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“It feels amazing to be acknowledged for what is truly a passion of mine and a profession that I put my whole heart into.” - Dr. Kay Amey ����ֱ�� State University at Ashtabula assistant professor Katherine (Kay) Springer Amey, Ph.D., received quite the surprise in her classroom on Wednesday, Oct. 2, when several of her colleagues poured into the room with balloons, cupcakes and noisemakers.  Also joining them was Melissa Dyer, part of the University Teaching Council, who was there to announce Amey as one of three recipients this year across the ����ֱ�� State system to receive the Outstanding...

Dear Members of the ����ֱ�� State University Community, I am writing today to provide an update on the field hockey incident that occurred on our campus last month. The Office of Compliance, Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action at ����ֱ�� State has completed an internal investigation into the Sept. 7 decision to stop the Temple University-University of Maine field hockey match from moving into double overtime. View the report here. First and foremost, we are grateful that the investigation found no Title IX violations or gender-related bias. It was noted that a similar scheduling situation...

Science is complex, and it’s difficult to discuss it with children under the best circumstances; it’s even more difficult when they are hungry.   Two ����ֱ�� State University researchers may have cooked up a way to solve both of those problems, and the National Science Foundation just awarded them a three-year, $1.3 million grant to determine if their recipe works.   Bradley Morris, Ph.D., associate professor of educational psychology in the College of Education, Health and Human Services, and John Dunlosky, Ph.D., professor of psychological sciences in the College of Art...

Golden Flashes, we all have different reasons why we love ����ֱ�� State. We wanted to hear about some of the things you love most about ����ֱ�� State, so we created a fun Instagram story in August. We shared polls on our Instagram story and you chose some of your favorite things about the university. Here are the results!   Favorite ����ֱ�� State furry friend?   Black Squirrel or Flash​​​       Favorite sporting complex to catch a game?  Dix Stadium or MAC Center                 ​​​​​​​ Favorite also-off-...

Annie (Phuong) Tran is living her dream at ����ֱ�� State University at Tuscarawas. An engineering technology student, Annie and her mother, Nhung Quan, are from Vietnam and have been in the states for the past five years. While completing an internship with the ����ֱ�� State Tuscarawas Makerspace in the Academic Learning Commons for her associate degree in computer science at Columbus State last year, Tran soon realized that she had found a new home and transferred to the Tuscarawas Campus.   “We are so excited to have Annie transfer to the Tuscarawas Campus,” said Cherie Bronkar, ����ֱ�� St...

While the daily news is full of tumultuous conversations about Russia and China, ����ֱ�� State University has been helping some area high school students learn to converse in Russian and Chinese to facilitate greater global understanding and a less contentious tomorrow. ����ֱ�� State’s Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences received federal funding for the 12th consecutive year to host the fully immersive STARTALK Summer Foreign Language Academy this past summer. Twenty students from Northeast Ohio learned Russian or Chinese language a...

Love, loss and hope. These are three critical elements Maria Jacobs brings – along with her considerable professional experience – to the ����ֱ�� State University community. Jacobs is a part-time instructor in the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music and a nationally known jazz singer. “Every day that I teach, I learn a tremendous amount,” Jacobs said. “Students come in with ideas and goals for not only their voices, but also knowledge of the ‘Great American Songbook’ and music theory. It brings me immeasurable joy to see their faces light up when they love a song I introduce for the first time.” Ja...