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Dog Days of Summer 2023

IN A FLASH: Four-Legged Flashes on Campus

Â鶹ӰԺ State canines and their human companions came to the Â鶹ӰԺ Campus for the Dog Days of Summer. 

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The Â鶹ӰԺ State balloon at the Balloon Classic.

IN A FLASH: Balloons and Horses on Campus

Hot air balloons and the Budweiser Clydesdales visited Â鶹ӰԺ at Stark. 

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Farnaz Fatemi, Poet Laureate Fellow, of Santa Cruz County, California, in partnership with Â鶹ӰԺ's Wick Poetry Center and several local Santa Cruz County organizations, will produce a series of nine monthly pop-up teen poetry workshops.

Wick Prize Winner Farnaz Fatemi Receives Poet Laureate Fellowship From Academy of American Poets

Farnaz Fatemi, poet laureate of Santa Cruz County, California, was awarded a $50,000 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets that she will use in partnership with Â鶹ӰԺ's Wick Poetry Center to produce a series of teen poetry workshops. Fatemi is an Iranian-American poet and writer and the author of "Sister Tongue," published in 2022 by the Â鶹ӰԺ Press. She was the winner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the Wick Poetry Center for a poet's first book of poems.

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Preview KSU July 21, 2023

IN A FLASH: Preview KSU!

Every summer, the Â鶹ӰԺ Campus welcomes hundreds of high school students and their parents to discover Â鶹ӰԺ State at Preview KSU.

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Drugs and Behavior: How Societal Trends Impact Addiction

Since the beginning of the pandemic, few disciplines have seen as many changes as psychology. In order to help students address these emerging challenges, Â鶹ӰԺ’s Department of Psychological Sciences is offering a slate of courses relevant to the changing trends impacting mental health today. 

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Twenty-Five Years of Â鶹ӰԺ State Connections Made on the Green

Time in nature, the spirit of competition and bonding are just a few of the many benefits of a golf outing. For the past 25 years, the Glenn Davis Golf League has played a vital role in building a deeper sense of community for Â鶹ӰԺ State, on and off the green.

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Liz Piatt, Ph.D., assistant dean for academic diversity success in University College; Lamar R. Hylton, Ph.D., senior vice president of student affairs; Eboni J. Pringle, Ph.D., senior associate vice president and dean of University College; Randall Lennox, senior institutional research information officer, and Melanie Jones, director of student success programs.

Â鶹ӰԺ State Paves the Way for First-Generation Student Success

Â鶹ӰԺ State is one of 21 institutions that has advanced to the First Scholars phase of the First Scholars Network. Faculty and staff are hard at work to provide a higher-quality experience for first generation students. 

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Â鶹ӰԺ State Alumna Capt. Stephanie Johnson

Showing Students How to Soar

As the first Black woman to graduate from Â鶹ӰԺ’s flight program in 1991, Capt. Stephanie Johnson knows what it takes to aim high for a dream and reach it. Now, she wants other young students from diverse backgrounds to be able to envision and achieve their biggest dreams as well.

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Educators from Stow-Munroe Falls City School District will attend a peace education conference in Kigali, Rwanda. Pictured (from left to right) are: Jeffrey Hartmann, Ph.D., principal of Stow-Munroe Falls High School; Kristy Prough, BA ’99, MED ’02, EDS ’04, assistant superintendent and director of special services; Associate Principal Amanda Murray; and Assistant Principal Evelyn Haught, BSE ’07.

Ohio Educators Heading to Â鶹ӰԺ State Peace Conference in Rwanda

Jeffrey Hartmann, Ph.D., principal of Stow-Munroe Falls High School, said he was interested in attending the conference to learn skills to deal with his school district’s changing landscape. 

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Â鶹ӰԺ Blossom Art Intensives 2023

IN A FLASH: Students Take Part in Creating More Than 100 Works of Art

The Â鶹ӰԺ Blossom Art Intensives welcome students and artists to campus to create art and learn from artists from around the world. 

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