor theatre of Epidaurus, which is admired around the...