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Cancer Connects Two Pilots, a Decade Apart and a Mile High

Matthew Dougard and Niki Kukwa never met, but they made a connection high above the clouds, drawn together by the will to fight and a passion to fly.

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Paddling Partners Team Up Along the Cuyahoga River

Paddling is one of the fastest growing outdoor recreational sports around the country.  Few universities are located so close to a river to offer the sport, and even fewer partner with the city where it resides. 

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State's Rick Ferdig, Ph.D., served as lead investigator on a National Science Foundation grant to develop a new learning app that is now live and freely available on iTunes.

ParkApps: Using Technology to Learn ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï a National Park

Educators, scientists, and technologists from the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï and Cleveland Metroparks have partnered to develop a new learning app that is now live and freely available on iTunes. 

Tags: College of Education, Health and Human Services , School of Lifespan Development and Educational Sciences , Research Center for Educational Technology , Research , National Science Foundation , Research & Science , Community & Society

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No Desk Jobs for These ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Alumna

Walk the halls of some secondary private schools in Ohio and you will see students adorned in what appears to be typical school attire: striped skirts, traditional ties and stark white button-up oxfords.     What you do not see are the amazing women around the globe who use se…

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 Danielle Sarver Coombs, associate professor in ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, lectures in a Franklin Hall classroom during an afternoon journalism class.

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Journalism Professor Says Clinton Nomination Highlights Double Standard

Danielle Sarver Coombs, Associate Professor in the College of Communication and Information, feels that women have to run their campaigns differently than their male counterparts. She recently shared her views with the Akron Beacon Journal for a story about Hillary Clinton's selection a…

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A ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State student stands vigil at the spot where Allison Krause was shot on May 4, 1970.

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Observes 46th Annual May 4 Commemoration

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï held its 46th annual commemoration of May 4, 1970, with events taking place April 26 through May 4. The annual commemoration, hosted by the May 4 Task Force, provided an opportunity for the university community to gather and remember those who were lost and injured during the t…

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State student Ashley Flowers poses under a bridge in downtown ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï with a bag full of items she hands out to the homeless in downtown Cleveland.

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Student Creates Care Packages for the Homeless

When the concept of homelessness comes to mind, people tend to focus efforts on food donations, but Ashley Flowers, a junior majoring in psychology and criminology and justice studies at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï, wants to remind people that clothing and toiletries also are essential items. A native …

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Shanice Cheatham worked with ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State’s College of Public Health and LaunchNET ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State to help her company, Endemic Solutions, develop its Endemic Filtration Portable Handwashing System.

Life-Changing Event Inspires ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Entrepreneur to Help Prevent Infectious Diseases

In 2009, Shanice Cheatham, who received her bachelor’s degree from ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï in 2013 and is pursuing a graduate degree in environmental health sciences at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State, was told that her father had a 10 percent chance of living after being infected with MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylo…

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï President Beverly Warren, pictured here with ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State students, has personally matched $25,000 for donations made to ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State on Giving Tuesday.

A Very Special Thank You to the ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Community for Its Generosity on Giving Tuesday

The ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï community gave generously on Giving Tuesday this Dec. 1, far exceeding expectations. As promised, President Beverly Warren personally matched $25,000 in a gift to the Distinctive ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Fund, a fund that will support the university’s five priorities for a distinctive Ke…

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Community Members Share What They Are Thankful for This Year

Happy Thanksgiving! Watch this video to find out what members of the ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï community, including President Beverly Warren, are thankful for this year.  

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