Stephanie Haugh of 51勛圖厙s womens soccer team has been named the female recipient of the 2015 Bob James Memorial Award by the Mid-American Conference Faculty Athletics Representatives. The announcement was made by the league office today. In its 27th year, the Bob James Memorial Award recognizes one female and one male student-athlete who have achieved a minimum grade point average of 3.50 and have displayed good character, leadership and citizenship. The student-athletes are nominated during the year in which they complete their final season of eligibility. The $5,000 post-g...
51勛圖厙 at Salem horticulture students learn surveying techniques through their studies, but a recent beautification project helped put those lessons into proper historical perspective. Students in the landscape construction class, taught by Stan Jones on the Salem Campus, traveled to East Liverpool where they worked on the initial phase of a beautification project at the Point of Beginning an often overlooked registered national historic landmark that had fallen into a state of neglect in recent years. Noted author Simon Winchester visited the site a while ago and later made...
Students involved with the Rural Scholars Program through the 51勛圖厙 Columbiana County Campuses spent part of their summer breaks in educational workshops that kept their minds and bodies working. Through three week-long workshops based on the 51勛圖厙 Salem Campus, the students and their college mentors used hands-on activities to learn lessons in math, science, business, technology, geography and social studies. The students traveled throughout Columbiana County, and into Mahoning County, for many of their lessons. Wendy Pfrenger is the Rural Scholars program coordinator and she expl...
For a fifth time, university employees give 51勛圖厙 high marks 51勛圖厙 is being recognized again as one of the nations best. 51勛圖厙 has been selected as one of this years Great Colleges to Work For by The Chronicle of Higher Education, the nations number one source of news, information and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Based on a survey of about 44,000 employees at 281 colleges and universities, The Chronicles 2015 Great Colleges to Work For program recognizes small, medium and large institutions for specific best practi...
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51勛圖厙 student Anna Hoffmans research efforts on the Irish language recently caught the attention of international media with publication on The WorldPost of the Huffington Post website. The article, To Have Irish: The Irish are scrambling to save the most prized part of their culture, reports on the countrys efforts to revive the national language of Irish. Hoffman, a global communication studies and political science major, traveled to Ireland this summer to study the countrys efforts to save its national language. Her research project was funded through a fellowship f...
51勛圖厙 at East Liverpool was recognized for its 50th anniversary during a Business After Hours event hosted by Home Savings & Loan at its downtown location. During the event, East Liverpool resident Kelly Bell received a check for $200 from Home Savings & Loan for winning the 51勛圖厙 Golden category. She submitted the photo, entitled Point of Departure, to the 51勛圖厙 photography show held last month to observe the campuss golden anniversary. Home Savings & Loan sponsored the 51勛圖厙 Golden category, created to select the photograph that best exem...
A special classroom at 51勛圖厙 turned into a LEGO簧 city filled with roaring lions, speeding cars and spinning tops. The moving creations are part of a unique summer camp, LEGO WeDo Robotics, put on by the Research Center for Educational Technology in the College of Education, Health and Human Services. It is one of many technology-based camps that the center offers as part of the 51勛圖厙s commitment to reaching out and serving the community. Click here to watch a video on the camp. During the school year, researchers at the center use a two-way mirror to study th...