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Hi, Drupalites, Let us start by thanking you for your contributions to your Drupal website and your patience with us during the current content freeze. We understand that this is an inconvenience. We would also like to thank you in advance for your continued patience as we share some important updates. The Arrival of Drupal 9 Is Shifting; Soft Content Freeze Will Be Extended The complexity and the sheer size of Kent State's web footprint is something we all understand! Because it is our digital front door to the university, our Division of Information Technology's web presence group a...

Students from the ��ñ��East Liverpool physical therapist assistant (PTA) and the occupational therapy assistant (OTA) programs joined efforts to help support the Banquet of Lisbon. The students used fundraisers to make a combined donation of $600 to help the Columbiana County campuses host the banquet on Oct. 24. Each year, PTA and OTA students from the Kent East Liverpool campus find unique ways to increase awareness about their fields, while raising funds for a cause chosen by the classes. The Banquet of Lisbon is held each month at the New Lisbon Presbyterian Church in Lisbon, pr...

��ñ��’s 10th Annual Neuroscience Symposium began Thursday with a keynote address by Tracy L. Bale, Ph.D., titled "The biology of trauma: Understanding risk and resilience."   Bale, of the University of Colorado, is a leading national researcher in the study of how stress on a person and in-utero stress on an unborn child can lead to changes in brain development that can result in an increased risk for mental illness and a variety of other disorders, which can be passed on from generation to generation.   Her research includes t...

��ñ��’s Office of International Student Affairs is urging all students interested in different cultures to expand their worldview and create new friends in the community-building Conversation Partners program. The Conversation Partners Program at ��ñ��is a voluntary program that pairs international students with students from the United States, according to the Office of International Student Affairs. Once paired, the meetings between partners can take place virtually or in person. The paired students meet once a week for one hour to discuss their different cultures. ...

Two ��ñ�� professors believe the best way to get more teachers in the classroom is to keep more education majors in college.  They recently received a $200,000 grant that will be used to do just that: help students stay in school.  “The grant money is almost all for scholarships and programming,” said Alicia R. Crowe, Ph.D., associate dean for Undergraduate Education and Student Services and professor of Social Studies and Teacher Education in the College of Education, Health and Human Services (EHHS).  “For the first two years, we want to support program...

As an aerospace engineering major, Ruth Miller knew that ��ñ��didn’t have a women in engineering club on campus, but she didn’t become discouraged, she became determined.  She rolled up her sleeves and got to work with sophomore Autumn Ohl and junior Haley Dees to build a brand-new chapter at Kent State. The KSU Women in Engineering Club was founded in October 2021. Miller, a sophomore Honors College student from Pittsburgh, is the group's president. Ohl, who is also an aerospace engineering major from Sarver, Pa., is vice president of the club. “I want...