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����Ӱҵ University at East Liverpool was recognized for its 50th anniversary during a Business After Hours event hosted by Home Savings & Loan at its downtown location.  During the event, East Liverpool resident Kelly Bell received a check for $200 from Home Savings & Loan for winning the ����Ӱҵ Golden category. She submitted the photo, entitled “Point of Departure,” to the ����Ӱҵ photography show held last month to observe the campus’s golden anniversary. Home Savings & Loan sponsored the ����Ӱҵ Golden category, created to select the photograph that best exem...

A special classroom at ����Ӱҵ University turned into a LEGO® city filled with roaring lions, speeding cars and spinning tops. ����Ӱҵmoving creations are part of a unique summer camp, LEGO WeDo™ Robotics, put on by the Research Center for Educational Technology in the College of Education, Health and Human Services. It is one of many technology-based camps that the center offers as part of the ����Ӱҵ’s commitment to reaching out and serving the community. Click here to watch a video on the camp. During the school year, researchers at the center use a two-way mirror to study th...

����Ӱҵ University at Salem recently received a bobcat – but not the four-legged kind. Rather, Leppo Rents/Bobcat of Akron donated a Bobcat mini excavator to the campus to be used by horticulture students and faculty. ����ӰҵBobcat is typically used for general excavation and site preparation projects. Dale Leppo, chairman of Leppo Rents/Bobcat of Akron, made the donation possible and Butch Bisirri, sales specialist, delivered the machinery to the campus. "����Ӱҵ Salem has the only horticulture program in the ����Ӱҵ system, and this gift will allow our students, faculty and staff...

����Ӱҵ University has been named to the 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, which is the highest federal recognition an institution can receive for its commitment to community, service-learning and civic engagement.  ����ӰҵCorporation for National and Community Service began awarding this honor in 2006 in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as the American Council on Education, Campus Compact and the Interfaith Youth Core. ����Ӱҵ has been named to the honor roll eight times s...

����Ӱҵ University at Stark Interim Dean Denise Seachrist and Sr. Facilities Manager Brian Gardner recently presented Larry and Chuck Hoover of ����ӰҵHoover Foundation with a copy of the ����Ӱҵ Board of Trustees’ resolution that recognizes ����ӰҵHoover Foundation for their generous support of the campus’s new Science and Nursing Building. ����Ӱҵgeology laboratories and geology mud room in the building, which is opening in August, have been named in honor of the foundation. “We believe in having great local facilities for teaching the sciences to the young people in our community, especiall...

����Ӱҵ University’s College of Arts and Sciences will host a four-day international conference on the humanities at the ����Ӱҵ Hotel and Conference Center at 215 S. Depeyster St. in downtown Kent, Ohio. ����Ӱҵconference, “Why the Humanities: Answers from the Cognitive and Neurosciences,” will take place July 9-12 and features cutting-edge, empirical research demonstrating the ways that education in the humanities develops cognitive and emotional capabilities that are crucial for personal well-being, responsible global citizenship and social justice. ����Ӱҵconference is co-sponsored by the...

WKSU is changing its Saturday and Sunday program schedules starting on Saturday, July 11, and Sunday, July 12. ����Ӱҵstation is adding ����ӰҵMoth Radio Hour and moving Snap Judgment to Saturdays, creating a “storytelling block” with This American Life beginning at noon. Radiolab moves to 3 p.m. An hour dedicated to limited run specials (like last year’s Invisibilia) and hourlong documentaries will air weekly on Saturdays before All Things Considered. “Invisibilia was part of a significant trend in public radio,” said Ele Ellis, program director of WKSU. “It is vital for WKSU to have ...

����Ӱҵ University at Trumbull is once again proud to support the Inspiring Minds Summer Enrichment Program. ����Ӱҵprogram provides over 300 Warren-area students, in grades 3-12, the opportunity to participate in continuing education, sports, art exploration, urban agriculture & gardening, college & career readiness, community service, swimming lessons, field trips and more this summer. Student of the Week honors for the week of August 3 go to Heaven Pough. Pough, 17, a senior at Warren G. Harding, lists her favorite subject as anatomy, boasts a 4.0 GPA, and wants to b...