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On The Map: Bea McPherson charted the course for women mapmakers

As the United States entered WWII, trailblazing women like Bea McPherson, BS ’43, took on the task of providing essential handmade maps for the war effort—and charted the course for today’s women mapmakers.

By Jan Senn / Kent State Magazine

Tags: Community & Society , Department of Geography

Kent State Magazine

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Writing Across Borders

Teaching artists from the Wick Poetry Center are engaging refugee and immigrant populations in a cross-cultural, intergenerational conversation through poetry and graphic design.  With the support of a major grant from the Knight Foundation, the center has partnered with Urban Vision, the In…

Tags: Community & Society

Kent State Magazine

Photo by Melissa Olson

Operation: Restoration

On a cold, rainy Saturday at the end of September, a group of volunteers and researchers trudge up a steep, muddy hill in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CVNP). They’ve come out to celebrate National Public Lands Day and, despite the conditions, they’re having fun planting over 480 native trees o…

Tags: Community & Society , Environmental Science and Design Research Institute

Kent State Magazine

Photo by Melissa Olson

On The Map

As the United States entered WWII, trailblazing women like Bea McPherson, BS ’43, took on the task of providing essential handmade maps for the war effort — and charted the course for today’s women mapmakers.

By Jan Senn / Kent State Magazine

Tags: Community & Society

Kent State Magazine

Former Æðµã´«Ã½ quarterback Julian Edelman releases a new memoir.

Former Kent State Quarterback Julian Edelman Releases New Memoir

New England Patriots wide receiver and former Æðµã´«Ã½ quarterback Julian Edelman released a new memoir, Relentless, on Tuesday, Oct. 24. The memoir is described as “the inspiring story of an underdog kid who was always doubted to becoming one of the most reliable and inspiring pl…

Tags: Kent State Athletics , Football , Featured Story , Community & Society

Kent Campus

Æðµã´«Ã½â€™s College of Aeronautics and Engineering is pleased to announce a workshop on drones on Nov. 13.

Tools, Toys or Aircraft? Kent State Hosts Series on Drones and Other Unmanned Aeronautical Vehicles

Æðµã´«Ã½â€™s College of Aeronautics and Engineering is pleased to announce four upcoming workshops on drones. The first event will take place on Nov. 13, with a reception starting at 6 p.m. and conference from 7 to 9 p.m in the Kent Student Center Kiva.  This workshop is presented…

Tags: College of Aeronautics & Engineering , Featured Story , Community & Society

Kent Campus

Student Nurses presented the hospital with more than a dozen safe sleep sacks.

Kent State Student Nurses Encourage Safe Sleeping Habits for Infants

The Student Nurses’ Association at Æðµã´«Ã½ Trumbull is teaming up with Trumbull Memorial Hospital to teach new parents safe sleeping habits for their infants. The student nurses presented the hospital with more than a dozen "safe sleep sacks" to use on babies and model how to&n…

Tags: Community & Society , Kent State Trumbull

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Kent State’s Digital Commons chronicles Ohio’s long-standing tradition of enology, the study of wine and winemaking, which has boosted it into the top 10 wine-producing states.

Kent State Ashtabula Digital Commons Collection Showcases Ohio Wine Industry

A team at Æðµã´«Ã½ at Ashtabula has started a Digital Commons collection to showcase the Ohio wine industry.

Tags: e2-101617 , e2 , Community & Society , Featured Story

Kent State Ashtabula Digital Commons Collection Showcases Ohio Wine Industry

Kent State invites the community to take part in breaking a record.

Paint the World, Step by Step

Help attempt to break the world record of the World's Largest Barefoot Painted Mural!

Tags: Community & Society , Featured Story

Flash Feed

(From left) Dr. Mark Arredondo, Dr. Kimberly Williams, Dr. Andrea Warner Stidham and Dr. Wendy Umberger were awarded a $1.1 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration.

Kent State’s College of Nursing Awarded $1.1 Million Grant for Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training

Kent State’s College of Nursing has been awarded $1.1 million grant to expand the behavioral health workforce in rural and underserved areas.

Tags: e2-100917 , e2 , Community & Society

Kent State’s College of Nursing Awarded $1.1 Million Grant for Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training