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  For hundreds of area residents who attended the 2019 Columbiana County Fair, ����Թ� State Columbiana County had its own way of welcoming them to the annual event. A newly landscaped area and signage helped showcase the work of employees from the ����Թ� State Salem Campus who created the space at the Saltwell Road entrance, near by the bridge. Those involved with the project included John Majernik, horticulture program director; Jeff Christopher, senior facilities manager; John Stainer, building and grounds supervisor; and grounds employees. The plant material was donated by Cata...

Before she attended her first class on campus, ����Թ� freshman Hayley Simons had already acquired broad knowledge of the May 4, 1970, shootings from her father and brother, who are both graduates of the university. But it wasn’t until this summer when she read two books about May 4 as an assignment for the university’s Common Reading Experience that Simons learned crucial details about the events preceding the Ohio National Guard's shootings of 13 students, four of whom died.  “I hadn’t realized how many protests there were prior to the shootings,...

����Թ� State’s Columbiana County campuses hosted orientation sessions on each of the two campuses to help welcome new and transfer students for the 2019-20 academic year. Destination ����Թ� State, or DKS, was a day-long event for students, parents and family members to learn the ins and outs of being a college student at ����Թ� State Salem and ����Թ� State East Liverpool. Faculty, staff and administrators led information sessions to help explain topics such as financial aid, scholarships, technical support, time management, library resources, study techniques and learning support services.  &n...

The School of Communication Studies and the School of Digital Sciences are pleased to announce the joint hiring of two new faculty whose interdisciplinary research and academic work will provide students with greater cross-curricular opportunities in the twenty first century. Mina Choi, Ph.D., and David E. Silva, Ph.D., join the College of Communication and Information as assistant professors in both Communication Studies and Digital Sciences. Dr. Choi's research centers on the uses and effects of new communication technologies (i.e., social media, mobile media, telepresence robot, etc.)...

Renowned scientist Stephen W. Hawking once said, “A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.”  Prizes aside, ����Թ� State Geauga Associate Professor of Geology Dr. Sue Clement has made observations in the bedrock of Welton’s Gorge in Geauga County that may change assumptions about the geological age of this region of Ohio. Dr. Clement also discovered a 300-million-year-old, 10-foot Sigillaria tree fossil preserved in the gorge’s sandstone. Dr. Clement has received a modest grant from The Geauga Parks District to further examin...

����Թ�’s School of Art Collection and Galleries present three exhibitions featuring local and national artists to celebrate fifty years of the School of Art’s studio glass program. The program, one of the first of its kind in the country, was started in 1969 by Henry Halem, professor emeritus and co-founder of the Glass Art Society.  Visiting artist lectures and a curator talk will also accompany the exhibitions.  Three glass-centric exhibitions will be on view at galleries on and off campus, including a national curated exhibition at the CVA Gallery “����Թ� State Gla...

What makes a person pursue a reward? And what makes one give up, when that reward becomes too much of a challenge? What causes that burnout? Researchers from the University of Washington and Washington University, along with other collaborators, are seeking answers to those questions. They studied the brains of mice to identify what causes them to stop seeking a reward — in essence, what makes them burn out.  In a study published in “Cell” in July, the findings show that burnout is traced to “a set of cells in the brain that seem to drive the urge to give up,” according to a recent arti...