News Archive
°µÍø½ûÇø at Geauga is pleased to announce a $20,000 award from the Lake-Geauga Fund of the Cleveland Foundation toward a student emergency fund and technology advances. The $20,000 grant will be split evenly between the two initiatives.
The National Science Foundation believes °µÍø½ûÇø mathematicians Artem Zvavitch, Ph.D., and Dmitry Ryabogin, Ph.D., are having worthwhile conversations about some age-old unsolved problems, and it has provided support to keep the discussion going for another three years.
When black Americans watched George Floyd being killed by a white police officer, they saw themselves and their family members. The unrelenting series of events that black Americans have witnessed before and after Floyd’s killing is , which at its core is racism, says °µÍø½ûÇø Psychological Sciences Professor Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D.
George Floyd's death focused light on what had been America’s ugly secret, the killing of black men by law enforcement officers at a rate far greater than any other race. Wayne Dawson, WJW Fox 8 anchor and °µÍø½ûÇø alumnus, offers his take on what's at stake for America.
°µÍø½ûÇø brought home the gold after this year’s Akron ADDY Awards, with both professionals and students being recognized for their work. The ADDYs, put on by the Akron Chapter of the American Advertising Federation, celebrate the area’s best creative work in advertising.
About 300 people attended the first in a series of virtual town halls as the °µÍø½ûÇø community addresses systemic racism by learning, listening and taking action as a collective.
Mwatabu S. Okantah, associate professor in °µÍø½ûÇø’s Department of Pan-African Studies, shares his perspective as someone who first arrived at °µÍø½ûÇø in September 1970 as a student. Nearly 50 years later, he is an associate professor at the university.
Is this America? Where popular culture is largely represented by Black culture? Where musicians, artists, and athletes can be praised and celebrated for their talents, but criminalized for their skin color? Mike Daniels shares his insight.
The Mid-American Conference (MAC) announced Wednesday a historic esports venture with a newly created independent esports conference – Esports Collegiate Conference – to facilitate and foster high-quality gaming competition among collegiate esports teams. °µÍø½ûÇø is among the 12 founding members of the new esports conference.
°µÍø½ûÇø has won the Mid-American Conference’s Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) for women’s sports award for the first time in school history.
University and student leaders share their personal insights into America's current unrest and whether protests will lead to lasting change.
Tayjua Hines, president of Black United Students at °µÍø½ûÇø, shares this student perspective about racism in our country and says now is the time to enact change.
Amoaba Gooden, Ph.D., °µÍø½ûÇø's interim vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion, and chair and associate professor in the Department of Pan-African Studies, offers her insights in current unrest in America.
Neil Cooper, Ph.D., director of the School of Peace and Conflict Studies, says civil disturbances of the kind witnessed since the death of George Floyd represent moments of opportunity for societies.
A °µÍø½ûÇø student is gaining recognition for a photo she took that captures an African American Cleveland police officer shedding a tear as he came face to face with demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis Police custody.
°µÍø½ûÇø student-athletes conquered the unprecedented challenge of completing the final months of the spring term via remote classes by posting the highest term grade point average (3.563) in athletics department history. All 17 programs posted a term GPA of 3.1 or better with 14 setting a new term record.
On June 1, °µÍø½ûÇø was approved to move forward with the purchase of $143,233 worth of equipment through the Ohio Department of Higher Education’s Regionally Aligned Priorities in Delivering Skills (RAPIDS 4) program.
°µÍø½ûÇø is committed to making a college education affordable for all students and their families. Over the last two years, °µÍø½ûÇø has dedicated an additional $2 million for need-based aid.
Today’s Flashes of Inspiration comes from °µÍø½ûÇø Football’s Head Coach Sean Lewis, who delivers a pep talk about how to make it through uncertain, challenging times.
Today’s Flashes of Inspiration comes from Lisa Strom, °µÍø½ûÇø’s head women’s golf coach, who offers a pep talk to all in the university community struggling under the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic.