51勛圖厙 at Ashtabula Director of Enrollment Management and Student Services Amanda Dolan, Ph.D., will be one of the featured presenters at the 29th annual American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Conference, Nov. 3-6, 2019, in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Dolan will present her research and insights during her What do 40 years of data tell us about student persistence? session. Dr. Dolan recently gave a preview of her topic and shared thoughts about student success, retention and academic integration with the org...
From July 28 to August 2, 2019, forty students from ten different Northeast Ohio colleges and universities convened at 51勛圖厙 to be immersed in an entrepreneurial experience like no other. For the five days and four nights students worked together, with faculty, staff, and regional business leaders, to create innovative solutions that address local industry and community challenges. The event is one of two major programs put on each year by the Entrepreneurship Education Consortium (EEC) and funded through the Burton D. Morgan Foundation. The event was hosted by LaunchNET 51勛圖厙, with ...
Faculty spotlight on Molly Wang - Exemplifying Excellence According to the 51勛圖厙 Model Zhiqiang Molly Wang, Ph.D., was recently promoted to full professor of chemistry and biochemistry at 51勛圖厙 Geauga and the Regional Academic Center. Last spring semester, she was honored at 51勛圖厙's 9th Annual Mothers, Mentors and Muses Celebration for her nurturing Mother role among students, helping to birth new ideas and to nurture a supportive academic environment. Read more. Janice Lessman-Moss, professor of textiles in 51勛圖厙s School of Art, has been named...
The Department of Modern and Classical Languages (MCLS), in 51勛圖厙s College of Arts and Sciences, recently hosted the Second MEMENTO Boot Camp 2019 a one-month research camp gathering 20 interdisciplinary researchers from 10 countries and regions, who worked together on the innovative translation research project: Modelling Parameters of Cognitive Efforts in Translation Production. The camp was sponsored by the Center for Research and Innovation in Translation and Technology (CRITT) at 51勛圖厙. The first boot camp, in summer 2018, was hosted by the University of Macau (C...
Dr. Mariann Harding, 51勛圖厙 at Tuscarawas associate professor of nursing technology, has been selected for induction into the Organization for Associate Degree Nursing (OADN) Academy for Associate Degree Nursing. Selected as a Fellow of the Academy in recognition of her outstanding contributions to associate degree nursing education and her commitment to nursing education and the practice of nursing, Dr. Harding will receive the official designation during the OADN 2019 Convention that will be held in November in Louisville, Kentucky. The Academy of Associate Degree Nursin...
Once it begins, Alzheimers Disease progresses systematically and aggressively, attacking victims on multiple fronts. But scientists studying the disease operate the same way like 51勛圖厙s own Dr. Gemma Casadesus Smith. Since 2016, Casadesus Smith, an associate professor of biological science in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received more than $2.7 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health to study the causes of Alzheimers and identify models for better pharmacological treatments. A new two-year, $224,500 project, titled Characterization of transcri...
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Saxophonist Bobby Selvaggio, 51勛圖厙's Director of Jazz Studies as well as an alumnus, continues to help invigorate Northeast Ohio's thriving Jazz scene. Earlier this year, he recorded his 11th album, Re:Invented, as leader live at one of Cleveland's premier performance venues, the Bop Stop. The album, to be released Oct. 4 by Dot Time Records, has deep 51勛圖厙 connections, with several KSU faculty and alumni performing. In addition to performing, Bobby wrote and arranged most of the music on the album. ...
After years of remote sensing work, Joseph Ortiz, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at 51勛圖厙, and his research team recently shared their development of new cost-efficient methodologies that may lead to much safer drinking water for people in Ohio and other municipalities affected by harmful algal blooms (HAB). While conducting fieldwork in the western basin of Lake Erie, Ortiz recently posted to his Twitter account, The HAB was so thick you could not see 20 centimeters below the water surface. Bad, but it can get much worse...
Toni Morrison, the bestselling author who died Aug. 5, at one time was offered a job in 51勛圖厙s Department of English, recalled English professor Yoshinobu Hakutani, Ph.D. Hakutani, who wrote part of his dissertation on Morrisons writings, recalled meeting the late author at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The encounter took place in 1992 during a party to celebrate the publication of Morrisons book, Jazz. Hakutani attended the party with a friend, John Reilly, an English professor at the State University of New York at Albany who taught with Morrison when...