In May 2018, ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï had the largest number of undergraduate degrees ever awarded. One of the majors with the biggest spikes in growth from the previous year was marketing, which saw an increase of 43 students. The marketing major at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State, housed in the College of Business and Administration, aims to teach students valuable skills and lessons they can implement outside of the classroom. Robert Jewell, Ph.D., professor and department chair of the marketing program, attributes the success of the program to collaborative and invested professors and a constantly evolving curr...
The nursing program at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï’s Geauga campus needs community support to continue producing top-trained nurses for understaffed medical facilities throughout northeast Ohio. A lead gift of $50,000 from Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Foundation was recently granted to help the program purchase advanced equipment that helps facilitate premier training. However, $72,000 in individual and corporate/institutional donations are now being sought to help fully fund the simulation equipment for Geauga County’s only institution of higher learning. While nearly half (44%) of north...
The ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Media Law Center for Ethics and Access will host the fifth annual Media at the Movies on Tuesday, March 5. The event will open its doors at 5:30 p.m. and will begin at 6 p.m. in Franklin Hall’s FirstEnergy Auditorium (Room 340). Media at the Movies this year will feature "The Post," last year's Steven Spielberg film starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. It's the true story of the Washington Post's decision to publish the Pentagon Papers about US involvement in Vietnam. Immediately after the showing, there will b...
City rats are unlikely to be on anyone's list of favorite animals, but researching exactly how they are problematic for public health provided a unique opportunity this past summer for Gracen Gerbig, ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State junior majoring in Cellular and Molecular Biology. Ms. Gerbig's summer research was supported by an Undergraduate Research Fellowship award from the American Society for Microbiology. Working with Tara Smith, Ph.D., professor of Public Health, Ms. Gerbig studied antibiotic resistance of the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus isolated from rats in Boston. Her work not only provides im...
Many homes today include safety devices like smoke, radon and carbon monoxide detectors to warn us of threats our senses might not pick up in time. For those whose jobs regularly place them in harm’s way, though, advanced sensing technology is not as readily available. Thanks to a rare Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), however, ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï researchers in the new Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute will be able to work with partners at Merck Performance Materials to advance life-saving ...
ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï at East Liverpool welcomes the public to hear the story of Terry Dear, a local man whose life was changed dramatically following an accident that left him partially paralyzed. He will speak Tues., Feb. 19, beginning at 4:30 p.m. in the Library in Purinton Hall. Students in the physical therapist assistant program are hosting the event and invited Dear to campus to share his experiences as a soldier, athlete and student, and how he has adapted to life following his injury. Admission is free, but there will be a basket raffle and light refreshments. Dear graduat...
It takes a special type of person to pursue a career in Middle Childhood Education (MCED). While most people distance themselves from that awkward middle school stage and leave it in the hazy past, there are others who have a passion for kids in grades four through nine. It’s a calling. And those who have been called deserve to be best equipped. This is where the MCED program at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Geauga comes in. The most unique aspect of this program is that it is an International Baccalaureate (IB)-authorized program in the Middle Years Programme (MYP), says Associate Professor and Pr...
At this point every winter, cabin fever has set in and most of us are daydreaming about springtime. As land steward for Geauga Park District (GPD) in Chardon, Joel Firem is especially eager to get his hands back into the springtime soil to plant tree and wildflower seedlings. Thanks to an ongoing collaboration with ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Geauga and the Regional Academic Center, Firem doesn’t have to wait until May to start the planting season. Every March, he nurtures seeds at the ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Geauga greenhouse in Burton so the seedlings are ready to plant outdoors two to three months later. Through this...
With a passion for entrepreneurial endeavors and a knack for inspiring, Mary Heidler brings a fresh and enthusiastic approach into the classroom. Ms. Heidler, a College of Business Administration lecturer, received the 2018 Outstanding Teaching Award. The Outstanding Teaching Award credits full-time, non-tenure track and part-time members who are nominated by their students for being among the most dedicated, highly effective and motivated professors at the university. The OTA is presented by the University Teaching Council. "It means so much since it is student nominated," Ms. Heidle...
Cultural and historical geographer seeks to connect importance for today’s students, society Growing up, Chris Post watched as his mom juggled her collegiate studies and motherhood, balancing everyday life with dreams of earning her Ph.D. And while field excursions with his biologist mom are a memory of his childhood, the impact of place is something this cultural and historical geographer seeks to define today. Earning a Ph.D. of his own, Dr. Post knows that what we leave behind says a lot about where we are headed. “I’ve always been interested in space and the idea of place and also...