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Bridging AI and Mental Health

May 15, 2025

Evan Dan, a junior at Solon High School who is enrolled in College Credit Plus (CCP) at 91�ֿ�, received the “Best Paper Award” at the second (AIHealth 2025)…

I Promise participant Don'Marie Reid recently graduated from 91�ֿ� and will return to attend graduate school.

91�ֿ� Graduates in the I Promise Program Are ‘Shining Examples of Scholarship, Service and Passion’

May 12, 2025

Three students who are members of the first cohort of the LeBron James Family Foundation I Promise program graduated from 91�ֿ� during the spring 2025 commencement.

‘It Was Time for Me to Go Home’ – Geography Professor Combed May 4 Oral Histories in Search of Shared Humanity

May 2, 2025

91�ֿ� Associate Professor of Geography Jennifer Mapes, Ph.D., has studied the events of May 4, 1970, through the lens of a map maker.

Being a Hospital’s Moral Compass

May 1, 2025

At the intersection of healthcare and philosophy one 91�ֿ� alumna is hoping to make a profound impact by helping medical professionals navigate the ethical complexities of patient care. Mallory Wietrzykowski, a 91�ֿ� M.A. (Philosophy, 2023)…

Peering into the Past with Billion-Year-Old Bacteria

April 30, 2025

Undergraduate geology student Bryce Stoltz is combining his passion for earth sciences, fieldwork and the physical nature of geology into hands-on research. What began as a spark in a high school environmental sciences class has led to Stoltz contributing to important…

Carston Brumfield, 14, is one of the students from the Stark County Educational Service Center, working on a mural for inside the School of Peace and Conflict Studies in McGilvrey Hall.

What Does Peace Look Like?

April 25, 2025

It may seem like a simple question: What does peace look like? But the answers can be profoundly different depending on who is asked.

Students in front of the Math and Computer Science Building on the Kent Campus

‘The World Of Mathematics Can Be Theirs’

April 24, 2025

Congratulations to Beverly Reed, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at 91�ֿ� for being selected as 91�ֿ�’s 2025 Mid-American Conference (MAC) Outstanding Faculty Award for Student Success. Reed is…

Professor Shares How to Understand and Overcome Burnout

April 23, 2025

Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., professor of psychology at 91�ֿ�, discussed what burnout is and gave a few tips on how to identify and deal with burnout on WBUR's Here and Now.

Sole Mates teams members with their awards

Counting Steps, Not Just Equations:

April 23, 2025

Five 91�ֿ� Deparment of Mathematics faculty members won the 2024 Crosstown Throwdown Move Challenge. Under the team name “Sole Mates”, Beverly Reed, Tuyet Pham, Aaron Allen, Jiafeng Jin and Daisy Arokiasamy competed with the University of Akron and other Kent…

Professor Robert Hamilton at his PBS Nature Series screening

91�ֿ� Scientists Help Spotlight Ohio Wetlands in New PBS Nature Series

April 22, 2025

While more than 90% of Ohio’s wetlands have vanished over the past few centuries, a new nature docuseries aims to show there is hope — and a lot of work being done to protect what remains.

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