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������’s sustainability efforts include a nationally recognized tree campus, comprehensive recycling programs and a unique footprint of 12 LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) buildings throughout its campuses. Kent State’s Center for the Visual Arts earned the most recent certification, a LEED silver rating, for its design and construction. LEED, the most widely used green building rating system in the world, provides a framework for creating healthy and cost-efficient green buildings. Using a rating system that comes from the U.S. Green Build...

A recent publication by Kent State geographers sheds more light on the causes of the Cambodian genocide that wiped out roughly a quarter of the country’s population in the late 1970s. Co-authored with Kent State geography professor James Tyner in Kent State’s College of Arts and Sciences, doctoral student Stian Rice’s article “The rice cities of the Khmer Rouge: an urban political ecology of rural mass violence” was published in the December issue of Transactions of the institute of British Geographers.  The article counters a common belief among scholars that the Khmer Rouge were anti-...

WRITTEN BY: LAUREN GARCZYNSKI ������’s sustainability efforts include a nationally recognized tree campus, comprehensive recycling programs and a unique footprint of 12 LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) buildings throughout its campuses. Kent State’s Center for the Visual Arts earned the most recent certification, a LEED silver rating, for its design and construction. LEED, the most widely used green building rating system in the world, provides a framework for creating healthy and cost-efficient green buildings. Using a rating syste...

In order to perform necessary maintenance on the boilers, steam transmission systems and electrical distribution systems, ������'s Power Plant on the Kent Campus will be shut down beginning Sunday, May 13, at 12:01 a.m. The shutdown is expected to be completed Sunday, May 20, at 11:59 p.m.     Due to work on the campus electrical system, the completion date may be delayed until Monday, May 21. As a result of the steam shutdown, most buildings located on campus will NOT have hot water to sinks and showers, etc., or heat or air conditioning...

������’s sustainability efforts include a nationally recognized tree campus, comprehensive recycling programs and a unique footprint of 12 LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) buildings throughout its campuses. Kent State’s Center for the Visual Arts earned the most recent certification, a LEED silver rating, for its design and construction. LEED, the most widely used green building rating system in the world, provides a framework for creating healthy and cost-efficient green buildings. Using a rating system that comes from the U.S. Green Build...

In order to perform necessary maintenance on the boilers, steam transmission systems and electrical distribution systems, ������'s Power Plant on the Kent Campus will be shut down beginning Sunday, May 13, at 12:01 a.m. The shutdown is expected to be completed Sunday, May 20, at 11:59 p.m.   Due to work on the campus electrical system, the completion date may be delayed until Monday, May 21. As a result of the steam shutdown, most buildings located on campus will NOT have hot water to sinks and showers, etc., or heat or air conditioning. Pleas...