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The ����ֱ�� Creativity Festival announces 2019 artists and performers for September event! The ����ֱ�� Creativity Festival, sponsored by the city of ����ֱ�� and the ����ֱ�� State University College of the Arts, will present the annual outdoor hands-on arts festival on Saturday, Sept. 28, from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on the Lefton Esplanade between ����ֱ�� State’s Rockwell Hall on Lincoln Street and downtown ����ֱ��, near Haymaker Parkway. The event will feature a wide variety of interactive creative activities presented by local and regional artists and art educators. Attendees can enjoy hands-on act...

����ֱ�� State University at Ashtabula Director of Enrollment Management and Student Services Amanda Dolan, Ph.D., will be one of the featured presenters at the 29th annual American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Conference, Nov. 3-6, 2019, in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Dolan will present her research and insights during her “What do 40 years of data tell us about student persistence?” session.  Dr. Dolan recently gave a preview of her topic and shared thoughts about student success, retention and academic integration with the org...

From July 28 to August 2, 2019, forty students from ten different Northeast Ohio colleges and universities convened at ����ֱ�� State to be immersed in an entrepreneurial experience like no other. For the five days and four nights students worked together, with faculty, staff, and regional business leaders, to create innovative solutions that address local industry and community challenges. The event is one of two major programs put on each year by the Entrepreneurship Education Consortium (EEC) and funded through the Burton D. Morgan Foundation. The event was hosted by LaunchNET ����ֱ�� State, with ...

Faculty spotlight on Molly Wang - Exemplifying Excellence According to the ����ֱ�� State Model Zhiqiang Molly Wang, Ph.D., was recently promoted to full professor of chemistry and biochemistry at ����ֱ�� State Geauga and the Regional Academic Center. Last spring semester, she was honored at ����ֱ�� State's 9th Annual Mothers, Mentors and Muses Celebration for her nurturing ‘Mother’ role among students, helping to birth new ideas and to nurture a supportive academic environment. Read more. Janice Lessman-Moss, professor of textiles in ����ֱ�� State University’s School of Art, has been named...

Dr. Mariann Harding, ����ֱ�� State University at Tuscarawas associate professor of nursing technology, has been selected for induction into the Organization for Associate Degree Nursing (OADN) Academy for Associate Degree Nursing. Selected as a Fellow of the Academy in recognition of her outstanding contributions to associate degree nursing education and her commitment to nursing education and the practice of nursing, Dr. Harding will receive the official designation during the OADN 2019 Convention that will be held in November in Louisville, ����ֱ��ucky. The Academy of Associate Degree Nursin...

Once it begins, Alzheimer’s Disease progresses systematically and aggressively, attacking victims on multiple fronts. But scientists studying the disease operate the same way — like ����ֱ�� State University’s own Dr. Gemma Casadesus Smith. Since 2016, Casadesus Smith, an associate professor of biological science in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received more than $2.7 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health to study the causes of Alzheimer’s and identify models for better pharmacological treatments. A new two-year, $224,500 project, titled “Characterization of transcri...

Saxophonist Bobby Selvaggio, ����ֱ�� State's Director of Jazz Studies as well as an alumnus, continues to help invigorate Northeast Ohio's thriving Jazz scene. Earlier this year, he recorded his 11th album, Re:Invented, as leader live at one of Cleveland's premier performance venues, the Bop Stop. The album, to be released Oct. 4 by Dot Time Records, has deep ����ֱ�� State connections, with several KSU faculty and alumni performing. In addition to performing, Bobby wrote and arranged most of the music on the album. ...

Toni Morrison, the bestselling author who died Aug. 5, at one time was offered a job in ����ֱ�� State University’s Department of English, recalled English professor Yoshinobu Hakutani, Ph.D. Hakutani, who wrote part of his dissertation on Morrison’s writings, recalled meeting the late author at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The encounter took place in 1992 during a party to celebrate the publication of Morrison’s book, “Jazz.” Hakutani attended the party with a friend, John Reilly, an English professor at the State University of New York at Albany who taught with Morrison when...

Targeted at widening students’ educational opportunities in preparing them for a career in occupational therapy, the ����ֱ�� State University at Ashtabula Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) Technology program recently announced the creation of a hybrid model, combining online learning with more convenient on-campus laboratory sessions. The new model will launch in Summer 2020. “There is an unfulfilled need for hybrid options for students,” said OTA Program Director Julie Mirabell, MS, OT/L.  “There are a lot of (OTA) programs, but ours will be the first to provide students convenience a...