Kent State University's Kent Campus returned to full power Tuesday afternoon after operating with limited electrical power following an outage earlier that morning.  The outage was addressed at the university's Summit Street Power Plant, which provided backup electricity for about nine hours in "island mode" to prioritize essential facilities.The Kent Campus outage led to courses moving to remote instruction for the day and mirrored other outages across Portage County.  ...

 For Lauren Sigrist, a senior Environmental and Conservation Biology major, with a minor in Environmental Studies, the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) supported by the Environmental Science and Design Research Institute (ESDRI) gave her the opportunity to spend a second summer exploring how technology is transforming wildlife research. She conducted her project under the mentorship of Greg Smith, PhD, faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State at Stark. “The research project I have been working on studies different methods of calculating relative abu...

U.S. News & World Report has once again confirmed Kent State University’s place among the best colleges and universities in Ohio and across the country, as seen in the university’s inclusion on several lists in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings.In the newly released rankings, Kent State is once again the highest-ranked public institution in northern Ohio, and with its impressive national ranking of No. 129, the university continues to be recognized among the Top Public Schools in the nation.“These rankings confirm what we see every day in our classrooms...