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Strength, tenacity, courage and unrelenting persistence.   March is Women’s History Month, and all across our country, we are honoring women who have shaped America’s history by working together and showing their strength, tenacity and courage to not only overcome great obstacles, but also achieve at the highest level.    In Northeast Ohio, we have many women to recognize and thank, including Linda Spurlock, PhD., assistant professor of anthropology at ����ɫ��ҹ University who also serves as a forensic facial reconstruction artist for several medical examiner and coroner’...

M.L. Schultze named Reporter of the Year WKSU staff was honored with 11 awards from the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors (OAPME) in a ceremony held March 24 in Columbus, Ohio. Top honors went to WKSU for General Excellence – Radio, the fourth consecutive year the newsroom earned the acknowledgement. The OAPME Awards reflect standout work created in 2017. WKSU Reporter/Digital Editor M.L. Schultze came away the big winner of the OAPME Awards event with four first-place awards – more than any other broadcast journalist in the 2017 contest – including Best Reporter. Ms. Schultze was hono...

Each year, hundreds of ����ɫ��ҹ University Golden Flashes gather across the globe to make a difference in their communities. ����ɫ��ҹ alumni and friends have the opportunity to participate in the 10th annual Alumni Day of Service on Saturday, April 21. Sponsored by the ����ɫ��ҹ Alumni Association, Alumni Day of Service provides opportunities for ����ɫ��ҹ alumni, friends and family to give back by participating in local volunteer projects while strengthening ties with fellow members of the ����ɫ��ҹ community. “I love the opportunity to give back to the community and work with fe...

Students will find no better time to consider studying abroad than “now.” Yet most students find the prospect of studying abroad a daunting challenge fraught with many uncertainties. Amber Cruxton, the Associate Director of Education Abroad within the university’s Office of Global Education, advises students otherwise. “For those students who want to study abroad but are anxious about being on their own,” she explains, “I direct them towards our Florence Center. It helps if students look at it like just another ����ɫ��ҹ regional campus. But one that is located in Florence, Italy. You’ll be t...

A series of paintings by local artist Peggy Albert Mangano will be featured in an exhibit at the ����ɫ��ҹ East Liverpool Art Gallery, located in the Mary Patterson Building. Titled “Flowers by Peggy,” the show opens with a reception on Thursday, April 12, beginning at 5:30 p.m. A highlight of the reception will be the unveiling of a painting that she is donating to the permanent art collection at ����ɫ��ҹ East Liverpool. The featured work is called “Wild Irish Rose.”  Mangano was born and raised in Nebraska and graduated high school in Seattle, Wash.  She was trained as an educ...

March 24: Dr. Anne Jefferson, an assistant professor in the Geology Department at ����ɫ��ҹ, and her team have been asked by the National Parks Service to investigate why trees won’t grow on National Park land in NE Ohio which are on top of old mining sites.  Forest surrounds these places, but new plantings are not succeeding.  The Parks Service gave ����ɫ��ҹ a chance to do long term research at these sites which will help not just locally, but nationally and beyond. Read Road salt choking ecosystems and contaminating water Visit Dr. Anne Jefferson's Watershed...

Daniel Grossman, Ph.D., an award-winning journalist and radio/web producer with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, visited ����ɫ��ҹ University recently to share his professional experiences with students, faculty and community members. Grossman was one of three panelists who spoke at the ����ɫ��ҹ School of Communication Studies (COMM) Spring 2018 Global Issues Forum titled, “Advancing Understanding of Climate Change: The Role of Science and Global Communication.” With a Ph.D. in political science and a Bachelor of Science in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (...

Entrepreneurship takes many forms. It can take advantage of new technology or a new way of using old technology. In some cases, it combines new and old to create something entirely new. In Javon Miller’s case, his business was created by combining a new hobby with a tool that humans have used for centuries.   “Bovazi is a handcrafted pen and pencil company that I started in January 2017 as a senior in high school,” says Mr. Miller, a freshman psychology major. “I hand carve and assemble luxury pens from different materials.”   Made from wood and acrylic, Bovazi pens and pencils co...

A recent publication by ����ɫ��ҹ geographers sheds more light on the causes of the Cambodian genocide that wiped out roughly a quarter of the country’s population in the late 1970s. Co-authored with ����ɫ��ҹ geography professor James Tyner in ����ɫ��ҹ’s College of Arts and Sciences, doctoral student Stian Rice’s article “The rice cities of the Khmer Rouge: an urban political ecology of rural mass violence” was published in the December issue of Transactions of the institute of British Geographers.  The article counters a common belief among scholars that the Khmer Rouge were anti-...

WRITTEN BY: LAUREN GARCZYNSKI ����ɫ��ҹ University’s sustainability efforts include a nationally recognized tree campus, comprehensive recycling programs and a unique footprint of 12 LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) buildings throughout its campuses. ����ɫ��ҹ’s Center for the Visual Arts earned the most recent certification, a LEED silver rating, for its design and construction. LEED, the most widely used green building rating system in the world, provides a framework for creating healthy and cost-efficient green buildings. Using a rating syste...