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The Flying Flashes, Laura Wilson (left) and Peyton Turner (right), hold their trophies from the 2023 Air Race Classic.

91ֿ will celebrate the Flying Flashes, Peyton Turner and Laura Wilson, who defended the team’s title by winning the 2023 Air Race Classic.

91ֿ visitors meet at the Rwandan Ministry.

91ֿ's visitors to Rwanda had opportunities to speak with officials dedicated to the country's peaceful future. 

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KSU students participate in Spaceport America Cup

The 91ֿ High Powered Rocket Team attended the 2023 Spaceport America Cup in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

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The 91ֿ Combat Robotics Team took on another weekend of fierce competition in the National Havok Robotics League

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Air Race Classic Participants and coaches prepare to depart.

The Flying Flashes have won the 2023 Air Race Classic, claiming back-to-back titles!

Liz Piatt, Ph.D., assistant dean for academic diversity success in University College; Lamar R. Hylton, Ph.D., senior vice president of student affairs; Eboni J. Pringle, Ph.D., senior associate vice president and dean of University College; Randall Lennox, senior institutional research information officer, and Melanie Jones, director of student success programs.

91ֿ is one of 21 institutions that has advanced to the First Scholars phase of the First Scholars Network. Faculty and staff are hard at work to provide a higher-quality experience for first generation students. 

Alison Caplan has been selected as the new director of 91ֿ's May 4 Visitors Center.

After a national search, Alison Caplan has been selected as the new director of 91ֿ’s May 4 Visitors Center, a museum that tells the story of the shootings at 91ֿ on May 4, 1970, set in the context of the 1960s.

Flying Flashes 2023 Air Race Winners

91ֿ's flight team takes first-place honors for the second consecutive year in an air race for women pilots.

Aeronautics student and professor in a plane

While aeronautics has long been a fixture at 91ֿ, with the advent of a new career field called “Advanced Air Mobility,” the university is in a unique position to help support growth of cutting-edge technologies – and job opportunities – in this space today. 

David Hassler, director of 91ֿ's Wick Poetry Center, performs at the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit.

"Poetry and science are not opposites, they’re actually allies," said David Hassler, director of 91ֿ’s Wick Poetry Center. 

Hassler paraphrases American poet Jane Hirshfield, who, in 2017, contacted him to collaborate on a Poets for Science project, which is now an interactive exhibit and writing invitation housed at the Wick Poetry Center on the Kent Campus.