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President Obama

Olivier Douliery February 2, 2015

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a event to promote a new health care program by approving $215 million for a Precision Medicine Initiative, which is designed to help doctors tailor treatments to...

Beauty and the Beast

MaKayla Brown February 2, 2015

A wrestling match goes on as the Kent State gymnastics team huddles on the floor mat at the third annual Beauty and the Beast event in the M.A.C. Center on Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. The Kent State wrestling...

KSU Hackathon

Rachael Le Goubin February 1, 2015

Team Roame explains the prototype of its design at the finalist presentations of the Fashion/Tech Hackathon event hosted in Rockwell Hall on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015. Roame won first place and a $1,500 award...

Tyler Buckwalter

Graham Smith February 1, 2015

Kent State junior Tyler Buckwalter won by decision over Eastern Michigan's Devan Marry, 9-5, at the Beauty and the Beast wrestling and gymnastics event in the M.A.C. Center on Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. The...

Max Kenworthy

Graham Smith January 28, 2015

Max Kenworthy, age 7 from Kent, jumps into the air to get his head into empty frame hanging in the new MuseLab art gallery in the School of Library and Information Science after putting the tag "this is...

Glitter bombs: Creative revenge or pure evil?

January 27, 2015

An army of shimmering, reflective fragments is suspended in the air before you. It’s as if a million tiny snowflakes were swept inside and glossed over with a metallic sheen. The gleam of the explosion...

Paul Bartrop, the director for the Center of Judaic, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies, speaks at the Cohn Jewish Center. Bartrop discussed representing the Holocaust in film and accurately portraying the Holocaust in modern day media on Jan. 26, 2015.

Film doesn’t replace real survivors’ stories of the Holocaust

Skye McEowen January 26, 2015

A Holocaust survivor’s story cannot be confined to the limits of film.Paul Bartrop, director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, stressed to college...

Snowstorm in John F. Kennedy Plaza

January 26, 2015

AP PHOTO People visit John F. Kennedy Plaza, also known as Love Park during a winter snowstorm Tuesday, Jan. 21, in Philadelphia. A storm is sweeping across the Mid-Atlantic and New England. The National...

Snowstorm in John F. Kennedy Plaza

January 26, 2015

AP PHOTO People visit John F. Kennedy Plaza, also known as Love Park during a winter snowstorm Tuesday, Jan. 21, in Philadelphia. A storm is sweeping across the Mid-Atlantic and New England. The National...

Cody LaRosa, junior exercise science major, and Mike Slezak, senior biology major, have matching tattoos that read “Famiglia Sempre” which means family forever in Italian. “Family is the most important thing to me,” LaRosa said.

The octopus on my arm: Making the choice to ink up

January 26, 2015

It’s a decision often hard to make, but permanently marking one’s body with tattoos does not seem to faze students. According to a study done by the Pew Research Center in 2013, 40 percent of young...

WORLD NEWS SAUDI-ARABIA-KING 1 ZUM

Fiona Hanson January 23, 2015

In this photo from Oct. 29, 2007, The Duke of Edinburgh follows King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia during the ceremonical welcome at Horse Guards Parade in Great Britain. Saudi Arabia's King Abudllah Bin Abdulaziz...

In this photo from Oct. 29, 2007, The Duke of Edinburgh follows King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia during the ceremonical welcome at Horse Guards Parade in Great Britain. Saudi Arabia's King Abudllah Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has died at age 90, state television announced on Jan. 22, 2015. He had been in the hospital for several weeks suffering from a lung infection. Abdullah, a U.S. ally in the fight against al-Qaeda, came to power in 2005 after his half-brother died. (Fiona Hanson/UPPA/Zuma Press/TNS)

AP: New generation enters line to Saudi throne as king mourned

ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI & AYA BATRAWY, Associated Press January 23, 2015

As Saudi Arabia mourned its late ruler, King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud quickly set the course for the monarchy's future Friday by naming a second-in-line to the throne from the next generation of princes...