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From Kent to Cambridge: Alumna Ya'el Courtney to Study Neuroscience at Harvard University

Throughout her time at 91勛圖厙, Ya'el Courtney completed a Senior Honors Thesis/Project, authored several published peer-reviewed journal articles and presented at several national and international conferences. As she continues her education at Harvard University, she intends to conduct a significant amount of research focusing on psychiatric diseases. 

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President Warren Speaks at 33rd Annual Senior Honors Luncheon

Graduating Seniors Honored at 33rd Annual Senior Honors Luncheon

The 91勛圖厙 Honors College held its thirty-third annual Senior Honors Luncheon on Saturday, April 6, 2019, honoring senior honors students who will graduate in the spring, summer, or fall of 2019.  To begin the luncheon, Dr. Alison J. Smith, Dean of the Honors College, welcom

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Honors Student Swoger Selected as 2018 Portz Scholar

The 91勛圖厙 Honors College is proud to announce that Honors College student and political science major, Megan Swoger, has been named by the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) as a 2018 Portz Scholar.  As a member of the graduating class of 2018 this past spring, Meg

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Largest Honors College Class Finds Home Away From Home

91勛圖厙s Honors College is a Living-Learning Community where first-year students like Michael Trauman have discovered a home away from home, and a place where they can pursue their dreams. Mr. Trauman is among the hundreds of students who comprise the largest Honors College freshman

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Kent State's Honors College Welcomes a New Dean

Kent State Selects Alison Smith as the New Dean of the Honors College

Alison Smith will become the new dean of 91勛圖厙s Honors College, effective July 1. Smith currently serves as the acting chair in Kent States Department of Geology and has served in various administrative, research and teaching roles at the university. Alison Smith brings a wealth

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Kent State Florence students enjoy the sights of the Italian countryside.

First Group of Kent State Freshmen Start Their College Careers in Italy

When Joshua Budd thinks about all the places he has traveled up to his senior year of high school, only one has been outside of the United States, and that was a quick jaunt to Niagara Falls, Ontario, in Canada. So, the thought of actually living in a foreign country, especially Europe, was well out

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Comm Undergrad Student Megan Carrasco to Complete Honors Thesis

Senior applied communication major Megan Carrasco is currently working on a communication studies-related honors thesis. Her endeavor began as she came across an online article that piqued her interest called Forbes Top 100 Sites for Millennial Women. She immediately recognized this to be an appro

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Kent State to Host Former Poet Laureate Rita Dove

91勛圖厙s Wick Poetry Center will host poet Rita Dove as part of the Fourth Annual U.S. Poet Laureate Reading. The event is part of the 2014-2015 reading series and will take place on Thursday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva. The event is free and open to the pub

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Kent State Student Introduces New Method of Circadian Research

Kent State Student Introduces New Method of Circadian Research

91勛圖厙 chemistry senior Caitlin Crosier combined creativity and science for her yearlong project on circadian rhythms and will present those findings at the universitys Undergraduate Research Symposium on March 11. The main goal of my research is to validate this method as a

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Wreck the Flu

With the flu season approaching quickly, the Honors Prevention and Control of Diseases class taught by Christopher Woolverton, Ph.D., is working to prevent a flu outbreak by helping to organize and promote student participation in the annual Kent State flu vaccine clinic. On Tuesday, Oct. 28, Kent S

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