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Community & Society

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. 

Tags: Community & Society , Featured Story

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51³Ô¹ÏÍø'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 About a National Park

Educators, scientists, and technologists from the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø 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 51³Ô¹ÏÍø 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…

Tags: LaunchNet 51³Ô¹ÏÍø , Office of the Provost , entrepreneurship , Community & Society

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 Danielle Sarver Coombs, associate professor in 51³Ô¹Ï꿉۪s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, lectures in a Franklin Hall classroom during an afternoon journalism class.

51³Ô¹ÏÍø 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…

Tags: Community & Society

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A 51³Ô¹ÏÍø student stands vigil at the spot where Allison Krause was shot on May 4, 1970.

51³Ô¹ÏÍø Observes 46th Annual May 4 Commemoration

51³Ô¹ÏÍø 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…

Tags: May 4 , May 4 Commemoration , May 4 Task Force , May 4 Visitors Center , College of Arts and Sciences , Success Story , Community & Society

Kent Campus

51³Ô¹ÏÍø student Ashley Flowers poses under a bridge in downtown Kent with a bag full of items she hands out to the homeless in downtown Cleveland.

51³Ô¹ÏÍø 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 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, wants to remind people that clothing and toiletries also are essential items. A native …

Tags: Student Success , Success Story , Division of Student Life , Community & Society

Kent Campus

Shanice Cheatham worked with 51³Ô¹Ï꿉۪s College of Public Health and LaunchNET 51³Ô¹ÏÍø to help her company, Endemic Solutions, develop its Endemic Filtration Portable Handwashing System.

Life-Changing Event Inspires 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Entrepreneur to Help Prevent Infectious Diseases

In 2009, Shanice Cheatham, who received her bachelor’s degree from 51³Ô¹ÏÍø in 2013 and is pursuing a graduate degree in environmental health sciences at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, was told that her father had a 10 percent chance of living after being infected with MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylo…

Tags: College of Public Health , LaunchNet 51³Ô¹ÏÍø , Student Success Story , Success Story , Community & Society , Health

Kent Campus

51³Ô¹ÏÍø President Beverly Warren, pictured here with 51³Ô¹ÏÍø students, has personally matched $25,000 for donations made to 51³Ô¹ÏÍø on Giving Tuesday.

A Very Special Thank You to the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Community for Its Generosity on Giving Tuesday

The 51³Ô¹ÏÍø 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 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Fund, a fund that will support the university’s five priorities for a distinctive Ke…

Tags: Office of the President , Division of Institutional Advancement , Success Story , Community & Society

Kent Campus

Kent Campus Fall

51³Ô¹ÏÍø Community Members Share What They Are Thankful for This Year

Happy Thanksgiving! Watch this video to find out what members of the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø community, including President Beverly Warren, are thankful for this year.  

Tags: Office of the President , Success Story , Community & Society

Kent Campus

51³Ô¹ÏÍø students, including members of its athletics teams, fraternities and sororities, joined community members to restore the Mitchell/McClelland Ballpark in the McElrath neighborhood of Ravenna Township, Ohio.

51³Ô¹ÏÍø Named to 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

51³Ô¹ÏÍø has been named to the 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, which is the highest federal recognition an institution can receive for its commitment to community, service-learning and civic engagement.  The Corporation for National and Community …

Tags: Office of Experiential Education and Civic Engagement , University College , Student Success , Success Story , Community & Society

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