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New Home and Public Park for Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center
Oct. 7, 2014
On Sept. 25-27, Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center will celebrate its 30th anniversary with the dedication of a new home and poetry park on the Lefton Esplanade. For more information, visit www.kent.edu/wick.
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A Poetic Celebration
Oct. 7, 2014
For 30 years, Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the…
Read More »Kent State Professor Awarded Grant to Study How Plants Respond to Environmental Stress
Oct. 7, 2014
Each year, droughts cost crop farmers dearly. They experience not only a loss in yield, but also a reduction in the quality of the crops produced. But, what if new breeds of plants could be created that still thrive even without a drop of rain for weeks?
Read More »ISIS & The Politics of Horror
Oct. 1, 2014
ISIS & The Politics of Horror Globalization, Triangulation and the Violent Mutations of Contemporary Islamism Tuesday, October 7th, 2014 12:30-2:30pm Governance Chambers Kent State Student Center Room 252
Read More »Kent State Dedicates the New Home of the Wick Poetry Center and Poetry Park
Sept. 26, 2014
For 30 years, Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the…
Read More »“Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings” to be Topic of Co-Lecture at Kent State on Sept. 27
Aug. 28, 2014
Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences and the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship will host a co-lecture, “The Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings,” to be given by two of Northeast Ohio’s experts in Middle East politics and political…
Read More »Rare Sixteenth-Century British Travel Writing Featured in Library Showcase on May 9
Aug. 25, 2014
A showcase of rare books from Kent State University's Special Collections Library titled "The Printed World: European Travel Writing in an Age of Global Encounters (1500-1850)" will take place on Friday, May 9 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in the Kent State…
Read More »Kent State Honors College Graduate Named 2014 Portz Scholar
Aug. 22, 2014
The National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) has named Allison Moats, a recent graduate of the Honors College and the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University, as a Portz Scholar for 2014. Allison is a native of Ravenna, Ohio, and received her bachelor’s degree…
Read More »Kent State's Department of Pan-African Studies to Hold Roundtable Discussion as Part of a Yearlong Series
Aug. 22, 2014
Kent State University’s Department of Pan-African Studies will hold a roundtable discussion on police state, militarism, brutality and the use of deadly force at an upcoming event.
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