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100

This building has a fresh water spring running through the basement.

What is the City Center?

100

This historical event, in which 4 students died, occurred on the Kent Campus and impacts the academic calendar each May.

What is May 4th?

100

On this section of the KSU Salem website, you can find information for tutoring, LibGuides, and the Student Resource Guide just to name a few.

What is the Academic Learning Commons/Libraries?

100

The name of your Learning Management System.

What is Canvas? 

100

This program was created and first offered on the Salem Campus and is now offered on all campus in an online format.

What is the Insurance Studies program?

200

The City Center building is downtown Salem is housed was historically built as this.

What is the former Salem High School (that also served previously as a Junior High School)?
200

The Kent State University system, first began in Kent, Ohio as this type of institution.

What is a Normal School (teacher-training institute)?

200

The Regional Campus Bookstore is housed here.

What is the Stark Campus?

200

A handy card for printing, copying, purchasing food at FlashBistro.

What is your FlashCard?

200

The Salem Campus is the only Kent Campus that offers what major? 

What is Horticulture? Or What is Radiation Therapy? 

300

This multi-million-dollar Health and Sciences Wing opened in September 2011 and features state-of-the-art facilities on the first floor, including dedicated spaces for nursing and radiology instruction, a conference room, bookstore, faculty offices, student lounge and centralized classrooms.

What is Centofanti Hall?

300

The year the Salem Campus opened on S. Lincoln Ave/OH State Route 45.  

What is 1971?

300

Located in Room 164, this door is open during regular campus operating hours for students, staff and faculty who may need a helping hand to select free food and personal hygiene items at times that are convenient to them.

What is the Flash's Food Pantry?

300

Although many still refer to our campus as Kent State Salem, what is the official name of Kent State Salem and Kent State East Liverpool? 

What is Kent State Columbiana County?

300

In 2012-2013, this invertebrate was found living in the pond on campus.

What is a sponge? 

400

An acre is a plot of land that has 4,840 square yards and this campus owns just a few.

What is 98 acres?

400

The Rising Scholars program began on the Salem Campus, but was previously know as this.

What is the Rural Scholars program?

400

This on campus organization is abbreviated as USG.

What is Undergraduate Student Government?

400

This online platform/app provides access to your KSU Advisor.

What is KSU Navigate?

400

Columbiana County, established in 1803, was rich in soil for agricultural purposes, but also rich in mining opportunities. This was most plentiful in Salem.

What is Iron Ore? 

500

Using GPS pins through Google Maps, the exact location of each of these on campus was pinned using the common name to research each scientific name, its purpose, type and a picture with identifying features to create a key for the map.

What are the trees? 
500

This was the mascot of the Salem Campus men's basketball team. 

What is the Cougar? 

500
This is the formal name for the attire you will wear when you attend graduation and officially transition from student to alumnus (graduate of).

What is academic regalia (cap and gown)?

500

The Kent Campus is responsible for the dissemination of this furry creature in 1961, which started with only 10 and now spread across the eastern coast and to the south!

What is the black squirrel?

500

The International Space Station astronauts can thank a 2023 team of Rising Scholars who worked with NASA's LAUNCH program to create this.

What are hygiene kits?