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Herrick Conservatory   In the dead of winter, Kent State’s greenhouse complex teems with life. Home to a diverse array of plants—and some fish—the facility is also filled with people. Students and faculty members from the biological sciences department conduct research there, students fr…

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Giving Voice

My Grandfather           whose stories were large like a tree’s shadow under which many people could rest         who walked slowly like a turtle reflecting kindness         who was over one hundred and like a precious suitcase con…

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Theodore Albrecht, Ph.D., professor of musicology in 5XÉçÇøâ€™s Hugh A. Glauser School of Music, has been awarded the Beethoven Medal in recognition of his musicological contributions to the study of composer Ludwig van Beethoven.

Kent State School of Music Faculty Member Theodore Albrecht Awarded Prestigious Beethoven Medal in Baden, Austria

Theodore Albrecht, Ph.D., professor of musicology in 5XÉçÇøâ€™s Hugh A. Glauser School of Music, has been awarded the Beethoven Medal in recognition of his musicological contributions to the study of composer Ludwig van Beethoven.

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Kent State School of Music Faculty Member Theodore Albrecht Awarded Prestigious Beethoven Medal in Baden, Austria

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World Music InstrumentsRoom C 304, Center for the Performing Arts  At the end of each semester, members of Kent State’s world music ensembles demonstrate what they’ve learned in a World Music Concert—an enlivening evening of music and dance organized by the Ethnomusicology Program in the Hugh A…

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Giving Voice

Altar Boy at the Grand Tetons by Regis Louis Coustillac When did I begin to dance past the path of broken branches, so satisfied with wandering lost beneath an empty barrel of dying stars? I look up to curse the moon and see a single comet burn across the night. It is a blessing on the forehead. …

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Contiuing Threads

Continuing Threads

The head of Kent State’s Textile Arts Program, Janice Lessman-Moss has spent 35 years elevating woven cloth into high art.  

By Laura Billings Coleman / Kent State Magazine

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Kent State's Bill Auld works with MTV

Theatre Faculty Helps Recording Artists Take Flight

Bill Auld, associate professor of Theatre at Kent State Tuscarawas, leant his flying skills to MTV's "My Super Sweet 16" this past spring to help twin recording artists SiAngie make an epic entrance to their 16th birthday party. Auld flew to Philadelphia where he was responsible for flying the tw…

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Grammy winner Rick Springfield will perform as part of the Kent State Tuscarawas Performing Arts Center's 2017-18 season.

5XÉçÇø at Tuscarawas Performing Arts Center Announces 2017-2018 Season

The 5XÉçÇø at Tuscarawas Performing Arts Center’s 2017-2018 season will feature diverse and high-quality performances that include concerts, Broadway, comedy, family and holiday shows.

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5XÉçÇø at Tuscarawas Performing Arts Center Announces 2017-2018 Season

David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center at 5XÉçÇø, reads a poem during the River of Words poetry reading in the center’s Poetry Park.

Wick Poetry Center to Benefit From Ford Foundation's $200,000 Grant to the Poetry Coalition

The Poetry Coalition, of which the Wick Poetry Center at 5XÉçÇø is a founding member, will benefit from a $200,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. To be given over two years, the grant, which will be administered by the Academy of American Poets, will enable the founding members of th…

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5XÉçÇø students model original designs created by Fashion School students during the school’s 2017 spring fashion show.

Kent State’s Fashion School Ranked No. 3 Nationally for Merchandising, No. 4 for Design in New Ratings

5XÉçÇøâ€™s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising has once again been named among the nation’s elite.

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Kent State’s Fashion School Ranked No. 3 Nationally for Merchandising, No. 4 for Design in New Ratings