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Cemetery Calling

IN A FLASH: Cemetery Calling

Cemetery Calling, the newest play by Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« alumni and staffer Eric Mansfield premiered in Cleveland earlier this year. Another of Mansfield's plays, Trial by Fire, will be performed on campus in Fall 2024. 

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Dame Zandra Rhodes

Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« School of Fashion To Induct Fashion Designer Dame Zandra Rhodes Into Hall of Fame

The School of Fashion at Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University is pleased to announce British designer Dame Zandra Rhodes as the 2024 Hall of Fame Inductee.

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Poetry writing for the total solar eclipse.

Eclipse Poetry: The Convergence of Science and Art

An event like the total solar eclipse observed in Kent on April 8 can help to shake up our lives from the mundane. Poetry can work in the same way, said Chris Wick, son of Walt Wick, one of the founders of Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University’s Wick Poetry Center.

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The Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« library stands tall in darkness while the moon blocks out the sun during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.

Flash of Darkness: Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Celebrates Total Eclipse of the Sun

It was a party 218 years in the making.

The thousands of people who came to Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University on April 8 to witness the total solar eclipse did not leave disappointed by the celestial show, the likes of which had not been seen in Kent, Ohio since 1806.

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Holi 2024

The Festival of Love, Colors and Spring

In late March, groups of Indian students on campus celebrated the popular and significant Hindu festival of Holi. 

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Caden Clark, "A Night Out" by Yinxi Li

IN A FLASH: Campus Reflections

A student photographer for KentWired captured atmospheric images of "A Night Out" on the Kent Campus. 

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Art from Graphic Content exhibition

A Closer Look at ‘Graphic Content’

Alison Caplan, director of the May 4 Visitors Center, provides an up close look at some of the items in the center's "Graphic Content: The Comics of May 4" exhibition.  She also share stories about the art and the artists that created it.  

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Dress up for Downs 2024 Fashion Event

IN A FLASH: Dressing up for Downs

Dress Up for Downs, a Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« student organization recently held its 8th annual fashion show fundraiser . The event, themed "Hollywood Heroes," featured a runway show with designs by Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« fashion design students and raised over $3000 for the Down Syndrome Association of Northeast Ohio. 

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We all belong here Islam graphic

‘How Do We Develop a Culture of Peace?’

One of the many take-aways from the Dialogue and Difference program "Understanding and Combating Islamophobia" was that overcoming Islamophobia and other forms of racism and bigotry may be as simple as remembering the lessons we should have been taught as children. 

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