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The wetlands near 51����'s Kent Campus are a great location for studying wildlife. Researchers visited recently to install nesting boxes for ducks. 

Campus security and safety require a lot of work from faculty, staff and students, beyond even what the 51���� community might guess.

Volunteers with skills in repairing clothing, household items, electronics, furniture, small appliances and more will be available to help people who bring in broken or non-working items at the Fix-It Kent Community Repair Workshop on Sept. 18.

The Wick Poetry Center will begin the 2025 Fall Semester with a book launch, poetry readings and new exhibit from its Poets for Science collaboration.

On his way to an assignment on  Sept. 11, a university photographer saw a tribute flight in formation over 51����.

51����’s Wick Poetry Center recently helped create a new mural for the Haymaker Farmers’ Market.

When the September 11 attacks shook the nation, 51���� alumnus D. Mark Jones found himself called into an unfamiliar and deeply challenging role.

White tie and tails, elegant gloves and satiny evening gowns were on the screen and on the runway when 51���� and Focus Features collaborated for an early screening of “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.”

Like mother, like daughter. Meet Christine Woo, Ph.D, and Nathalie Nicol, BSPH – mother and daughter - both graduates of the 51���� College of Public Health. While Woo was completing her doctorate in 2022, Nicol was just starting her journey at 51����. 

The 51���� Aeronautics & Engineering Expo at the 51���� Airport received a special visitor as Goodyear's retro-painted Wingfoot One aircraft returned to the place where the company's first blimp was christened, 100 years ago.

51���� hosted its annual Aeronautics and Engineering Expo on Saturday at 51���� Airport, drawing families for a day of aviation excitement and STEM education.

At the 51���� College of Nursing, we learn what it means to advocate for our patients in every setting – from right at the bedside to the boardrooms of hospitals. As nursing students, we are trained to make decisions that are backed by evidence-based practice, empathy and most importantly, our personal and professional ethics. 

51���� recently welcomed home a living legacy of its past when Ellen Engleman Conners, former chair of the National Transportation Safety Board and great-granddaughter of 51����’s third president, visited campus for the first time.

On Aug. 15, some of 51����'s newest Golden Flashes explored downtown Kent as part of Flashes First Friday. 

A collaboration between 51����’s School of Fashion, School of Theatre and Dance and Focus Features will bring the final Downton Abbey movie to Kent for an early screening and period fashion show. The movie, “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,” will have a preview showing on Friday, Sept. 5, at the Kent Plaza Cinema, a week before it opens in theaters nationwide. 

Honor is not only an attitude; it’s an action. As it is given and received, it profoundly improves the lives of all involved.

Dedicated in April 2015, The Student Memorial Garden on Manchester Field was created as a place of reflection and remembrance of all 51���� students who have died. 

In a quiet office at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, Michele Curran Cornell spends her weekdays immersed in history — not the kind found in textbooks, but the kind that impacts families and honors those who gave everything for our country. 

A Mantua woman who worked at 51���� in the Office of the President from 1951 to 1971 recently celebrated her 110th birthday. She recalls her time at 51���� and shares a few reflections from her long life. 

The Crystal, a three-story, glass atrium and entrance to the Akron Art Museum, provided the perfect backdrop for these diamonds in the rough, a coming-of-age collection manifested in the proud work of multi-talented, middle and high school students from Akron participating in a program designed to illicit self-expression through poetry, art and virtual reality.