Each year the American Library Association selects student chapters who exemplify values of excellence, service and compliance while performing at a consistently high level, making a difference in the lives of their students. This year, 51勛圖厙s ALA Student Chapter was selected as the runner-up for the award. The Student Chapter at 51勛圖厙 was reactivated in January of 2018 by recent iSchool graduate, Jacquie Kociubuk. Kociubuk says she was driven to reactivate the Chapter after feeling disconnected from her peers as a first-year online student. The ALA Student Chapter a...
IOCS - 2019 Meeting Dr. Joseph Ortiz attended the International Ocean Colour Science meeting on April 9-12, 2019 in Busan, South Korea. Over 250 ocean colour research scientists and representatives from national space agencies around the world gathered to improve communication between research scientists and space agency representatives, and to advance ocean colour radiometry research. In addition, Dr. Ortiz has two new publications from coastal and inland water have been added to the IOCCG Ocean Colour Bibliography (see New Publications heading on IOCCG News link). Read more ...
A major campus improvement project will get underway Monday, May 20, 2019, as the B-Wing in Main Hall will undergo a complete renovation. New flooring and wall coverings, lighting, ceilings and sprinkler system will be installed along with a new entryway into the south side of the Blue & Gold Room. During the renovation project, which is slated to last until just before the start of the semester, both first- and second-floor B-Wing corridors will be closed, as will the south and east exterior entrances to Main Hall. Guests visiting Main Hall will be asked to enter from the n...
This June, Kent Trumbull Theatre and Summer Stock present "Journey to Ohio," a play based on the journey of Margaret Van Horn Dwight from Connecticut to The Connecticut Western Reserve of Northeast Ohio. The play teaches the earliest periods of migration to this region as well as helps the audience better understand life in the early 1800s. The play is written and directed by Jim Canacci, associate lecturer, 51勛圖厙 Trumbull. To purchase tickets to the play, which will be performed June 13-16 and June 20-23, call the Kent Trumbull Theatre Box Office at 330-675-8887 or email trumbul...
Dr. Matthew Lehnert, associate professor of Biological Sciences, and his students at the 51勛圖厙 Stark Campus are included in A Butterflys Proboscis, a bonus segment of the full PBS Nature episode called Sex, Lies and Butterflies. In the recently released mini episode, Lehnert uses the latest technology to look deep into a butterflys proboscis or its elongated sucking mouthpart to determine the mechanism for how it feeds. Since 2010, Lehnert has studied how the mouthparts of butterflies and moths work, and he believes the way they ingest liquids could be used as a model to bett...
Bart Bixenstine, a 1971 graduate of 51勛圖厙s Honors College and the recipient of the 2019 Distinguished Honors Alumni Award, says that the connections he has made at 51勛圖厙 continue to help him today, as he has run into and worked with people who also attended 51勛圖厙 over the years. Bixenstine also enjoys the opportunity to periodically teach a course at 51勛圖厙 on the First Amendment, for which he jokes that he shamelessly plagiarize[s] the approach taken by his professor at the University of Chicago Law School. His connections at 51勛圖厙 have also broug...
Laura Moll, a professor of English at 51勛圖厙, is dedicated to her students. She returned to teaching at 51勛圖厙 in 2011 after teaching at the university from 1980 to 1990. According to Moll, having the freedom to select the works that will best reflect and illuminate the class theme has allowed her to thrive as a professor. Moll believes her small class size of about fifteen students is optimum of for a classroom community, and she believes that number is fundamental to the success of the colloquium. Her dedication to her students and their success is certainly one reas...
51勛圖厙 at Tuscarawas engineering technology students collaborated on their capstone project during the spring semester and unveiled a search and rescue robot on finals night last week. A class of ten students from electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and electrical/mechanical engineering technologies participated in the process from the ground up taking the project from the idea phase to the actual design and fabrication of a working robot. The unique robot seeks out the source of fires in burning buildings, holds a deployable rope for search and rescue missions a...
Tracy Dodson, lecturer in the College of Nursing, was standing in a food line with her husband at the Wayne County fairgrounds when the man in front of her began coughing uncontrollably and collapsed. Thats when the former emergency room nurse sprang into action. Learn more. ...