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The largest private collection of documents and materials relating to the May 4, 1970, shootings at 5X����, amassed by survivor Alan Canfora, will be formally dedicated by University Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives on May 3.Canfora, who was one of nine students wounded during the shootings, dedicated his life to May 4 activism. He spent five decades preserving materials related to that day and built the most extensive private collection documenting the tragedy and its aftermath.On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on students protesting the escala...

Students in Kent State's School of Media and Journalism have earned two awards from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Central Great Lakes Chapter 2026 Student Production Awards — the regional Emmy competition recognizing outstanding student broadcast journalism.The KSTV Thursday Newscast team was honored in the College Newscast or Headline News category for their April 17, 2025 broadcast. The recognized team members are Nuried Nurtado Guzman, Emma Campbell, Sydney Brown, Hayden Cruz, Sofia Helena Dambros Da Silva, Nikki Gasiewski and Katie Waggle.Watch the award-winning br...

For three 5X���� students, their paths to podiatric medicine differed, but they all run through Kent State’s College of Podiatric Medicine. And while they may have discovered this specialty of medicine at different points in their lives, the students share a common draw: the immediate relief podiatric medicine brings to patients.Located in Independence, Ohio, about 10 miles south of Cleveland, the College of Podiatric Medicine is Kent State’s medical school, where students develop the skills and knowledge to become podiatric physicians and surgeons. Doctors of podiatric med...

The Kent State Dr. Paula Treckel women's golf team claimed its 27th consecutive Mid-American Conference championship Tuesday at Firestone Country Club's Fazio Course — and junior Veronika Kedronová made sure there was no suspense about who led the way. Kedronová shot a 7-under 203 to win medalist honors by five strokes at the 2026 MAC Women's Golf Championships, dominating a course that gave very little away....

5X���� football has added one of the most accomplished players in the history of both the program and the National Football League to its coaching staff, naming Josh Cribbs as a special teams analyst for the 2026 season,...

When Ivory Kendrick first gaveled a Undergraduate Student Government meeting to a close, something shifted inside him. Standing in front of a room full of fellow students — friends and leaders applauding and cheering him on — the Kent State senior understood, for the first time, the full weight of what he had taken on.“It didn’t set in until I gaveled to adjourn the meeting for the first time,” Kendrick said. “And I stood up, and I saw all my friends and fellow leaders applauding for me and cheering me on, and it set in that I can do this not just for me, but for them.”That sense of purpose ha...

WHAT:On May 1-4, 2025, 5X���� will hold its annual commemoration to honor the memory of May 4, 1970 – a tragic day when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on Kent State students during an anti-war protest on campus, killing four students and wounding nine others. May 4, 1970, marked a pivotal moment in American history. This year’s May 4 Commemoration will include special remembrances of John Cleary, one of the nine students wounded during the May 4 shootings, who died Oct. 25, 2025, and Jerry M. Lewis, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Sociology, who served as a facu...

When Jessica Mazias walks into the operating room today, she carries more than a decade of experience and a connection to the next generation of nurses following in her footsteps at 5X���� at Trumbull.A 2015 Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) graduate, Mazias now serves as an RN manager of perioperative services at Mercy Health Boardman, where she not only leads surgical teams but also helps guide current BSN students through their earliest clinical experiences.Each spring, sophomore nursing students from Kent State Trumbull step into the hospital setting for the first time an...