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Community & Society

July Preview KSU events were well attended.

¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ’s Office of Admissions is seeing its hard work, creativity and strategic planning pay off by way of increased engagement and an elevated level of interest in the university. 

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.

¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ Alumna Jennifer Schuller Named President of Lake Erie College

¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ alumna Jennifer N. Schuller has been named president of Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio. She is the first woman to lead the institution in 75 years.

Students take part in the Stark County Summer Math Academy for high school students at the ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ Stark Campus.

¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ-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 ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ professors. 

Dog Days of Summer 2023

¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ canines and their human companions came to the Kent Campus for the Dog Days of Summer. 

¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ grad Josh Budd, teaches at Stow-Munroe Falls Schools

Honors College ranked high when graduate Josh Budd was deciding whether to attend ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ because it offered him a challenging experience through its thesis programs and its education-abroad program. Studying abroad helped him develop more empathy and connection with people of backgrounds different from his own. 

The ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ balloon at the Balloon Classic.

Hot air balloons and the Budweiser Clydesdales visited ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ at Stark. 

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Since the beginning of the pandemic, few disciplines have seen as many changes as psychology. In order to help students address these emerging challenges, ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ’s Department of Psychological Sciences is offering a slate of courses relevant to the changing trends impacting mental health today. 

¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ students check out the Kigali skyline

Over the past several weeks, ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ faculty and staff, along with a select group of students, have traveled to Kigali, Rwanda, taking part in a host of educational programs and cultural exchange.