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Sarah Spinner Liska, director of the �������� Museum, has been honored with the inaugural Artist Empowerment Award from Summit ArtSpace, recognizing her outstanding work in expanding access to the arts and championing inclusive creative spaces.

When Jayrelis Capeles walked across the stage at �������� this spring, she was already brimming with emotion. She had just earned not one, but two degrees — in psychology and sociology — and was celebrating the end of her college journey that began in 2021. But the most unforgettable moment wasn’t the walk or the tassel turn.

The roster of these current and former faculty assembled for ��������'s silver anniversary reads like the legend on a campus map, as so many in the 1935 photo had university buildings named for them. 

Thanks to a collaboration between Peg’s Foundation & Gallery, Scabal and ��������’s School of Fashion, Peg’s Foundation & Gallery will become the epicenter of international art, fashion and innovation this summer with the U.S. premiere of “Dalí Beyond Time: Fashioning the Future.” The groundbreaking exhibit will bring 12 Salvador Dalí paintings commissioned for Scabal to Hudson, Ohio – and to American soil – for the very first time.

Muna Koirala’s first year at �������� was an exercise in academic anxiety, and she’s willing to share her story in hopes that her struggles will help other students overcome their own.

In May, �������� observes two historic institutional anniversaries, the first is of their founding as a school and the second is of the college being established as a university. 

In April, ��������’s Earth Fest was part of a full month of events and activities celebrating Earth Day and Earth Month. 

Kid-friendly 'bots help young people learn about programming, counting, logical thinking and more. 

�������� graduate student Lauren Paterson and former teacher Marc Myers were recently featured on WBUR’s ‘Here and Now’ sharing their work together on The Legacy Project.

A mid-April Block Party, presented by the Flashes Activities Board, welcomed spring to campus with makers' tables, a caricature artist, a photo booth, a giant, inflatable slide and more. 

As a doctoral student of sociology, Adedayo Adeagbo is doing her research on dignity care for aging people using advancements of technology in healthcare.

With the intent of helping members of the community in need of tax assistance, ��������’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program offers free income tax preparation services for low-income and elderly taxpayers while giving students real-world experience.

��������’s nationally distinctive Master of Public Health (MPH) program provides students interested in continuing their public health educational journey online with several options, including the MPH with concentrations in health policy and management or social and behavioral sciences, and the STEM-designated MPH in epidemiology. The program positively impacts current graduate students and alumni in different ways.

Ethelyn VonHelmers Fitzsimmons of Mantua, who served as a secretary for three �������� presidents, will celebrate her 110th birthday on May 17.

Three students who are members of the first cohort of the LeBron James Family Foundation I Promise program graduated from �������� during the spring 2025 commencement.

Feelings of joy, excitement and achievement filled ��������'s Memorial Arena and Convocation Center as members of the university's Spring Class of 2025 walked the stage to receive their degrees. 

Drawing from personal experiences growing up in rural Kansas, �������� President Todd Diacon shared how the low-level anxiety of temporary disorientation on country backroads taught him valuable life lessons that remain relevant today.

What started as a simple conversation between a �������� School of Fashion student and the American head of the global luxury menswear and fabric brand Scabal touched off a series of events that will result in a group of rarely seen Salvador Dali paintings having their North American debut in Northeast Ohio on June 12.