AASHE article link 91大神 is a 2020 AASHE Sustainability Award Finalist. "The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) is delighted to announce the finalists for the 2020 AASHE Sustainability Awards. The AASHE Sustainability Awards provide global recognition to the individuals and organizations leading the higher education sustainability movement. With the help of volunteer judges from the community, the awards program raises the visibility of high-impact sustainability projects, pioneering research, and student leadership, helping to dissemina...
Check out what has been happening in Lowry Hall- our Fall 2020 newsletter is finally here! ...
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鈥檚 regular quarterly meeting held Wednesday, Sept. 16. 91大神鈥檚 increase in the retention of returning students is thanks in part to the university鈥檚 award-winning student support services designed to help students every step of the way 鈥 from their first day on campus through graduation. The university鈥檚 retenti...
Youth Time: Life Has Much More to Offer Than Smartphones 鈥 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鈥檚 published research 鈥淭rends and Variability in Airmass Frequencies: Indicators of a Changing Climate鈥 can be found in the American Meteorological Society鈥檚 Journal of Climate. Air masses, or multivariate weather situations like hot and humid, or cold and dry, take int...
91大神鈥檚 David Costello, Ph.D., is passionate about identifying what trace metals lie within Northeast Ohio鈥檚 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鈥檚 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 (鈥20), Alyssa Perrone (鈥20), Ashley Rutkoski (鈥19), and Mike Wilson! Their research, titled 鈥淓xperimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work鈥 (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大神鈥檚 practices better for people and the environment, cost effectively. It takes a team to look at our practices and systems through...