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There will be free COVID-19 testing this week open to all at Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown.

During his 34 year tenure at ����Ӱҵ University, professor Lawrence Marks, Ph.D., has been at the forefront of developing online classes, which have become an indispensable part of learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

����Ӱҵ University Associate Professor Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor has authored a perspective piece on racial equality that is featured in the July 15 Washington Post column, “Made by History.”

����Ӱҵ is just six weeks away from move in. To count down the return of students, faculty and staff for the start of the fall semester, the university will review one Flashes Safe Seven principle each week. This week, we focus on Clean and Sanitize.

����Ӱҵ University’s Lamar R. Hylton, Ph.D., and Taléa R. Drummer-Ferrell, Ph.D., recently entered the annals of university history. On May 1, 2020, Hylton became the first Black person in the university’s history to hold the title of vice president for student affairs. And on July 1, 2020, Drummer-Ferrell was appointed dean of students, making her the first Black woman to be named to the position. 

����Ӱҵ University introduced a Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience in fall 2019, and since the launch, the major has had tremendous growth. Enrollment is projected to surpass majors that have been at ����Ӱҵ for years.

We are here to help. That was one of the main messages international students at ����Ӱҵ University heard during a held July 9 to help answer questions and share the university’s response to a recent announcement by the federal government regarding Fall 2020 international student enrollment requirements. 

����Ӱҵ is just seven weeks away from move in. To count down the return of students, faculty and staff for the start of the fall semester, the university will review one Flashes Safe Seven principle each week. This week, we focus on Wash Your Hands Frequently.

����Ӱҵ����Ӱҵ University at Ashtabula Respiratory Therapy program is among elite company as it was recently awarded the Distinguished Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) Credentialing Success Award by the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC) for the third straight year.

����Ӱҵ 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 ����Ӱҵ University Libraries’ new contactless service that allows users to check out materials from its collection while libraries on the Kent and Regional campuses remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

����ӰҵCampus Kitchen at ����Ӱҵ University, a student-run organization that reclaims food to feed the needy in the Kent 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 ����Ӱҵ's University Communications and Marketing department and an adjunct public relations instructor with the College of Communication and Information.

When ����Ӱҵ University closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March, not all students living on the Kent Campus were able to leave. 

Members of ����Ӱҵ University’s Design Innovation Initiative are forging creative collaborations with local and regional organizations and funders as they work toward the production of personal protective equipment (PPE) for first responders battling the COVID-19 pandemic.

A team of ����Ӱҵ students took home the Outstanding Science Award from the Biodesign Challenge Summit 2020 held in June.

Jhariah Wadkins, a senior communications studies major in ����Ӱҵ 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 ����Ӱҵ University’s Division of Research and Sponsored Programs, shares his inner thoughts as an ally.

����Ӱҵ 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.  ����Ӱҵ$20,000 grant will be split evenly between the two initiatives.

����ӰҵNational Science Foundation believes ����Ӱҵ 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.