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Todd Diacon, ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, places the President’s Medal on Distinguished Professor of Human Evolutionary Studies C. Owen Lovejoy as ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State President Beverly Warren watches.

Educator, Pioneering Scientist and Visionary Owen Lovejoy Receives ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State’s Highest Honor

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Distinguished Professor of Human Evolutionary Studies C. Owen Lovejoy, Ph.D., received the President's Medal from President Beverly Warren during the One University Commencement Ceremony on May 13 in Dix Stadium. The President’s Medal is the highest honor conferred by ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï…

Tags: Department of Anthropology , College of Sciences and Humanities , Office of the President , Awards and Honors

College of Sciences and Humanities

Todd Diacon, ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, places the President’s Medal on Distinguished Professor of Human Evolutionary Studies C. Owen Lovejoy as ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State President Beverly Warren watches.

President’s Medal Recipient

Educator, pioneering scientist and visionary Owen Lovejoy receives the highest ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï honor.
 

Tags: Department of Anthropology , College of Sciences and Humanities , Office of the President , Awards and Honors , Success Story

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A student stands vigil on the spot where one of four students was shot on May 4, 1970.

University Commemorates May 4, 1970, Tragedy

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï held its 47th annual commemoration of May 4, 1970, with events taking place May 3 and 4. The annual commemoration, hosted by the May 4 Task Force, provides an opportunity for the university community to gather and remember those who were lost and injured during the tragedy and …

Tags: May 4 , May 4 Commemoration , May 4 Task Force , May 4 Visitors Center , College of Sciences and Humanities , Success Story

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David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï, guides a poetry workshop. Hassler and other Wick Poetry Center staff will lead March for Science participants in a poetry-writing exercise.

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State’s Wick Poetry Center Creates Science Stanzas, Participates in Inaugural March for Science

At the inaugural , a global demonstration centered in Washington, D.C., a special edition of the Wick Poetry Center's Traveling Stanzas titled Science Stanzas will provide an opportunity for participants to discover the intersection of expressive writing and scientific inquiry.

Tags: Success Story , Wick Poetry Center , College of Sciences and Humanities

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Gemma Casadesus Smith, an associate professor in ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State’s Department of Biological Sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health.

Researcher Receives Five-Year Grant From the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State's Gemma Casadesus Smith is studying why women are more likely to develop Alzheimer's. 

Tags: Department of Biological Sciences , College of Sciences and Humanities , Success Story , Research & Science

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State's Ohio Employee Ownership Center Office is located in McGilvery Hall.

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï’s Ohio Employee Ownership Center Hosts 31st Annual Ohio Employee Ownership Conference

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï’s Ohio Employee Ownership Center (OEOC) will host the 31st Annual Ohio Employee Ownership Conference on Friday, April 28, 2017, at the Hilton West in Fairlawn, Ohio. This year’s keynote speaker is Cindy Turcot, Chief Operating Officer of Gardener’s Supply Co. in Burlington, …

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Prof Weighs in on Liberal Arts Degrees and a Future Career as CEO

GoodCall talked with professors around the country about the use of liberal arts degrees and the skills that students use as a springboard to the next step in their education and career path.

Tags: University News , College of Sciences and Humanities , Featured Story

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State student Brooke Mullins stands in front of the Lordstown Fire Department – Station 36 in the Village of Lordstown, Ohio, where she serves as a volunteer firefighter.

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Student Proves Height and Weight Do Not Determine Strength

Weighing in at barely 100 pounds, Brooke Mullins summoned every ounce of strength she had, and even more she didn’t. Her muscles were shaking; her mind – exhausted. The ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï junior had one last shot at overcoming the most grueling portion of a physical exam. If she could pass it, Mu…

Tags: Department of English , College of Sciences and Humanities , Student Success , Success Story , Community & Society

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Uses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Geographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.

Tags: Featured Story , Community & Society , Department of Geography , College of Sciences and Humanities , Research & Science

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new cancer cases diagnosed and 600,920 cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2017.

These numbers are stark and sobering, and worse yet, we still do not know exactly why cancer develops in its victims or how to stop it.

An online publication in Nature Nanotechnology this week by ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

Tags: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , College of Sciences and Humanities , Research & Science

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