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Two professors have conducted much-needed research on face coverings that use alternative textiles to protect the public from COVID-19 and how to keep those masks virus-free.

U.S. News & World Report has named four ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ University programs as U.S. News Best Online Programs for 2021. ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ is recognized in the Best Online Master’s in Nursing Programs, Best Online MBA Programs, Best Online MBA – Business Analytics Programs and Best Online Graduate Education Programs rankings.

¾«¶«Ó°Òµ University will hold its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21, to celebrate King’s life and legacy. Serving as this year’s keynote speaker is CNN political analyst and former South Carolina state Rep. Bakari Sellers. ¾«¶«Ó°Òµvirtual program is free and open to the public.

¾«¶«Ó°Òµ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ University alumni family will grow by more than 2,500 new graduates as the university holds its fall commencement. ¾«¶«Ó°Òµaccomplishments of the Fall Class of 2020 will be recognized with a virtual commencement recognition ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 19.

¾«¶«Ó°Òµ President Todd Diacon and others express their appreciation for the hard-working employees who have pulled together to keep our campuses operating throughout the pandemic.

Campus Pride has released its 2020 Best of the Best LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities list, and for the first time in school history, ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ University has landed on the distinctive list as one of 40 institutions recognized over six U.S. regions.

More than 21,200 people applied to be part of ¾«¶«Ó°Òµâ€™s Class of 2024, and 3,819 can now consider themselves to be Golden Flashes.

¾«¶«Ó°ÒµAssociation of Public and Land-grant Universities has selected ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ University as one of four finalists for the association’s 2020 Degree Completion Award. ¾«¶«Ó°Òµannual award works to identify, recognize and reward institutions that employ innovative approaches to improve degree completion while ensuring educational quality.

¾«¶«Ó°Òµ University has won a Best in Class award for supplier diversity from the Greater Cleveland Partnership. This marks the third time that the university has received this award. As a multiyear winner of the Best in Class awards, ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ is also named to the Greater Cleveland Partnership’s Equity and Inclusion Hall of Fame.

¾«¶«Ó°Òµ University shines again in the new 2021 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings. ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ is the highest-ranking public university in Northern Ohio on the Top Public Schools and Best National Universities lists in the newly released rankings.