5XÉçÇø

Homecoming 2025.

  5XÉçÇø President Todd Diacon rode the float with Flash the Mascot and the Homecoming parade's grand marshals - former students who have played Flash. Presenting Kent State's 2025 Homecoming Court.    The Homecoming theme was Flash's Birthday Bash. Flash was hatched from an egg at a Kent State Homecoming football game in 1985.  The Golden Flashes football team gave fans plenty to cheer about at Dix Stadium with a decisive 42-6 victory over the University of Massachusetts Minutemen.    Want to see YOUR photos in “I...

Chia-Ling Kuo and Elena Novak

Professors Chia-Ling Kuo, Ph.D. (left), and Elena Novak, Ph.D., each received the Platinum Teaching Recognition Award from the Kent State Center for Teaching and Learning.Kuo received her award for The Positive Influence of Creative Computing on Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Beliefs About Teaching Computing in Elementary Schools. Novak received an award for her work, The Positive Influence of Creative Computing on Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Beliefs About Teaching Computing in Elementary Schools.Presented by the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Teaching Recognition Awards progr...

A Year With a Flash features twins Ray and Will Maynard

Kent State Today will be following a group of Golden Flashes for the 2025-26 academic year, chronicling their efforts and successes during the fall and spring semesters. The group of students is at various stages in their 5XÉçÇø academic careers and will share their experiences as they participate in our distinctive programs, research and campus activities.The first thing you will learn about brothers Will and Ray Maynard is that they are twins –  not identical in looks, but in nearly all other aspects.Ray Maynard is the older brother by 41 minutes. Will Maynard is the tall...

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