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Miranda Hanavan dresses in Hankook, traditional Korean clothing, at Korean Folk Village.

Kent State students overcome culture shock both abroad and at home

Samantha Abate, Reporter April 11, 2025

Studying abroad offers Kent State students a chance to explore new cultures and gain life-changing experiences, but students often face culture shock upon arrival and after returning.  Homesickness...

One of the models stops to pose in the 2024 KSU Annual Fashion Show on April 25, 2024.

Kent State annual Fashion Week to showcase student work

Aryn Kauble, Reporter April 10, 2025

Editor's note: This story was updated to correct the starting date of fashion week. Kent State’s annual Fashion Week features a week full of events leading up to the 2025 Annual Fashion Show and Hall...

A waterfall flows among green fields during the first faculty-led Iceland trip.

Study abroad destinations expand with faculty-led trip to Iceland

Samantha Abate, Reporter April 10, 2025

Kent State College of Arts and Sciences is planning a faculty-led trip to Iceland this May, offering an exploration of the country’s landscape, sustainability, culture and geology for the first time...

Illustration by Clare Rodgers.

Kent State students buy through TikTok Shop as platform grows

Robyn Taylor, Reporter April 10, 2025

Americans spend an estimated $32 million per day on TikTok Shop, CapitalOne Shopping Research said. The shopping platform has categories for clothing, beauty, electronics, household goods and more with...

Bailey Fair (left), Saida Lewis (center) and Stella Naymik (right) posing for a picture at the premiere of "A Positive Outcome."

Kent State student wins national film award

Joi Sims, Reporter April 4, 2025

This semester, the Broadcast Education Association awarded a Kent State junior an award of excellence for the quality of her film, making her the first member of the Female Filmmakers Initiative to win.  Bailey...

Dressed in preppy clothes and wig caps, students lined up on Risman Plaza Thursday to compete in the Todd Diacon look-alike contest organized by Her Campus.

Diacon doppelgängers: Students suit up for presidential look-alike contest

Sydney Craig, Reporter April 4, 2025

A small but enthusiastic crowd of students gathered on the K at Risman Plaza to show off their costumes during a Todd Diacon look-alike contest hosted by Her Campus Kent State. While some students didn’t...

With empty classrooms and extra equipment and supplies, the old business building is now a temporary surplus store.

Former business building becomes surplus store

John Engoglia, Beat Reporter April 3, 2025

With the building currently vacant, the old Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship building has transformed into the new university surplus store, offering classroom items and goods...

“The Bracelet Box” frontman Drew McDowell performs for the Stage Zero crowd in the DI Hub Reactor, March 20, 2025.

LaunchNET’s Stage Zero concert showcases student bands, small businesses

Olivia Weber, Reporter April 2, 2025

The Head Trips and Bracelet Box enhanced Kent’s local music scene during Stage Zero at the DI Hub Reactor Thursday March 20, showing the success that can come from student ingenuity.   Both bands...

Tom Neal restocks a vending machine at Kent State.

Meet the man keeping campus vending machines stocked

Jonathan Beard, Reporter April 2, 2025

Prentice Hall sits quietly at 6:30 a.m., with most students sleeping or getting ready for class. Tom Neal is one of the first people active in the building, but he’s neither a student nor a faculty member—he’s...

Pravallika Ramachandrapurapu, master of science in emerging media and technology (right) and Saumi Chatterjee, master of science in communication studies (left), having a conversation in the library.

Kent State’s international students maintain ties to family

Joi Sims, Reporter April 2, 2025

A Kent State student FaceTimes his family as they gather around the phone in Kerala, India. One by one, family members pop in to say hello. While most of his relatives are in India, his brothers also live...

Charity Miller, Kent State University advising director.

Students share insight on graduating early at Kent State

Erin Lavinder, Reporter April 2, 2025

Graduating college early offers the appeal of saving money and accelerating career plans, but it comes at the cost of valuable college experiences like internships and networking.  Angelina Ibarra,...

Decorated by staff of Kent State's LGBTQ+ Center, students and community members on Oct. 7, the Main Street bridge in downtown Kent is decked out in rainbow colors for Rainbow Weekend.

Celebrating Transgender Day of Visibility: Promoting inclusion and awareness on campus

Savannah Carroll, Reporter April 2, 2025

Transgender Day of Visibility is celebrated annually on March 31 and shines a light on the achievements and resilience of transgender and nonbinary individuals. Kent State University students and faculty...

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