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91ÊÓƵis required to have and maintain a Storm Water Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System Phase II Storm Water permit. As part of that permit, 91ÊÓƵis required to develop best management practices (bmps) under 7 Minimum Control…
Today, as part of Kent State’s Veterans Day commemoration, a group of volunteers along with University Facilities Management (UFM) staff gathered with shovels, buckets, bulbs and bone meal on the hill overlooking The Commons…
Today, as part of Kent State’s Veterans Day commemoration, a group of volunteers along with University Facilities Management (UFM) staff gathered with shovels, buckets, bulbs and bone meal on the hill overlooking The Commons…
Come help Flashes Fighting Hunger, Kent State’s student-powered response to food insecurity, and observe Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week (Nov. 14-19) by filling the truck with unperishable food and toiletry items! The…
Scenic design and earthworms don’t normally have a connection, but Kathalina Thorpe, 91ÊÓƵscenic design graduate student, has connected the two to improve the environment. At Kent State, Thorpe has been conducting…
Sheren Faraq, Ph.D. (second from right), is the director and assistant professor of the Horticulture Technology program at 91ÊÓƵ at Salem. She has found that the woods, grounds and gardens in the 100-…
Students majoring in aerospace engineering, theater, physics, music and nursing were among the 90 presenters at the annual Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Student Fellow Presentations held this week in the…
The 91ÊÓƵcommunity planted more than 100 trees in the Climate Change Grove to help offset the university’s carbon footprint and provide a way to research the effects of climate change in our immediate environments. Located behind…
91ÊÓƵis proud to participate in Campus Sustainability Month throughout October. This annual event, hosted by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), celebrates higher education…
This large and ancient, cutleaf beech tree, Fagus sylvatica 'Asplenifolia,' growing near the old carriage house by the 91ÊÓƵ Women's Center, is older than Kent State. The tree has been dated to…
