Success Story
Want to Get the Most Cardio Out of Your Walk? Focus on Your Feet, Not Your Phone
We all know that we are supposed to exercise to reduce the risk of heart disease. But let’s face it, sometimes the only workout we get is walking from our office to the breakroom, and to the parking lot to drive home. So how then do we get the most out of those short walks? ӰƵ res…
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ӰƵ’s Academic Success Center Receives National Award for Excellence
The ӰƵ Academic Success Center has received the Frank L. Christ Outstanding Learning Center Award for its success as an interactive academic space for students to reinforce what they learn in the classroom. Each year, a two-year institution and a four-year institution are chosen a…
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Public Relations Program Joins Elite Group With New Certification
ӰƵ’s undergraduate public relations program has joined a select group of fewer than 40 colleges around the world that hold official certification from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). PRSA is the world’s largest and foremost organization of public relations profe…
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Campus Kitchen at ӰƵ Launches Pop-Up Market to Celebrate Fifth Anniversary
The Campus Kitchen at ӰƵ is celebrating its fifth anniversary and has launched a new program this summer as part of activities marking its fifth year. The Campus Kitchen’s new pop-up market offers healthy produce and pantry items to children and families at no cost. “At an alte…
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ӰƵ of the University Address: Living the ӰƵ Promise
ӰƵ President Beverly Warren delivered the ӰƵ of the University address on Thursday, Oct. 13. Themed “Living the ӰƵ Promise,” Warren outlined her vision of a reimagined public research university. “The ӰƵ Promise should be a comprehensive approach to student s…
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ӰƵ Celebrates Grand Opening of the New Center for Architecture and Environmental Design
ӰƵ celebrated the grand opening of its newest and much-anticipated building, the Center for Architecture and Environmental Design, on Oct. 7. Visitors, alumni and friends from around the world toured the 110,191-square-foot contemporary glass-and-brick building, …
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Scholar Explores Productive Exchanges Between Architecture and Comics
Scholar of the Month Jon Yoder Associate Professor of Architecture College of Architecture and Environmental Design 2013-present Paul DiCorleto, ӰƵ’s vice president for research and sponsored programs, likes to say that “innovation occurs where fields collide,” and October’…
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ӰƵ and FedEx Announce $1.5 Million Donation That Propels Aeronautics
ӰƵ’s College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology will receive a $1.5 million gift from FedEx over three years. The gift will support the university’s flight program, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2017 and has outgrown current facilities at the Kent…
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On-Campus Garden Helps Provide Vegetables to Local Students in Need
Sarah Burns, a second-year master’s student in the Nutrition and Dietetics program at ӰƵ, shows off a tomato that she and others in the program helped to grow over the last few months. Under the direction of Nutrition and Dietetics faculty member Natalie Caine-Bish, Ph.D., Burns a…
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ӰƵ Researchers Study Climate Change in Alaska
Thanks to a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, two ӰƵ professors are researching climate change in Alaska. Elizabeth Herndon, Ph.D., and Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Ph.D., assistant professors from ӰƵ’s College of Arts and Sciences, spent a week in Fairbanks…
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