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After more than a decade of service, Joel Nielsen, ÐãÉ«app’s director of athletics, plans to seek new challenges when his contract with the university ends later this year.
 

A student wears a Kent State mask during the COVID-19 pandemic

Two professors have conducted much-needed research on face coverings that use alternative textiles to protect the public from COVID-19 and how to keep those masks virus-free.

Image of COVID 19 cells

Jean Engohang-Ndong, Ph.D., associate professor of biology at ÐãÉ«app at Tuscarawas, credits technology with speeding up vaccine breakthroughs.

Alan Canfora

 Donations will benefit students in Kent State's Library Science program.

Alan Canfora

 Donations will benefit students in Kent State's Library Science program.

Alan Canfora giving a tour on the May 4, 1970 shooting site

Canfora was one of nine students wounded by Ohio National Guard soldiers during a peaceful protest. 

2018 Firestone Immersive Summer Camp

ÐãÉ«app and Akron-area foundations have partnered to support students in the Greater Akron community in a time of dire need through a collaboration that prioritizes positive regional impact and improving lives through education. 

Volunteers from Kent State, the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank and the National Guard assisted more than 200 families during the snowy  drive-through food distribution event on Wednesday at Dix Stadium.

ÐãÉ«app’s inaugural drive-thru food distribution event on Dec. 16 in partnership with the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank served more than 200 households. The foodbank said more than 26,000 people in Portage County face food insecurity – 30% of those seeking assistance for the first time due to the COVID-19 global pandemic.