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For years, Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Ph.D., has studied wetlands and the complex ways they filter water, store carbon and support ecosystems across Ohio. Along the way, she found herself asking a different kind of question: how do you tell the story of science in a way that helps people feel connected to it?This summer, she will have a dedicated week to explore that question alongside several other researchers, including Christabel Devadoss, Ph.D., a two-time 51������ alumna whose work focuses on environmental decision-making and community narratives in rural Rust Belt communities. Kinsm...

The 51������ University Museum and the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board announce “Ohioans in Space: The Carl E. Walz Spacesuit from the 51������ University Museum,” a special installation opening on May 19 at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, celebrating Ohio’s legacy of excellence in aviation and space exploration. The installation will be on view through Nov. 3.The 51������ University Museum, which holds one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of fashion, textiles and decorative arts, is bringing a spacesuit from its collection into the heart of Ohio’s Capitol, undersc...

When 51������ University President Todd Diacon took the stage at Spring 2026 Commencement, he didn't open with statistics or institutional milestones. He opened with a potato peeler.Drawing on his own work history, from a Kansas restaurant at age 14 to a college career mastering the Hobart commercial dishwasher, Diacon delivered an address built around a thesis he clearly believes deeply. 51������ students are, in his words, "proudly not pampered." They work. They balance. They earn their way through college while building the skills, grit, fortitude and experience that make them...

From the time she was in seventh grade, 51������ School of Fashion alumni Siera Santos Terry knew she wanted to attend 51������.  With an entrepreneurial mindset from the time she was 11, where she sold her brand Things by CiCi at craft fairs, attending the 51������ Master of Fashion Industry Studies (M.F.I.S.) program during her college years was almost inevitable. Combining the craft of fashion and entrepreneurship, 51������'s M.F.I.S. program elevated Terry's natural talent for selling products and running her own businesses. Throughout her time earning her Bachelor o...

51������ Today is following a group of Golden Flashes for the 2025-26 academic year, chronicling their efforts and successes during the fall and spring semesters. The students are at various stages of their academic careers and will share their experiences as they participate in 51������'s distinctive programs, research and campus activities.Just one more year at 51������ University and 19-year-old twin brothers Ray and Will Maynard of Green, Ohio, expect to be graduating and, hopefully, off to medical school.The pair, biological sciences majors in the College of Arts and Scien...

The 51������ University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, May 20, in the Cene Lecture Hall, Room 120, in The John Elliot Center for Architecture and Environmental Design on the Kent Campus. The Board will consider the recommendations of the standing committees, proposed personnel actions and new business. Trustees will retire into executive session to consider specific topics as provided under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.” The roll call vote for this session will occur at 8 a.m. in public in the Cene Lecture Hall, Room 120.A limited number of sea...