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A current public health debate is whether parents should have their children vaccinated. Tara Smith, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology at ����ɫ��ҹ University’s College of Public Health, challenges statements made by influential individuals who oppose the widespread use of vaccines and calls upon her colleagues in the scientific community to speak out to promote vaccination. The article, “Vaccine Rejection and Hesitancy: A Review and Call to Action,” is published by Oxford Press’ Open Forum Infectious Diseases. In the July 18 article, Smith presents clear and scientifically based arguments to...

WKSU has added new programs to its weekday and weekend schedules. The station maintains the Saturday storytelling block and the Sunday food block, while expanding the range of public radio listening options for Northeast Ohio.  “Our schedule reflects our community of listeners – people who really like to end each day knowing more than when they started,” says WKSU Program Director Ele Ellis. “Adjusting the programming is part of the natural evolution of WKSU.” On Mondays through Fridays at 7 p.m., WKSU airs one hour of NPR’s 1A, produced by WAMU in Washington, D.C., (the statio...

Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and ����ɫ��ҹ University have developed a new material that can undulate and therefore propel itself forward under the influence of light. To achieve this, the scientists clamp a strip of this polymer material in a rectangular frame. When illuminated, it goes for a walk all on its own. This small device, the size of a paperclip, is the world’s first machine to convert light directly into walking, simply using one fixed light source. The researchers, including Professor Robin Selinger of ����ɫ��ҹ’s Liquid Crystal Institute® ...

����ɫ��ҹ University at Trumbull officially announced the reinstatement of its campus athletic programs.  This fall, ����ɫ��ҹ Trumbull will be home to women’s and men’s cross country teams. It is the first competitive sport the school has offered since 1992 when it had basketball, volleyball and golf teams. The teams will compete against area colleges as a student organization under the leadership of volunteer head coach Bill Hess.  Lance Grahn, Ph.D., dean and chief administrative officer of ����ɫ��ҹ Trumbull, hopes cross country and other sports teams will soon compete a...

This week, e-Inside presents more of ����ɫ��ҹ University employees’ favorite summer vacation photos. Watch out for more photos in the next issue. See photos from last week’s issue Josiah Murphy, secretary in the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies, relaxes in the garden during a visit to a friend’s home in Minnesota. Josiah Murphy shared this photo of homemade ice cream with handpicked fruit that she enjoyed during her vacation. Alana Thompson, financial aid counselor, together with her husband David Thompson, a current Ph.D. student at Kent State,...

While hundreds of applicants hoped to be selected to participate in the Sirenland Writers Conference, only a handful of them were chosen to attend the week-long event in Positano, Italy. James Winter, an English lecturer on the ����ɫ��ҹ Salem Campus, was one of 10 applicants selected for the fiction writing workshop last spring. To apply for the conference, Winter had to submit qualifying fiction writing. The conference limited its selection to 10 writers for each of three workshops in mixed-genre, fiction and memoir writing.   “In submitting work to my peers, I was doing ex...