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The 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University alumni family will grow by more than 1,000 new graduates from its eight-campus system across Ohio as the university holds its summer commencement ceremony. The accomplishments of the Summer Class of 2025 will be recognized with a commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. on Aug. 9. 

Two 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University alumni will be in the spotlight this week as the Pro Football Hall of Fame celebrates its Class of 2025, with Antonio Gates set for enshrinement Saturday and Mary Kay Cabot receiving prestigious recognition for her four decades of sports journalism excellence.

Dedicated in April 2015, The Student Memorial Garden on Manchester Field was created as a place of reflection and remembrance of all 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ students who have died. 

Orange barrels will soon appear on a three-quarter-mile stretch of Ohio Route 59/East Main Street that runs through 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University’s Front Campus, marking the start of a three-year construction project to make the thoroughfare safer and more attractive.

The Summer Undergraduate Research Experience is a great opportunity for undergraduate researchers such as Ethan Wenk to work directly with a faculty mentor, gain valuable experience to clarify career and educational goals, enhance research skills and gain academic insight.

91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University will be closed July 4 to observe Independence Day. No classes are scheduled on the holiday, and university offices are closed. The university will resume normal operations on July 7.

A Mantua woman who worked at 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in the Office of the President from 1951 to 1971 recently celebrated her 110th birthday. She recalls her time at 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and shares a few reflections from her long life. 

Water flowed for the first time in the newly completed Crawford Fountain in the courtyard outside Crawford Hall, home of 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ's Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship. 

The 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University Board of Trustees approved the establishment of two new schools – the School of Aeronautics and the School of Engineering – within the College of Aeronautics and Engineering during the Board’s regular quarterly meeting held June 25, 2025, on the Kent Campus.

An innovative design, energy-efficient systems, water conservation technologies and environmentally responsible construction materials are some of the features that earned Crawford Hall, 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University’s newest – and largest – academic building, LEED Silver certification by the U.S. Green Building Council.

The skies are calling once again, and 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University’s Flying Flashes are answering, this time with their sights set on a fourth consecutive intercollegiate victory in the Areaseir Race Classic.

The 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 25, in the Timothy D. Eippert Boardroom, Suite 412, at Crawford Hall on the Kent Campus. 

More than 280 people attended the 2025 ITGA City & University Relations Conference, which kicked off at the Kent Student Center ballroom on June 4. Todd Kamenash, 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ’s associate dean of students for conduct & community engagement, chaired the ITGA conference, which had the theme Communicate, Collaborate and Celebrate.

As the iconic Goodyear Blimp marks its 100th anniversary, 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University’s connection to aviation history is soaring to new heights. Three alumni of the university’s aeronautics program are among the aviators steering this American icon through its centennial celebration.

For all of her exemplary work, Theresa Yogi was recently awarded 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ’s Distinguished Advising Award by University Advising and the Kent Academic Advising Support and Advising Association. Of her 13-year career, Yogi has spent seven-and-a-half years at 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ’s Honors College.

The roster of these current and former faculty assembled for 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ's silver anniversary reads like the legend on a campus map, as so many in the 1935 photo had university buildings named for them. 

In May, 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University observes two historic institutional anniversaries, the first is of their founding as a school and the second is of the college being established as a university. 

91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University’s nationally distinctive Master of Public Health (MPH) program provides students interested in continuing their public health educational journey online with several options, including the MPH with concentrations in health policy and management or social and behavioral sciences, and the STEM-designated MPH in epidemiology. The program positively impacts current graduate students and alumni in different ways.