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According to a recent Career Builder survey, 70 percent of employers use social networking sites, such as LinkedIn and Facebook, to screen and assess candidates during the hiring process.   Hiring managers infer applicants’ characteristics based on their social media profiles and make hiring decisions based on these inferences. However, there is little academic research that could be used to justify such inferences.   Research conducted by Julia Levashina, Ph.D., associate professor of management at ����Թ�, along with her colleague Nicolas Roulin, associate profess...

Nicholas and Leah  A Serendipitous Meeting in the Honors College Our Story It was a serendipitous meeting; I came to ����Թ� State from Cleveland for the architecture program, and Leah came to ����Թ� State from Detroit for fashion design. Neither of us ended up in those respective programs, but came together in the Honors College. My junior year, a good friend of mine was dating an R.A. in the Honors College and introduced me to a freshman on her floor. The rest, as they say, is history! The Proposal and Marriage With our families being from different cities, we met in the middle and marrie...

The work of 153 ecological researchers from 40 countries, including ����Թ� Assistant Professor Dave Costello, Ph.D., from the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, has revealed new findings on the effect of climatic factors on river-based ecosystems. The findings are published in the latest issue of the journal Science Advances. “This is the largest such study, with respect to spatial coverage, and allows us to study carbon cycling in streams at unprecedented global scales,” said Dr. Costello, who serves as second author on this pape...

Angel Cuevas is getting his college career back on track after an unfortunate event derailed it early in his college career. The 21-year-old freshman who is majoring in aeronautical engineering suffered a rugby injury during his first semester in the fall of 2017, at which time he abruptly stopped his studies to recuperate. As a way to jump-start his college career, Mr. Cuevas enrolled in Summer Advantage during the summer of 2018. The program is an educational journey based on career exploration, success coaching and academic coursework. Summer Advantage is designed to assist under...

Mike and Kathy A Meeting at Tri-Towers Leads to Love Our Story We met working together at the Tri-Towers dormitory desk. My wife was an education major, and I majored in Architecture.  The Proposal and Marriage I proposed in a car the night I returned from three months of study abroad in Italy, just before my fifth year of Architecture School. We got married July 10, 1981, and were newly graduated with no jobs. She got a teaching position in Mentor that started in September, and I found an architectural position around the same time. We built a home in Mentor and raised our two daughte...

Mark and Lori Sparks at Holly Park  Our Story Mark and I lived in the same building at Holly Park apartments. The Proposal and Marriage Mark proposed the week that I graduated in May, 2000. We've been married for eleven years and have two sons, ages eight and five.  Staying Connected to ����Թ� State Today We currently live in Rootstown, Ohio and have enjoyed taking the family to KSU sporting events. The Homecoming parade is the kids' favorite! ...

Jerry and Marilynn The Thunderbolt Our Story We met in the autumn of 1965 at a FIJI gathering. It was love at first sight, or "the thunderbolt" as it’s known. Although, I am still amazed I fell for a young man from a very small town. The Proposal and Marriage Jerry and I drove to Erie to get my father's "permission" to marry. Of course, my father informed Jerry how lucky he was to be the chosen one. Jerry proposed at the Reservoir near ����Թ�. We were married in Erie, PA, on March 23, 1968, during a severe winter blizzard. We are celebrating our 45th wedding anniversary this year.  ...

Gary and Kris Laying a Foundation for Love at Taylor Hall Our Story We met in architecture school, in the studio of Taylor Hall in 1983. An architecture student from Gary's class, who was an RA from my residence hall, introduced us. We only dated a few times and that summer I got an internship. I told my roommate how I felt that I had missed a great chance at a wonderful connection, since I knew Gary graduated but didn't know where he was working. Turns out, my first summer job was at the architecture firm where Gary started his job after graduation! We started dating; we’d take our lunch to...