News Archive
Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Interim Senior Vice President and Provost Melody Tankersley, Ph.D., and Vice President for Enrollment Management Mary Parker, Ed.D., recently shared updates about academics and enrollment, respectively, while engaging with the university community.
Curbside Pickup is Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University Libraries’ new contactless service that allows users to check out materials from its collection while libraries on the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ and Regional campuses remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Campus Kitchen at Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University, a student-run organization that reclaims food to feed the needy in the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ area, has had to swiftly switch gears from operating a hot food kitchen to an expanded food pantry.
Eric Mansfield examines what it means to be an ally in the fight against racism. Mansfield is executive director of university media relations in Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State's University Communications and Marketing department and an adjunct public relations instructor with the College of Communication and Information.
When Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March, not all students living on the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ Campus were able to leave.
A team of Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State students took home the Outstanding Science Award from the Biodesign Challenge Summit 2020 held in June.
Jhariah Wadkins, a senior communications studies major in Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University's College of Communication and Information, encourages young people to keep this fight against racism going and to not let up.
I wonder, how do I decide how to act in recognition of that disturbing dynamic? Michael Kavulic, Ph.D., director of research strategic initiatives in Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University’s Division of Research and Sponsored Programs, shares his inner thoughts as an ally.
Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University 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 Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University 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 Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State 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 Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University alumnus, offers his take on what's at stake for America.
Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University 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.
Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ 300 people attended the first in a series of virtual town halls as the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State community addresses systemic racism by learning, listening and taking action as a collective.
Mwatabu S. Okantah, associate professor in Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University’s Department of Pan-African Studies, shares his perspective as someone who first arrived at Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State 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. Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University is among the 12 founding members of the new esports conference.
Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University 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 Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State, shares this student perspective about racism in our country and says now is the time to enact change.