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While other Copley High School students went to Friday night football games and dreamed about prom, Leah Miller had her sights set on what lay ahead.  In both middle and high school, Miller took advanced courses. By the time she completed her sophomore year, she had earned nearly all her high school credits, setting her up perfectly to begin College Credit Plus (CCP), a program designed to allow college-ready students, who qualify for college admission, the opportunity to earn college credits. Miller’s interest was piqued by CCP when her older brother participated in the program as ...

The 2021 Staff Excellence Awards celebrated shining examples of dedication to students and the campus community during a year eclipsed by the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 30, nominees gathered at the Conference Center for a small ceremony, also broadcast live on the Teams platform. “You have worked diligently to ensure our campus has not only survived – but thrived – during a global pandemic,” said Denise A. Seachrist, Ph.D., dean and chief administrative officer at ��MŮ�� at Stark. “We eagerly look forward to a fall 2021 semester in which students will be, once again, trav...

Is there anything quite as exciting and fulfilling as following your passion and getting to use the latest technologies to do it? When you find both early in your career you have hit the proverbial jackpot. Finding himself in what he describes as “a great time to be in the field” of evolutionary biology, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Ph.D., could not be more excited about what he hopes to accomplish in ��MŮ��’s College of Arts and Sciences. He joined ��MŮ�� in August 2019 as an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, teaches the Introduction to Genomics cours...

Starting in Semester Fall 2021 , the Department of Pan-African Studies will offer all ��M�� graduate students the option of taking three courses leading to a new graduate minor degree in Race, Gender and Social Justice (RGSJ) at the Kent Campus. Pending approval by the ��M�� Board of Trustees, the department will also change its name to the Department of Africana Studies. This is the first graduate minor ever offered by ��M�� and is specifically designed for students who are currently enrolled in any graduate degree program across the university. Undergr...

��MŮ�� has recently received a flurry of grants totaling more than $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which will support research and innovation in a wide range of fields within the College of Arts and Sciences.  “We’re thrilled to receive this funding,” Vice President of Research and Sponsored Programs Paul DiCorleto said. “Especially impressive is the breadth and scope of research being funded. To have such a wide range of faculty being successful at garnering extremely competitive funding is a testament to the excellent researchers we have...

As racial tensions shook the nation to its core throughout the summer of 2020, the historic rock located at the front of campus became a focal point of derogatory remarks. At that time, members of the Integrated Greek Council (IGC) took charge, deciding not only that things needed to change but in a meaningful and impactful way for decades to come. That’s when Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. and IGC plots Committee Chair Sydney Evans put together a thoughtful and inspiring letter to the university, which stated in part more needed to be done to recognize Black and Latino students on campu...

By: Jessica Ordóñez-Lancet  May 04, 2021 RESTON, Va. – Across more than 200 college campuses in 43 states, millions of students participated in the 2021 Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where they helped to reduce their waste footprint through waste minimization efforts, and the donation, composting, and recycling of more than 25.8 million pounds of waste. "Over the last two decades, more than 1,000 higher education campuses have joined our Campus Race to Zero Waste program. By reducing their waste, these campuses have decreased the amount of trash ent...

It’s a sunny spring day at ��MŮ�� at Stark – the perfect day to install an educational groundwater well field behind the campus’ Pond & Wetlands Research Area. And while contractors dig deep, science faculty know the groundbreaking will have an impact that’s limitless: real-world learning through hands-on experience. Near the drilling site, Eric Taylor, Ph.D., associate professor of geology, and Carrie Schweitzer, Ph.D., professor of geology, watch eagerly. This moment is one they’ve been looking forward to for years. Tradesmen from Ohio Testbor, Inc. – contracted by ...

��MŮ�� Magazine Spring/Summer 2021 By Candace Goforth DeSantis, BS ’94, and Jim Maxwell, BS ’00, MS ’11 By now, it is well understood that the role of women in science has gone largely uncredited throughout history. In recent years, a movement has grown to correct the record and bring attention to the overlooked contributions of women scientists. One of those women is Eunice Newton Foote, whose discovery 165 years ago paved the way for our modern understanding of Earth’s natural greenhouse effect, which is fundamental to the study of climate change. Joseph D. Ortiz, PhD, co-authored a ...