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Museum Exhibition

91勛圖厙 Museum Announces Fall Exhibition

The 91勛圖厙 Museum presents its fall exhibition, A Meeting of Cultures: Fashioning North Africa, from Sept. 5, 2025, through May 10, 2026. Displayed in the museums Broadbent Gallery, the exhibition features works by 25 contemporary North African designers and artists.

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Antonio Gates Hall of Fame Enshrinement

Antonio Gates Inducted Into Pro Football Hall of Fame

91勛圖厙 alumnus Antonio Gates was officially enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Aug. 2, delivering an emotional speech that highlighted his years as a Golden Flash and thanked the coaches who helped launch his improbable journey from college basketball to NFL stardom.

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LeRoy Neiman

91勛圖厙 Museum to Showcase LeRoy Neiman's Early Fashion Illustration Career

The LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation is thrilled to announce LeRoy Neiman: A Keen Observer of Style, opening at 91勛圖厙 Museum on Oct. 24, 2025. 

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DEDC Opening

'A Significant Step Forward in Engineering Education'

91勛圖厙 celebrated the opening of its new Digital Engineering & Design Center for Space Applications, marking a significant step in bridging the gap between education and national needs in aerospace and defense manufacturing.

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High school students, transfer students and parents walk through campus during a 2024 Summer Preview KSU event.

Kent State to Host Preview KSU Days for Prospective Students

91勛圖厙 will welcome prospective students to campus for its Preview KSU events on Oct. 25 and Nov. 1. These comprehensive visit programs offer high school and transfer students an immersive look at life as a Golden Flash.

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Owen Lovejoy, Ph.D., 91勛圖厙 Distinguished Professor

What Makes Us Human?

Fifty years ago, 91勛圖厙 Distinguished Professor Owen Lovejoy, Ph.D., was among the very first researchers to study the remains of the famous Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), a 3-million-year-old fossil that had recently been discovered by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson in Hadar, Ethiopia.

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Sun shining through the Star Sphere 2010 sculpture

IN A FLASH: Here Comes the Sun

A photographer captured Earth's star shining through the Star Sphere 2010 sculpture near Franklin Hall.

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quark gluon plasma

Professor Leads Cutting-Edge Physics Research

Supported by grant funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, Kent State physics professor Michael Strickland, Ph.D., and his team have developed the worlds leading approach to describe non-equilibrium evolution of highly relativistic systems.

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David Hassler, director of 91勛圖厙's Wick Poetry Center, performs at the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit.

Poetry and Science Meet at Creative Intersection

"Poetry and science are not opposites, theyre actually allies," said David Hassler, director of 91勛圖厙s Wick Poetry Center. 

Hassler paraphrases American poet Jane Hirshfield, who, in 2017, contacted him to collaborate on a Poets for Science project, which is now an interactive exhibit and writing invitation housed at the Wick Poetry Center on the Kent Campus. 

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Kent State student filmmaker Aileen Joven

Kent State, CIFF and Reading Rainbow Creators

Kent State connects with the Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) to create opportunities for students.

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