A $4.1 million award from the Federal Aviation Administration will fund major infrastructure upgrades at the Kent State University Airport, strengthening one of Ohio’s largest collegiate flight training programs and helping meet the aviation industry’s growing demand for pilots.The airport, owned by Kent State and managed under the university’s Office of Facilities, Planning and Operations, is home to the College of Aeronautics and Engineering’s professional pilot program. Students complete more than 13,000 flights each year at the facility, representing nearly 90% of total airport operations....

Kent State University’s Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education recently was awarded a $50,000 grant to help train teachers in southwestern Nigeria.Amanda Johnson, Ph.D., director of the Read Center, recently spent a week in Ogun State, Nigeria, where she met with education and government officials who were eager to share in Kent State’s expertise.The effort was born out of work the Read Center conducts on the Kent Campus through the Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) programs, in which groups of teachers from across the globe come to Kent State to ...