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Community & Society

ӰƵ Alumna Heather Malarcik is director of Main Street Kent.

ӰƵ Alumna Found Her Passion Promoting Downtown Kent

As a ӰƵ student in the early 1990s, Heather Rohwedder Malarcik '96 could never have imagined that she would one day find her dream job in downtown Kent, Ohio.

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Kindness Rocks at the Women's Center

Kindness Rocks Kent

People from Kent and ӰƵ are sharing positivity and building community with small rocks. 

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Wheelchair Basketball Championship Game 2023

IN A FLASH: Championship Game at the MAC Center!

On Saturday, ӰƵ hosted Adaptive Sports Ohio's Wheelchair Basketball Championship. 

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Amoaba Gooden

Black History Month Ends, but Diversity Work Continues at ӰƵ

One of the leaders of ӰƵ’s Anti-Racism Task Force is reflecting on the group’s success with an eye to the past. 

“The accomplishments of the task force are really grounded in the historic work of the Department of Africana Studies, Black United Students and many others,” said Amoaba Gooden, Ph.D., vice president for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, who heads the task force. 

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Sandra Morgan stands near a replica of her grandfather's invention at the Western Reserve Historical Society

IN A FLASH: Her Grandfather's Legacy

A ӰƵ administrator has a connection to a famous inventor. 

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Elizabeth Smith-Pryor unboxing Urban League documents

The Importance of Dusty, Old Boxes

A researcher unboxed the history of local Urban Leagues in ӰƵ's University Library. 

Tags: Nationally Distinctive , University News , Research & Science , Community & Society

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Lafayette Tolliver and Gene Shelton identify people in photos on the screen

Visual Footprints in Time

More than 1,000 photos of Black student life have been digitized and are waiting for members of the ӰƵ community to help identify them.

Tags: Community & Society , Community Impact , May 4 50

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Salem Food Pantry

On-Site Supply Of Food, Hygiene Items To Benefit Students On Salem Campus

It’s official: the Flash’s Food Pantry on the ӰƵ Salem Campus is open!

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Drone footage shows the freight train derailment, Feb. 6, 2023, in East Palestine, Ohio. (Photo courtesy of Ntsbgov/via Reuters)

ӰƵ Experts Weigh in on Aftermath of East Palestine Train Derailment

ӰƵ faculty members have been contacted by various media outlets to lend their expert opinions and insight as cleanup work, air monitoring, water testing and more continues following the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

Tags: Community & Society , Community Impact , Nationally Distinctive , Department of Geography , Department of Earth Sciences , College of Sciences and Humanities , Environmental Science and Design Research Institute

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Administrative visit to ӰƵ at Stark - February 2023

Seven Campuses in Four Days

ӰƵ administrators met with campus advisory boards on all seven of the university's Regional Campuses this week. 

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