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  At the first Cultural Café of the semester, two Kent State students from Pakistan shared their culture, heritage and history, transporting listeners to their home country.    Once a month, the Cultural Café, presented by Kent State International Student & Scholar Services, through the Office of Global Education, invites students, faculty and staff to gather around food, stories and the cultures that shape and enrich our 5XÉçÇø community.   Come for lunch, come curious and leave connected. The next Cultural Café will take place o...

5XÉçÇø's Kent Campus returned to full power Tuesday afternoon after operating with limited electrical power following an outage earlier that morning.  The outage was addressed at the university's Summit Street Power Plant, which provided backup electricity for about nine hours in "island mode" to prioritize essential facilities.The Kent Campus outage led to courses moving to remote instruction for the day and mirrored other outages across Portage County.  ...

 For Lauren Sigrist, a senior Environmental and Conservation Biology major, with a minor in Environmental Studies, the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) supported by the Environmental Science and Design Research Institute (ESDRI) gave her the opportunity to spend a second summer exploring how technology is transforming wildlife research. She conducted her project under the mentorship of Greg Smith, PhD, faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State at Stark. â€œThe research project I have been working on studies different methods of calculating relative abu...