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°µÍø½ûÇø congratulates its newest graduates. Summer 2013 commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus were held Aug. 17 at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). °µÍø½ûÇø conferred 1,593 degrees, including 836 bachelor’s degrees, 455 master’s degrees, 83 doctoral degrees, 198 associate degrees and 21 educational specialist degrees. °µÍø½ûÇø congratulates its newest graduates. Summer 2013 commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus were held Aug. 17 at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center).

Scholar of the Month
Yanhai Du
Assistant Professor of Energy and Industrial Technology
College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology
2013-present

Scholar of the Month
Hai Dinh
Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences
Regional College °µÍø½ûÇø at Trumbull
2004-present

Hai Dinh is an associate professor of mathematical sciences at °µÍø½ûÇø at Trumbull. His research interests include Algebraic Coding Theory and Ring and Module Theory.

°µÍø½ûÇø Libraries held its Stress-Free Zone event on Monday, Dec. 9, and Tuesday, Dec. 10, on the first floor of the University Library. The Stress-Free Zone offered the opportunity for a study break for students and an avenue to reduce stress for faculty and staff members as the fall semester comes to an end.

Pet therapy dogs returned this year to help ease the stress of finals week. There was free popcorn and beverages for all.

The °µÍø½ûÇø Esplanade will be named the Lester A. Lefton Esplanade honoring °µÍø½ûÇø President Lefton. The announcement was made Friday, Oct. 4, by Jane Murphy Timken, chair of the °µÍø½ûÇø Board of Trustees, at a community event held at the new University Esplanade arch near Main and Willow streets in Kent. The event celebrated the solid partnership between °µÍø½ûÇø and the city of Kent and the official opening of the University Esplanade extension that now connects the university to downtown Kent.

Graduate students from °µÍø½ûÇø’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, the combined home of the urban design graduate program and the public service activities of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, won the Excellence in Student Planning Award from the American Planning Association of Ohio (APA-Ohio) on Sept. 27, 2013.

After a nearly yearlong planning process, °µÍø½ûÇø’s College of Nursing and the MetroHealth System have collaborated to now offer clinical experiences aboard Metro Life Flight to °µÍø½ûÇø graduate nursing students in the acute care nurse practitioner concentration. The new clinical experiences started this fall semester.

°µÍø½ûÇø held its annual Veterans Day observance on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 11 a.m. on the Student Green at Risman Plaza. The outdoor program included a flag-raising ceremony conducted by a joint color guard from the Army and Air Force ROTC programs, and remarks from °µÍø½ûÇø President Lester A. Lefton.

°µÍø½ûÇø senior music performance major Yang Zeng has been offered a contract to be part of the first violin section of the Akron Symphony. Zeng, originally from Kunming, Yunnan, China, has been a student at °µÍø½ûÇø’s Hugh A. Glauser School of Music since 2010. He started studying music at age 6.

For the second year in a row, °µÍø½ûÇø’s TV2 has taken top honors in the College Media Association’s (CMA) Pinnacle Awards, earning the 2013 TV Station of the Year award at the CMA National College Media Convention in New Orleans. TV2 is °µÍø½ûÇø’s nationally award-winning, high-definition digital TV station.

The Agenda, TV2’s topical comedy-satire show, also won Best TV Entertainment Program.