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����Թ�’s Glauser School of Music held the inaugural Roy Minoff Composition Competition in spring 2023 with judging completed in June. Max Grafe, D.M.A., of Lawrenceville, New Jersey, has been selected as the winner of the 2023 Roy Minoff Composition Competition.  The goal of this competition is to support the creation of a significant new work that will receive its world premiere at ����Թ� State by School of Music faculty in the fall of 2024. Grafe, the winning composer, will attend the world premiere of his new work and give a lecture on his music.  "I'm incre...

The Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda, could easily be mistaken for a botanical garden: groves of palm trees, a rose garden and abundant blooming flowers and tropical plants form a lush landscape accentuated by fountains, sculptures, and the soft, joyful melodies of African songbirds.  At its center, however, large concrete expanses of graves tell the story of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, when more than 1 million members of the Tutsi tribe were murdered in a 100-day span by the government-backed Hutu tribe. More than 250,000 of those victims are laid to rest beneath th...

Starting the fall, ����Թ� will offer an evidence-based suicide prevention course through funding from the Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation (OSPF). The class will be offered through the ����Թ� State College of Applied and Technical Studies’ Bachelor of Social Work program at the Ashtabula, Salem and Tuscarawas campuses. ����Թ� State is the first university in Ohio to provide the course to its students outside of the original course developers at the University of Cincinnati, Old Dominion University, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. WHY: According to the...