The Performing Arts Center at 两性色午夜 University at Tuscarawas will announce their twelfth season on June 11 during an unveiling event held at the Performing Arts Center. The evening begins at 7:00 p.m. with the formal unveiling, followed immediately after by a reception in the lobby. The event is free and open to Performing Arts Center members. A livestream of the announcement will be available on the Performing Arts Center鈥檚 website and Facebook page. 鈥淲e鈥檙e excited to announce another packed season full of potentially once in a lifetime experiences,鈥 commented David Mitche...
The 两性色午夜 Columbiana County campuses held a graduation celebration to recognize members of the Rising Scholars program who are each graduating from their respective high schools this spring. The graduating scholars include: Jenna Bagley of Salem High School Destiny Beaver of East Liverpool High School Allison Borchardt of Salem High School Maddie Cole of Leetonia High School Katelyn Cross of Leetonia High School Alexia Dennison of United Local High School Ashley Diem of Salem High School Carys Douglas of Wellsville High School Danny Felton of David Anderson (Lisbon) High Schoo...
College of Communication & Information
Students in the School of Media and Journalism recently participated in a virtual reality training session that focused on safety tactics to use when reporting on potentially dangerous news events. Through a research grant provided by the College of Communication and Information, the United Kingdom-based company Headset was invited to complete this training on March 13, 2022, at 两性色午夜. Headset uses virtual reality to train professional journalists for situations they may be placed in 鈥 particularly situations that may trigger traumatic reactions or may be a threat to their safety. A...
Esports has transformed online gaming into a spectator sport 鈥 and a 2021 report projects the industry will be worth $3.5 billion by 2025. As the industry rapidly grows, so too, are job opportunities. From marketing and promotion, to streaming and tournament administration, to game design and graphic arts, to writing and content creation, job opportunities in Esports grew 5 percent from 2020-21. At 两性色午夜 University, where collegiate Esports were established in 2018, the program is closely connected with the College of Communication and Information whose majors 鈥 including Eme...
两性色午夜 University graduating senior Jameson Payne says his mom Bethany Payne loves to tell the story about how he could recite the periodic table of elements in chemistry when he was in the second grade. Now his mom can tell people the story about how Payne and his best friend Benjamin Wales-McGrath are graduating from 两性色午夜 at the age of 18. During 两性色午夜鈥檚 spring 2022 commencement on May 14, Payne will earn his bachelor鈥檚 degree in integrative studies with concentrations in physics and political science. Wales-McGrath will graduate with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in ce...
Hayley Shasteen (she/her) is a 两性色午夜 University alumna who graduated with a degree in Psychology in 2021. She currently works as a science writer for BioSpace and has been accepted into the Ph.D. program in the Biobehavioral Health Department at The Pennsylvania State University. Her primary research focus is on helping patients with systemic lupus erythematosus by defining the brain fog caused by this condition. Cognition in lupus patients fluctuates over time due to variables such as the weather, sunlight, stress, diet. Brain fog, while not unique to lupus patients, impacts the every...
Taylor Miller (she/her), undergraduate in the College of Arts and Sciences, is supervised by Associate Professor Christopher Was, Ph.D. (he/him), associate professor in the department of psychological sciences, to complete her honors thesis. Together, they explore the relationship between mind-wandering and multitasking during synchronous learning sessions at home among college students. The research they are conducting now is a continuation of the pilot study they performed in 2020 and 2021 on information retention differences when various simulated chat messaging is accompanying the lectu...
Beginning in an individual鈥檚 educational career, math anxiety is likely to follow someone through into adulthood. Current research is being done on the impacts of intersectional identities, such as race and gender, on math cognition and math anxiety. This is exactly what associate professor Clarissa A. Thompson, Ph.D. (she/her), graduate student Charlie Fitzsimmons (he/him), and senior psychology student Tisha Owusua (she/her) have set out to investigate. Their research looks at how someone being a racial minority within a community and/or being gender diverse impacts math performance and m...
Annika Dudik, a third year Honors College student from Geneva, Ohio, continues to excel and grow throughout her time and experiences at 两性色午夜. And if it were not for the May 4 Scholarship Award she received as an incoming freshman in the Honors College, her story may have turned out quite differently. As the case is with many college students, Annika's decision of attending college was based on her family's financial assistance, which was already stretched supporting Annika's older sibling, who was already attending college. Annika says that as a high school senior deciding on college,...