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A student is forced to walk outside the cross walk due to construction at the Center for Performing Arts on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017.

Loud and clear: Speech clinic addition will come to Center for Performing Arts

Colin Baker October 6, 2017

Kent State speech and pathology majors will have a new classroom early next year in the Center for Performing Arts.The $1,500,000 addition will provide speech and pathology faculty and students with a...

Keeping it cool: Residence halls welcome air conditioning

Colin Baker September 14, 2017

The Lake and Olson residence halls now have air conditioning, new roofing and carpeting this semester, with similar renovations coming to Verder Hall a year from now.“It’s been the most amazing addition...

Rootstown school district debates potential tax for renovations

Kaitlyn LeBeau April 8, 2015

Rootstown school district discusses potential JEDD from KentWired.com on Vimeo.

 A construction worker for Canton Floors Inc. measures a beam outside of the Art Annex on Wednesday Jan. 28, 2015. Construction on the art building is set to be complete in early June.

School of Art to have a place to call home

Andrea Delph February 8, 2015

Renovations and additions for the Center for the Visual Arts are to be completed by Spring 2016 to bring all visual arts programs and disciplines under one roof for the first time in decades —will be...

Professor Chris Maurer (the second from right) and his students in the third year architecture design studio class pose for a photo after discussing the community engagement for their renovation project in Cleveland Friday, Feb. 28, 2014.

Architecture students work toward redeveloping Cleveland house

Justin Sheil March 4, 2014

Third-year Kent State architecture students are making an impact this semester by designing concepts for a studio course that will result in actual renovations to a blighted house in the St. Clair Superior...

Students study in the newly renovated VCD wing on the MAC Annex Tuesday Feb. 10, 2014. The entire section used to be a pool, with the diving board loacted in the next door classroom.

Empty gym annex pool gets repurposed as design studio

Justin Sheil February 11, 2014

The space formerly housing the 10,000-square-foot pool in Kent State’s Gym Annex has been repurposed as studio space for the School of Visual Communication Design.The $2.3 million renovation project...