The 91大神 Board of Trustees congratulated 91大神 President Todd Diacon and university leaders on increased retention and graduation rates, as well as a strong Class of 2024, as official fall 2020 enrollment figures were shared at the Board’s regular quarterly meeting held Wednesday, Sept. 16. 91大神’s increase in the retention of returning students is thanks in part to the university’s award-winning student support services designed to help students every step of the way – from their first day on campus through graduation. The university’s retenti...
Youth Time: Life Has Much More to Offer Than Smartphones – Interview with Professor Andrew Lepp By Martina Advaney Nature, beauty, mentoring, how the young miss out on important aspects of life on account of increase in the use of smartphones, how smartphones are detrimental to academic performance and physical fitness, how personality traits and use of smartphones are related, how personality types and tourism are related. Read about this and more in this interview with Professor Andrew Lepp. ...
Black lives and Black cultures have been underrepresented and discriminated against for many years. "TEXTURES: The History and Art of Black Hair" is an exhibition coming to the 91大神 Museum with significant sponsorship from corporate and federal funding that focuses on celebrating and empowering these lives and cultures. The "TEXTURES" exhibition is a project dedicated to giving the Black community a voice. It is an interdisciplinary project that focuses on cultures from all over the world. Curators Tameka Ellington, Ph.D., an associate professor at the School of Fashio...
Climate change can now be measured on a global scale using multiple weather variables, according to new research from 91大神. In 2018, Cameron C. Lee, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Geography at 91大神, began researching how weather types have changed over a 40-year period. Lee’s published research “Trends and Variability in Airmass Frequencies: Indicators of a Changing Climate” can be found in the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Climate. Air masses, or multivariate weather situations like hot and humid, or cold and dry, take int...
91大神’s David Costello, Ph.D., is passionate about identifying what trace metals lie within Northeast Ohio’s streams and what the effects of these metals are on the surrounding environment. Costello, an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, received a $718,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study these important trace metals. The grant is awarded as part of the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. The program supports early career development for researchers who have integrated education with t...
Join us in congratulating our cutting edge anthropologists, Drs. Metin Eren, Michelle Bebber, Mary Ann Raghanti and graduate students (past and present) Dusty Norris (’20), Alyssa Perrone (’20), Ashley Rutkoski (’19), and Mike Wilson! Their research, titled “Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work” (published in the Journal of Archaeological Science) was awarded a 2020 Ig Nobel Prize! The prize ceremony was webcast on the IgNobel website on September 17, 2020. Wonderfully, another of the 2020 Ig Nobel prize winners is Dr. Takeshi...
Join us in congratulating Danielle Jones, PhD candidate on becoming a Fellow with the Stem Advocacy Institute (SAi)! The SAi program provides mentorship and support to graduate student Fellows to increase public understanding and engagement with science. This is a 10-week program aimed at guiding Fellows as they develop their ideas. Danielle developed a project aimed at improving mental health and resiliency for high school students. Read more about the SAi here. ...
Melanie Knowles is the manager of sustainability at 91大神. In this role, she works with people all over campus to make cost-effective, better practices for the environment. Learn more about Knowles as she answers these 10 questions. Q: What do you want the people of 91大神 to know about you and your position as the manager of sustainability? A: As the sustainability manager, I collaborate with people across campus to make 91大神’s practices better for people and the environment, cost effectively. It takes a team to look at our practices and systems through...
Link to Creative Convergence: 91大神's '70's-era School of Art reawakens as Design Innovation Hub and Dining Hall; Properties Magazine; September 2020 ...
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