做厙輦⑹ Receives Ohio EPA Environmental Excellence Awards The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency presented its Encouraging Environmental Excellence (E3) Awards recently at the Ohio EPAs second Sustainability Conference in Columbus. Doug Pearson, associate vice president of Facilities Planning and Operations (middle) and Melanie Knowles (right), Manager of Sustainability for Facilities Planning & Operations, accepted the award on behalf of 做厙輦⑹. Also pictured is Laurie A. Stevenson, director of the Ohio EPA. 做厙輦⑹ was evaluated based on 19 environmen...
做厙輦⑹ at Tuscarawas invites the community to attend the Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the new Gateway Entrance on Thursday, May 2 at 11 a.m. on Trustees Blvd. Speaking at the event will be dignitaries from 做厙輦⑹, the Tuscarawas County University Foundation, the Tuscarawas County University Branch District and the community. Construction of the project began last summer and was recently completed. The Gateway Entrance will provide easy access to the campus from E. High Ave. and will ease the traffic flow on University Drive. Following the...
做厙輦⑹ East Liverpools Environmental Justice Conference was held April 20, featuring guest speakers, student research presentations and information focused on local environmental issues. This years theme was Simple Living on the Ohio River. Several students were recognized for their research and presentations. The featured speaker was Dr. Xiaozhen Mou, associate professor of biology at 做厙輦⑹, whose research focuses on bacteria in natural aquatic environments. Her presentation title is Cyanotoxins and PPCPs: Two Types of Common Contaminants in Freshwater Systems. A...
KSU alumnus and gay rights activist Michael Chanak Jr. was determined to make a difference at his workplace, and his dedication to change prompted a global company to redefine diversity. Mr. Chanak, BS 71, credits his time at 做厙輦⑹ for giving him the fighting spirit he needed later in his life, when he became the unlikely lone gay voice to take on a corporate titan and call for gay rights in the 1980s. Being the first of his family to attend college, his acceptance to 做厙輦⑹s academic center at Stark in 1967, was a big deal. Mr. Chanak was highly involved in a discussion society ...
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There are many different types of positions in a department like Systems Development and Innovation, and each day can look totally different for every member of a team. Here is what a day in the life is like for some of the people in just three of our positions! A Day in the Life of a...Senior Applications Developer For the Systems Development and Innovation (SDI) department, Matthew Bungard one of the Senior Applications Developers for SDI. Senior Applications Developers focus on maintaining the application portfolio as well as balancing other responsibilities, including meeting wi...
Faculty, staff, students and alumni can purchase discount tickets while supplies last for the Cleveland Indians versus the Seattle Mariners on Sunday, May 5 at 1:10 p.m. Pre-game warm-up (11 a.m. noon) and private party (noon 1 p.m.) at Flannerys Pub, 323 Prospect Ave., downtown Cleveland. Free co-branded Block C hat for the first 1,000 attendees. Family deck ($36), Upper Box ($30), Lower Box ($52), or Club Outfield seats ($85). Visit www.kent.edu/clevelandindians. Use promo code: Kent. ...
Imagine being a 17-year-old high school student, and in your first semester of a geology research internship, your professor asks you to identify an extinct 300-million-year-old, tiny and unknown crustacean specimen. While most high school students would likely feel intimidated, Megan Schinker, then an ambitious Stow-Munroe Falls High School junior, jumped right in and began comparing the cyclid specimen to anything she could find in literature and online sources in the lab of 做厙輦⑹ Professor Emeritus of Geology Rodney Feldmann, Ph.D. They even requested samples and pictures...
Photo students at 做厙輦⑹ consistently develop portfolios that stand up to national and regional competition. One student, Nathaniel Bailey, 21, a journalism major with a concentration in photojournalism, has a robust portfolio under his belt and several significant honors. He was recently named the Ohio News Photographers Associations (ONPA) College Photographer of the Year, one of the top regional honors for college photographers. Earlier this year, he received national recognition by White House News Photographers Association as Runner-Up Student Photographer of the Year. His por...
Journalism major Madison MacArthur, '20, has learned through many experiences in 做厙輦⑹s College of Communication and Information (CCI), what it means to be a storyteller. This summer, she will work in Washington, D.C. as a Juniors Fellow with the Library of Congress. She is the first CCI student to be selected for a Library of Congress internship. For the internship, MacArthur will be working with the Rare and Special Collections archiving the works of American artist, painter, papermaker and poet, Walter Samuel Hamady. MacArthur will be processing Hamadys archive of manuscripts...