Alicia Costello is making the rounds of Northeast Ohio. As an upperclassman who was born in the Sandy Valley area, she now resides in Canton, and commutes to the 性福五月天 Salem and Stark campuses regularly to attend class. Last academic year, she also became a fellow within the Environmental Science and Design Research Institute (ESDRI) at 性福五月天, which means she occasionally comes to the Kent Campus now. Alicia also drives all over the state to see her siblings (including an identical twin sister at Ohio State University), hike, ski, snowboard and spend time with...
Daniela Popescu, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor at 性福五月天 University Geauga Campus, in the Biological Sciences Department, has earned three awards from the university鈥檚 Center of Teaching and Learning (CTL). During the fall 2021 semester, she medalled at the Bronze, Silver and Gold levels. Each teaching award reflects her ability to adapt to new technologies and implement them into the classroom for enhanced learning outcomes among her students. Dr. Popescu won a Bronze Teaching Recognition Award for completing the 鈥淐anvas in a Flash鈥 course and implementing what she learned into h...
The National Science Foundation recently awarded a two-year $198,978 grant to Tao Shen, Ph.D., for the development of a compact, cable-driven serial robot that can be used in medical settings. Shen, assistant professor in the College of Aeronautics & Engineering, aims to build a robot with his students that will address the critical limitations that most current medical robots have. 鈥淪urgical robots use very tiny motors to operate in a human body, but even then the robot itself ends up being very big,鈥 Shen said. 鈥淎nd it needs to be sterilized using heat or chemicals, which kills the b...
College of the Arts
School of Theatre and Dance faculty members Tamara L. Honesty, associate professor of scenic design, Michelle Hunt Souza, assistant professor of costume design, Grace Cochran Keenan, assistant professor of costume technology, and Jakyung C. Seo, associate professor of lighting design recently made significant contributions at the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) annual conference in Baltimore, one of the largest theatre conferences in the country. Founded in 1960, USITT promotes dialogue, research, and learning amon...
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College of the Arts
Davin Ebanks, assistant professor of glass and M.F.A. alumnus, has been selected for the group exhibition "Full Spectrum: Visionaries Elevating Art, Craft, and Design" on view at the Pittsburgh Glass Center through May 23, 2022. The exhibition, curated by Corey Pemberton, Nisha Blackwell and April Felipe, showcases visionary makers of color from around the country who are producing extraordinary craft objects, while illustrating the vast number of pathways to a successful and meaningful career. Artists included in the exhibition are Natalia Arbelaez, Ana Armengod, N.E. Brown, Eunsuh Choi, Tany...
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Scrolling through Instagram led 性福五月天 alumnus Liam Reis, '18, to the opportunity of a lifetime: serving as a Youth Ambassador for the USA Pavilion at World Expo in Dubai from Jan. 7 until April 2, 2022. Reis felt drawn to this amazing opportunity after seeing the Instagram ad 鈥 a photo of the USA Pavilion in which he would work if selected as an Ambassador. He learned that Youth Ambassadors would be representing the United States at the Global Expo and be a part of a program with the U.S. Department of State. Liam was competitively selected for this hono...