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The first project created in our new fabrication laboratory is a thin-shell catenary surface experiment utilizing burlap and quickcrete. This marks the beginning of what is to come from our new digital/non-digital maker facility at the new CAED. ...

Breanne Trammell, Assistant Professor in Print Media, has been selected for a Juror's Award for her print "Bad As I Wanna Be (Cheetah)" (below).  The annual international juried exhibition Stand Out Prints is located at the Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis, MN.  Seventy-two prints and objects (by 64 artists across four countries and 27 states) were selected from more than 800 submissions through an international call.  The exhibition was juried by Elizabeth Wyckoff, Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Saint Louis Art Museum. ...

KENT, OHIO, Sept. 12, 2016 – ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï’s Middle Childhood Education program is the first in the state of Ohio to offer an undergraduate program authorized by the International Baccalaureate (IB) Organization: the IB Middle Years Program Certificate in Teaching and Learning. The IB Middle Years Program (MYP) is a curriculum for students in grades 6-10, and focuses on the development of the whole child in the classroom and in the world outside. The IB is a recognized leader in the field of international education. The program defines international education as developing citizens ...

Some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, from the small screen to the A-listers, walked the infamous red carpet for the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards. While some glistened with glamour, others had some major misses. To help judge the best and the worst dressed, Sabrina Pierotti, ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Fashion School student joined Romona Robinson and Mark Nolan on WOIO-TV in Cleveland via www.cleveland19.com. Here are Pierotti’s picks for best dressed.     Here are Pierotti’s picks for worst dressed.         ...

Former NBC executive Paula Madison is 2016 McGruder Award recipient; Plain Dealer columnist Phillip Morris to Be Honored with Diversity Leadership Award ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will honor Paula Madison, former NBC journalist and executive, with the 2016 Robert G. McGruder Distinguished Award for her accomplishments in media diversity. Madison will visit the ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Campus to present a lecture on media diversity and accept the award on Sept. 29. The keynote lecture, which is open to the public, wi...

Thanks to a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, two ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State professors are researching climate change in Alaska. Elizabeth Herndon, Ph.D., and Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Ph.D., assistant professors from ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï's College of Arts and Sciences, spent a week in Fairbanks, Alaska in June studying how climate change affects the availability of plant nutrients in arctic and sub-arctic ecosystems. The grant teams up two of ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State’s newest researchers. “I think it’s really great that two early-career scientists were awarded the funds to do this research,...

Group created by students with autism spectrum disorder to highlight diversity, not disability ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï is once again starting a new fall semester with an abundance of enthusiastic students, but one thing is strikingly different: ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State has a new student organization on campus that joins the few of its type in the nation. Autism Connections ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï has been created by students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their allies with the focus that autism spectrum disorder is a diversity issue and not a disability. “A lot of symptoms of ASD are great assets in certain caree...

The personal finance website WalletHub recently compiled a list of the top 10 happiest states to live in, based on some unique characteristics. Twenty-eight metrics of happiness were measured across 50 states, including emotional health, income level and social connectivity of residents in each state. The happiest place to be? According to WalletHub, it’s Utah. The state swept the competition with the following unique factors: the state has the lowest incidence of heart attacks, lowest divorce rates and highest rates of volunteerism. WalletHub asked a panel of leading experts, from ar...

Following a national search, Wendy Turner has been selected to serve as the new executive director and general manager of WKSU, ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï’s award-winning NPR-affiliated radio station. Turner currently serves as vice president of digital and technical operations at Chicago Public Media. She will begin her new role at WKSU on Oct. 31, 2016. As executive director and general manager, Turner will lead WKSU and its 34 staff members, planning and directing activities related to a public radio network operation, and overseeing personnel administration and professional development of th...