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Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ graduate Pacifique Niyonzima, who as a child survived the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, is now back living in Rwanda leading Kent State’s outreach efforts there.

A group of Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ students departed Saturday, July 1, for Kigali, Rwanda, where they will take part in the three-week Kigali Summer Institute.

Jeffrey Hartmann, Ph.D., principal of Stow-Munroe Falls High School, said he was interested in attending the conference to learn skills to deal with his school district’s changing landscape. 

Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ is building on the legacy of May 4, 1970, and the mission of its School of Peace and Conflict Studies, when it joins forces with the University of Rwanda in July to help advance peace education across the globe. 

For Brazilian student Rafael Bahls, being involved in the Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ American Academy in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, has expanded his worldview in a multitude of ways.

Acclaimed television producer and writer Don Reo is coming to Â鶹¾«Ñ¡Florence as a guest speaker and to and receive a lifetime achievement award. 

What first began in 1972 with a small group of Â鶹¾«Ñ¡architecture students and faculty traveling to Florence, Italy, for a few weeks has blossomed into one of the most prestigious education-abroad programs in the country.

A group of educators from Brazil spent two weeks at Â鶹¾«Ñ¡participating in workshops and field trips to area schools. 

A literature professor from Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea, is wrapping up a year as a visiting scholar at Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ with hopes of creating an exchange program between the two schools based on their historic campus tragedies. 

Before he leaves the Kent Campus at the end of June, Yeonmin Kim, Ph.D., ’13, hopes to have plans in place for a continued exchange of students between the two universities, to further the understanding and legacies of May 4, 1970, at Â鶹¾«Ñ¡and May 18, 1980, at Chonnam.

Kent State's Annual Fashion Show included several collections for children.