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Jermaine Gordon

Jermaine Gordon

Courtesy of Jermaine Gordon March 3, 2022

Jermaine Gordon is sophomore biology major who participated in SURE, the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience program.

Ann Gosky is the director of research and sponsored programs at Kent State University. 

SURE program provides student researchers with extensive research projects

Alexus Rayzer Reporter March 3, 2022

SURE is a summer research program that grants student researchers funds for faculty-run research fellowships. “It’s a fellowship,” said Ann Gosky, the director of the Division of Research and Sponsored...

Senior forward Lindsey Thall and sophomore guard Casey Santoro celebrate during the Kent State women's basketball game against Miami at Kent on Feb. 7. 

Women’s basketball drops final road game of season

Kathryn Rajnicek Reporter March 2, 2022

Kent State’s women’s basketball team (17-11, 9-10 MAC) lost its final road game of the season 69-60 against Bowling Green State University (15-13, 10-9 MAC) Wednesday. “I was proud of our team’s...

Olesia Markovic, a journalist from Kyiv, Ukraine who has written for the Kyiv Post, Al Jazeera, CNN, BBC and Voice of America, speaks to Kent State students on March 1 from a friend's house after fleeing Russian airstrikes in the capital.

Ukrainian journalist speaks to communication students after fleeing her home in Kyiv

Alton Northup Senior Reporter March 2, 2022

Olesia Markovic is no stranger to conflict in Eastern Europe. As a journalist she has covered violence in Serbia, Kosovo, Chechnya and Transnistria, but she never expected to see war in her home country...

President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington. (Saul Loeb, Pool via AP)

President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address

CNN Staff March 2, 2022

    (CNN) -- President Joe Biden delivered his first State of the Union address on Tuesday -- using the occasion to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, promote his first year in the White House...

Kharkiv Debris

Kharkiv Debris

Andrew Marienko March 2, 2022

Firefighters extinguish a building of Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) after a rocket attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Russia's assault on Kharkiv, Ukraine's...

Redshirt junior guard Sincere Carry makes a shot in the Kent State men's basketball team's win over Akron on Friday, Feb. 12 in Akron, Ohio.

Kent State wins 11th straight game heading into final regular season game

Jacob Hansen Reporter March 2, 2022

Defense made the difference for Kent State’s basketball team as it beat Northern Illinois 63-55 to extend their win streak to 11 games. It is the longest win streak for the Flashes since the 2001-02...

Nathan Ritchey (right) and volunteers packing up a visitor's food.

Flashes Fighting Hunger offers twice a week food drive

Taylor Haydu Reporter March 2, 2022

Flashes Fighting Hunger organizes food drives Wednesday and Friday afternoons to battle food insecurity in the community.The food is provided through partnerships and donations from stores and food banks...

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produce

Taylor Haydu March 2, 2022

Some of the produce options available at weekly Flashes Fighting Hunger food drives.

LGBTQ+ hate crimes in the U.S. in 2020, as stated in Statisa.

LGBTQ+ hate crimes rise in the U.S., none reported at Kent State

Avery Savage Reporter March 2, 2022

Lawmakers in seven states proposed laws to limit transgender and nonbinary youth rights within the first week of 2022. As anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is making its way through state government, LGBTQ+ hate...

UN Climate Report Africa

UN Climate Report Africa

Brian Inganga March 2, 2022

FILE - Herder Yusuf Abdullahi walks past the carcasses of his forty goats that died of hunger during a drought in Dertu, Wajir County, Kenya on Oct. 24, 2021. Africa has contributed relatively little to...

5 takeaways from President Biden’s State of the Union speech

Kevin Liptak CNN March 2, 2022

(CNN) -- President Joe Biden took to his biggest stage of the year Tuesday amid the most consequential stretch of his presidency so far.Confronting a war in Europe at the same moment he works to improve...

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