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Recent �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� State graduate Brandon Bounds, ’19, is part of a team of top student journalists that earned the 2019 Student Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Digital Reporting. Bounds collaborated on the award-winning project, “Hate in America,” a package of multimedia stories focused on acts of intolerance, racism and hate crimes across the country, as part of the Carnegie-Knight News21 program. News21 is a multi-university, in-depth journalism collaborative based at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� State students have been r...

The Integrated Sciences Building (ISB) is set to receive a collaborative laboratory next fall courtesy of the Brain Health Research Institute. Read the full article ...

Two �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� State professors are identifying the elements of ballroom dance to eventually develop an exercise intervention program that would help manage Parkinson's disease symptoms. Dr. Angela Ridgel, an associate professor of exercise science and physiology, and Joan Meggitt, an associate professor of dance, teamed up for the joint research project, "Optimizing dance interventions for people with Parkinson's disease and healthy older adults," through the university's Brain Health Research Institute, which provided a near $10,000 initial seed grant. See full article   ...

Veronica Cook Euell Receives Communicator Award Veronica Cook Euell, supplier diversity program manager, has received the Neil D. Markee Communicator of the Year Award from the National Association of Educational Procurement (NAEP). Presented at a ceremony held during the association’s 2019 Annual Meeting in Kanas City, Missouri, the award recognizes a member for outstanding performance in representing the purchasing profession through the written or spoken word by teaching, speaking or publishing. Euell has become known at �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� State and throughout the region as an individual who...

On Tuesday, June 11, LaunchNET �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� State was honored with the annual “Excellence in Student Engagement” award from the Deshpande Symposium on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education. There were five categories with honors presented to six institutions, two organizations and three individuals. The awards program is overseen by Raj Melville, executive director of the Deshpande Foundation. The symposium takes place at UMass Lowell and was started by the foundation’s co-founder, technology entrepreneur Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande. “The awardees represent best practices in innovation a...

 Working in cooperation with the Lebanese American University, 20 interior design students – 10 from �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� State and 10 from LAU in Beirut – spent nine days in New York City, the design capital of North America for a workshop.   The workshop investigated New York’s lobbies and thresholds. The lobby operates at the juncture between outside and inside, mediating between the dynamic urban space of the metropolis and the precise, ordered space of the interior. The lobby adjudicates between conflicting speeds and scales, it builds nested layers of privacy and security, it buffers against ...

�þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� Geauga in conjunction with the Cleveland Foundation will host a Common Ground conversation on Sunday, June 30, 2019. The event is at �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� State Geauga, located at 14111 Claridon Troy Road, Burton, OH. The event will open at noon with a light lunch, followed by a presentation and conversation. Registration is free, but an RSVP is required. The discussion topic this year is “Our environment was, our environment is, and our environment will be.” �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� State Geauga will be looking at sustainability and solar power from two angles. The first from the perspective of...

A group of artists, educators and volunteers worked together to produce “We the People,” an outdoor art exhibit at �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� that pays tribute to refugees from around the world who have made Northeast Ohio their home.   The exhibit spanned the Lefton Esplanade throughout the spring showcasing large photographs of individuals who fled their home countries and now live in Northeast Ohio.   Françoise Massardier-Kenney, Ph.D., professor of French translation in the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies and co-director of the Glo...

Twenty-two women from across Ohio will competed in this year’s Miss Ohio Scholarship Program June 15 at the Renaissance Theatre in Mansfield. Among the contestants three were �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� students who hold the titles Miss Oxford, Miss Akron Canton and Miss South Central.   Miss Oxford   Niles native Caitlin Seifert, 19, a fashion merchandising major, possesses a talent in baton twirling. Ms. Seifert’s platform, Unity in the Community: Making Your Community a Better Home through Volunteerism, emphasizes the importance of children of all ages becoming volunteers. ...