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What are they going to call us next?

Sophie Young Reporter • February 6, 2022

The English language enveloped words from other cultures just as European nations enveloped “discovered” countries into their empires. As a result, English-speakers are left with phrases that are a...

Student artist finds his passion in abstraction

Sylvia Lorson Art and Architecture reporter • October 28, 2019

Senior painting and art education major Griffin Allman’s eyes lit up as he described the potential shapes in the support beams, the stairs and the floor around him and how he could piece them together...

Merriam-Webster adds the nonbinary pronoun ‘they’ to its dictionary

By Kendall Trammell, CNN • September 18, 2019

Originally Published: 17 SEP 19 14:45 ETUpdated: 18 SEP 19 06:27 ET (CNN) -- Merriam-Webster has officially added the nonbinary pronoun "they" as an entry in its dictionary.Merriam-Webster announced...

Institute for Applied Linguistics receives $1 million grant

Ray Padilla • May 25, 2017

The Gawlicki Family Foundation granted Kent State’s Institute for Applied Linguistics (IAL) $1 million to fund the development of distance learning translation studies programs.“We are tremendously...