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Earning a bachelor’s degree will benefit more than your career path. That is the message from five Ohio university presidents: Beverly Warren, the president of �Ը������� University; Ronald M. Berkman, the president of Cleveland State University; Jay A. Gershen, the president of the Northeast Ohio Medical University; James P. Tressel, the president of Youngstown State University; and Matthew J. Wilson, the president of the University of Akron. The presidents came together to share statistics and encouragement in an op-ed column. They stated the increased earning potential of degree holders an...

  From Committee to Working Group –Diversity is Celebrated A little less than a year ago, members from the Diversity Committee at the Geauga Campus came together under new leadership. Dr. Jeanne Marie Stumpf-Carome envisioned a new direction with her belief that diversity is such an all-encompassing topic and every person should have an opportunity to contribute and celebrate. Her belief was that the title “committee” limits participation and stifles valuable contribution. As a result, the Diversity Committee changed its name to the Working Group for Diversity. This creates an...

The Future Absence Tour kicked off at Scribbles Coffee Co. in Kent, Ohio on October 7. The Future Absence Tour was created by Monster House Press and features poet Richard Wehrenberg Jr. and short fiction writer Bella Bravo. The October 7 reading also featured Mallory Whitten, another writer published by Monster House Press, and Emma Shepard, a writer in Cleveland. Wehrenberg is the co-founder of Monster House Press and the author of two chapbooks and a pamphlet. His poetry is very grounded in nature, reflecting on how each element of the world interacts. Some of his poems are centered aro...

The green- and blue-colored algae that grows out of control and often washes up on the shoreline of Lake Erie is not only unsightly but also harmful to many species, including humans. In Ohio, the western basin of Lake Erie has experienced some of the worst harmful algal blooms in recent years. The blooms have been detected this summer, as they were last summer when the area saw a harmful bloom of record size. In August 2014, cyanobacteria from a harmful algal bloom contaminated the city of Toledo’s water supply and residents were forced to find alternative water sources. To help fight t...

  Faculty at �Ը������� University at Salem and �Ը������� University at East Liverpool are offering tutoring times in addition to the peer tutoring schedule. If you need help or just want to be sure you are on the right track check the Power Hours schedule below. Don't delay, there is no better time than now!  POWER HOURS ...

Physical activity is essential to fighting obesity, and scientists are constantly working to make this activity more effective and beneficial. A $450,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health will help biology professor Colleen Novak, Ph.D., from �Ը������� University’s College of Arts and Sciences better understand how the body allocates energy and burns fat. In her project, “Mechanisms Underlying Contextual Induction of Muscle Thermogenesis,” Novak is studying the biological phenomenon known as thermogenesis — how the body burns caloric energy, turning it into heat. “We are go...

Physical activity is essential to fighting obesity, and scientists are constantly working to make this activity more effective and beneficial. A $450,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health will help biology professor Colleen Novak, Ph.D., from �Ը������� University’s College of Arts and Sciences better understand how the body allocates energy and burns fat. In her project, “Mechanisms Underlying Contextual Induction of Muscle Thermogenesis,” Novak is studying the biological phenomenon known as thermogenesis — how the body burns caloric energy, turning it into heat. “We are go...

�Ը������� University President Beverly Warren delivered the State of the University address on Thursday, Oct. 13. Themed “Living the �Ը������� Promise,” Warren outlined her vision of a reimagined public research university. “The �Ը������� Promise should be a comprehensive approach to student success and fulfillment,” Warren said. “We aspire to bring the totality of the resources and reach of one of the nation’s largest research universities to higher education’s most important outcome: more college graduates who have the skills, talent and desire to change the world – who understand that...