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2023 Women's History Month Graphic

Celebrating Women’s History Month at ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø

This March, ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø is celebrating the 2023 Women’s History Month. The theme for 2023 is “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.â€

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¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Alumna Heather Malarcik is director of Main Street Kent.

¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Alumna Found Her Passion Promoting Downtown Kent

As a ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø student in the early 1990s, Heather Rohwedder Malarcik '96 could never have imagined that she would one day find her dream job in downtown Kent, Ohio.

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Kindness Rocks at the Women's Center

Kindness Rocks Kent

People from Kent and ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø are sharing positivity and building community with small rocks. 

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Wheelchair Basketball Championship Game 2023

IN A FLASH: Championship Game at the MAC Center!

On Saturday, ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø hosted Adaptive Sports Ohio's Wheelchair Basketball Championship. 

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Lafayette Tolliver and Gene Shelton identify people in photos on the screen

Visual Footprints in Time

More than 1,000 photos of Black student life have been digitized and are waiting for members of the ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø community to help identify them.

Tags: Community & Society, Community Impact, May 4 50

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The view from the control booth at a rehearsal of "Urinetown."

IN A FLASH: Behind the Console for ‘Urinetown’

The view from the control booth at a rehearsal of “Urinetown.â€

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Drone footage shows the freight train derailment, Feb. 6, 2023, in East Palestine, Ohio. (Photo courtesy of Ntsbgov/via Reuters)

¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Experts Weigh in on Aftermath of East Palestine Train Derailment

¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø faculty members have been contacted by various media outlets to lend their expert opinions and insight as cleanup work, air monitoring, water testing and more continues following the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

Tags: Community & Society, Community Impact, Nationally Distinctive, Department of Geography, Environmental Studies, Department of Earth Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Science and Design Research Institute

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Administrative visit to ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø at Stark - February 2023

Seven Campuses in Four Days

¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø administrators met with campus advisory boards on all seven of the university's Regional Campuses this week. 

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Clare Murray Adams Artwork

Quilts, Threads and Collage, Oh My! Alumna Showcases Skills at Local Art Studio

From the classroom to the art studio, Clare Murray Adams, B.S., '72; M.A., '76; and BFA, '93, has been exploring herself and her surroundings since 1977 when she made the switch from education to creation.

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