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�Ը�� Student Recognized as ARI-AHEC’s 2024 Scholar of the Year

Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 12:00pm

Meet Elizabeth Marhefka, a �Ը�� University biology and premed student whose exceptional dedication to community service and academic excellence has earned her the prestigious 2024 Scholar of the Year Award from the Akron Regional Interprofessional-Area Health Education…

Anthony Claytor raises his diploma during his Commencement ceremony at �Ը�� University.

Meet Anthony Claytor, the First I PROMISE Program Scholar to Graduate From �Ը��

Monday, June 3, 2024 - 07:12am

In 2020, �Ը�� University President Todd Diacon announced to a group of high school juniors and their families that �Ը�� would cover four years of tuition costs and one year of room and board. Now, for the LeBron James Family Foundation’s first I PROMISE class, the…

Online map depicting decomposition rates in rivers on a global scale – These maps are hosted on a server at �Ը��.

Researchers map aquatic-based, human-driven impacts on climate change

Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 03:28pm

From left to right: Mandy Munro-Stasiuk, Char Factor, President Todd Diacon, Chaya Kessler, Erika Gold and Sol Factor

Honoring Retiring Director Kessler and Celebrating 50 Years of Jewish Studies

Friday, May 24, 2024 - 10:07am

On the evening of May 16, �Ը�� University celebrated and honored the career of Senior Lecturer Chaya Kessler, the retiring director of �Ը��’s Jewish Studies Program (JSP), with a special event held at the �Ը��…

Roger Mac Ginty gives his remarks at the open house of the School of Peace and Conflict Studies renovated space on March 20, 2024

Author of Everyday Peace Visits �Ը��; Reflects on May 4 and School of Peace and Conflict Studies

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 04:13pm

Roger Mac Ginty, Ph.D., Professor in Defense, Development & Diplomacy at Durham University (UK), recently visited �Ը�� University as an invited colloquium speaker of the School of Peace and Conflict Studies. On March 12, Mac Ginty gave a presentation titled “Two Cheers…

Emeritus Professor Vera Camden (left) and Valentino Zullo (right)

�Ը�� Emerita English Professor Wins APsaA Prize Highlighting Literature in Psychoanalysis

Friday, April 26, 2024 - 05:08pm

Vera J. Camden, emerita professor of English at �Ը�� University, has posed a few questions for academia upon receiving a national award for her edited book. Should the sciences intertwine with literature and…

Two students conversing on a stairs with a banner celebrating 35 years of translation at �Ը��

Translation Studies Program Set to Celebrate 35 Years of Success

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 - 03:35pm

�Ը�� University’s Translation Studies program will be celebrating its 35th anniversary on April 12-13 and the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies with a full schedule of festivities and programming for its students, faculty, and alumni.

Image 5: Clovis fluted points hafted onto wooden handles by Michael Wilson. (Images credit: Metin I. Eren)

Experimental collaboration between archaeologists and MeatEater highlights the prevalence of equifinality in archaeological interpretation

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 - 09:00am

�Ը�� University’s experimental archaeologists, along with those from several other universities, joined forces with the popular hunting, outdoors, and conservation media platform, , for a unique animal processing…

Beyond the Eclipse: A Cosmic Conversation with �Ը�� Alumna Beth A. Cunningham

Monday, March 25, 2024 - 05:23pm

Join Beth A. Cunningham, Ph.D., a distinguished physicist and �Ը�� University alumna, as she unravels the mysteries of the cosmos and shares her insights on the latest in space exploration and the scientific wonders of solar eclipses. Ahead of her highly anticipated…

Mazel Tov! -- �Ը�� to Honor Retiring Jewish Studies Director as Program Reaches Half Century Mark

Friday, March 22, 2024 - 03:00pm

What does it mean to be Jewish in the modern world? This is the philosophical question that Senior Lecturer Chaya Kessler, the esteemed retiring director of �Ը�� University’s Jewish Studies Program (JSP), has woven into…

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