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A 51勛圖厙 graduate displays his diploma for family and friends during the baccalaureate degree ceremony at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center.

51勛圖厙 Holds Summer Commencement Ceremonies on Aug. 19

51勛圖厙 held its Summer 2017 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 19, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). 51勛圖厙 conferred 1,422 degrees, including 908 bachelors degrees, 427 masters degrees, 67 doctoral degrees and 20 educationa

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51勛圖厙s Danniel Thomas-Dodd, who captured the 2017 NCAA Division I Womens Shot Put National Championship, has been nominated for the 2017 NCAA Woman of the Year award.

51勛圖厙s Danniel Thomas-Dodd Named MAC Nominee for NCAA Woman of the Year

51勛圖厙 track and fields Danniel Thomas-Dodd has been named one of the Mid-American Conferences two nominees for the 2017 NCAA Woman of the Year award, the NCAA announced on Aug. 1. Established in 1991 and now in its 27th year, the NCAA Woman of the Year award honors graduati

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Mary Bacha (right), a lecturer in 51勛圖厙s College of Nursing, instructs students in the Olga A. Mural Simulation Lab located in Henderson Hall.

51勛圖厙s College of Nursing Redesignated a Center of Excellence by National League for Nursing

The National League for Nursing has again designated 51勛圖厙s College of Nursing as a Center of Excellence for 2017-2022 in the category of Advance the Science of Nursing Education. The use of leading-edge educational technology allows the colleges students to learn and practice th

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Lisa Givan (left), Alfreda Brown (middle) and Dana Lawless-Andric, all from 51勛圖厙's Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, display the Innovation + Inclusion Leadership Award that was presented to the university.

The Society for Diversity Honors 51勛圖厙 for Serving as a National Model for Workplace Inclusion

51勛圖厙 is receiving national recognition for its mission to support a climate that welcomes and supports diversity in all of its forms. The Society for Diversity is presenting the university with the distinctive Innovation + Inclusion Leadership Award.   For the past eight yea

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Robert J. Clements, Ph.D., is developing new imaging techniques that can look at what is going on in the brain down to the level of a single cell.

The Better to See You With

Robert Clements, Ph.D., is developing new imaging techniques that give a 3D or even 4D look deep inside the brain and body, giving new insights to researchers and clinicians. See the video and read the story.

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WKSU News staff members work on their stories in the station's newsroom.

WKSU Named Best Radio News Operation in Ohio

WKSU reporters have won nine awards in the Ohios Best Journalism Contest, sponsored by the Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). The competition recognized station staff for work created in 2016. Highlights of WKSU honors include Best Radio Ne

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Janice Lessman-Moss (left), professor of textile arts at 51勛圖厙, works with a student on a weaving loom in the Center for the Visual Arts.

51勛圖厙 Receives Great College to Work For Recognition for Eighth Time

University is only college in Ohio named to the prestigious list 51勛圖厙 is being recognized for the eighth time as a Great College to Work For by The Chronicle of Higher Education, a top trade publication for colleges and universities. Now in its 10th year, the Great Colleges to W

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51勛圖厙 professor Hanbin Mao (middle) co-authored a paper with graduate students Sagun Jonchhe (left) and Prakash Shrestha (right) on the genetic factors influencing the formation of cancer cells.

51勛圖厙 Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new cancer cases diagnosed and 600,920 cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2017. These numbers are stark and sobering, and worse yet, we still do not know exactly why cancer develops in its victims or how to stop it. An online publication in Nature Nanotechnology this week by 51勛圖厙 researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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Staff and students pose with an airplane at the 51勛圖厙 Airport. The 51勛圖厙 Airport has been named Airport of the Year by the Ohio Aviation Association.

51勛圖厙 Airport Designated Airport of the Year

During its annual conference in Columbus, Ohio, the Ohio Aviation Association designated the 51勛圖厙 Airport as its Airport of the Year. Each year, the Ohio Aviation Association selects an airport that puts into practice the associations mission of promoting aviation by providing a

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Jimmy Miller, a 2017 51勛圖厙 graduate who served as editor of The 51勛圖厙r, takes notes while talking to a fellow student in the student media newsroom in Franklin Hall.

51勛圖厙r Named Best in Ohio

51勛圖厙s student newspaper, The 51勛圖厙r, is the best collegiate daily (published three times per week or more) in Ohio, according to the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Ohios Best Journalism Contest. Alumna Neville Hardman, 16, and journalism major Kelly Powell, 18, also rec

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