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When Melody Tankersley, ����Թ�'s executive vice president and provost, took the podium at the Summer 2026 Commencement on Aug. 8, she started with the usual — congratulations, applause lines, a reminder of just how rare a college degree still is. ����Թ� three minutes in, though, she took a turn. She brought up a cardigan and a pair of sneakers.Tankersley built her address around an unexpected source of wisdom for a university stage: “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” What looked to many childhood viewers like a gentle, quaint children’s show on television, she told graduates, was in ...

This story appeared in the Canton Repository on Aug. 4, 2026. Written by Aaron Hughes. A Stark County educator was one of dozens across the nation who participated in a three-day teaching program hosted by the Library of Congress. Susan Jaroscak of Macedonia, an adjunct professor at the ����Թ� at Stark campus in Jackson Township, was one of 90 educators who took part in the Summer Teacher Institute, part of the Teaching with Primary Sources program, in Washington, DC.It allows participants to work with experts to learn effective practices for using primary so...

 More than two decades of research on a project led by a ����Թ� professor has resulted in a new discovery in nuclear physics that is being celebrated nationally. The breakthrough came from work done by Brookhaven National Laboratory’s STAR Collaboration, an international group of hundreds of scientists and engineers who conduct nuclear research using the laboratory’s Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Zhangbu Xu, Ph.D., ����Թ� State physics professor in the College of Sciences and Humanities, is the leader of th...