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2023 Women's History Month Graphic

Celebrating Women’s History Month at °µÍø½ûÇø

This March, °µÍø½ûÇø is celebrating the 2023 Women’s History Month. The theme for 2023 is “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.â€

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°µÍø½ûÇø Alumna Heather Malarcik is director of Main Street Kent.

°µÍø½ûÇø Alumna Found Her Passion Promoting Downtown Kent

As a °µÍø½ûÇø student in the early 1990s, Heather Rohwedder Malarcik '96 could never have imagined that she would one day find her dream job in downtown Kent, Ohio.

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Kindness Rocks at the Women's Center

Kindness Rocks Kent

People from Kent and °µÍø½ûÇø are sharing positivity and building community with small rocks. 

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Wheelchair Basketball Championship Game 2023

IN A FLASH: Championship Game at the MAC Center!

On Saturday, °µÍø½ûÇø hosted Adaptive Sports Ohio's Wheelchair Basketball Championship. 

Tags: Sports , Community Impact , Community & Society

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Lafayette Tolliver and Gene Shelton identify people in photos on the screen

Visual Footprints in Time

More than 1,000 photos of Black student life have been digitized and are waiting for members of the °µÍø½ûÇø community to help identify them.

Tags: Community & Society , Community Impact , May 4 50

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The view from the control booth at a rehearsal of "Urinetown."

IN A FLASH: Behind the Console for ‘Urinetown’

The view from the control booth at a rehearsal of “Urinetown.â€

Tags: Community Impact , Arts & Culture , School of Theatre and Dance

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Drone footage shows the freight train derailment, Feb. 6, 2023, in East Palestine, Ohio. (Photo courtesy of Ntsbgov/via Reuters)

°µÍø½ûÇø Experts Weigh in on Aftermath of East Palestine Train Derailment

°µÍø½ûÇø faculty members have been contacted by various media outlets to lend their expert opinions and insight as cleanup work, air monitoring, water testing and more continues following the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

Tags: Community & Society , Community Impact , Nationally Distinctive , Department of Geography , Environmental Studies , Department of Earth Sciences , College of Arts and Sciences , Environmental Science and Design Research Institute

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Administrative visit to °µÍø½ûÇø at Stark - February 2023

Seven Campuses in Four Days

°µÍø½ûÇø administrators met with campus advisory boards on all seven of the university's Regional Campuses this week. 

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Clare Murray Adams Artwork

Quilts, Threads and Collage, Oh My! Alumna Showcases Skills at Local Art Studio

From the classroom to the art studio, Clare Murray Adams, B.S., '72; M.A., '76; and BFA, '93, has been exploring herself and her surroundings since 1977 when she made the switch from education to creation.

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