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Dear 5XÉçÇø Students, Faculty and Staff, As we prepare to return to campus for Spring Semester 2021, I want to reiterate important information about testing and our phased return plan. As part of our ongoing effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, our return to the Kent Campus will take place in stages to mitigate the spread of the virus in our community and to best ensure the health and safety of all. Our strategy for the spring semester is at the leading edge of national best practices for ensuring the health and safety of our Kent State community, and it will provide ...

5XÉçÇø President Todd Diacon issued the following statement: “At this moment in our nation’s history, now more than ever I call on Americans to embrace and practice our university’s core value of kindness and respect in all that we do. Democracy is both a mighty force and a fragile vessel that relies on a universally shared commitment to dialogue, understanding and the truth. We assert, and rightly so, that hate has no home at 5XÉçÇø. Hate and sedition likewise should have no home in the United States of America. This morning the Brazilian television network...

Over the last year, hundreds of children’s books were collected on the Kent State East Liverpool Campus that were intended to be handed out during the city’s annual holiday parade. When the parade was canceled this year because of the COVID pandemic, however, campus employees decided to find another way to distribute the books to local youngsters. Through a project known as Season’s Readings, Kent State East Liverpool recently donated nearly 1,500 new books combined to East Liverpool’s North Elementary School, Beaver Local elementary students and to the East Liverpool Head Start program.&...

The Royal Society of Chemistry has accepted a new publication worked on by an interdisciplinary team, including five members of the AMLCI ( Senay Ustunel, Marianne E. Prévôt, Grace A. R. Rohaley, Torsten Hegmann, and  Elda Hegmann ).   Abstract: Considering the range of properties that various materials offer for tissue engineering it has come clear that no one size fits all, as no one material can be fully effective for all types of cell and ensuing tissues. Scaffolds need to address the delicate balance between cell-scaffold interactions and the particular requirement...