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�Ը������� University at Trumbull proudly announces Diane Sauer, president and owner of Diane Sauer Chevrolet, Inc., as its 2018 Spring Commencement speaker. The university expects a large turnout from its more than 200 graduating students. The ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 12 at 6 p.m. in Packard Music Hall, 1703 Mahoning Ave. in Warren.   Sauer was born and raised in Coldwater, Ohio and graduated from Coldwater High School.  She went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a minor in Finance from The Ohio State University.     In 1976, ...

�Ը������� biology student rescues excess food for educational feast Imagine planning a dinner party for 500 of your closest friends and not knowing what you will serve until almost the last minute. It might sound stressful, but for Erin Shattuck it is a privilege. Ms. Shattuck is passionate about using every last morsel of food to prevent waste. She is even more passionate about telling and teaching others to do the same.    On April 15, Ms. Shattuck will host the first �Ը������� University Feed the 500, an educational awareness feast designed to draw attention to the...

M.L. Schultze named Reporter of the Year WKSU staff was honored with 11 awards from the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors (OAPME) in a ceremony held March 24 in Columbus, Ohio. Top honors went to WKSU for General Excellence – Radio, the fourth consecutive year the newsroom earned the acknowledgement. The OAPME Awards reflect standout work created in 2017. WKSU Reporter/Digital Editor M.L. Schultze came away the big winner of the OAPME Awards event with four first-place awards – more than any other broadcast journalist in the 2017 contest – including Best Reporter. Ms. Schultze was hono...

Each year, hundreds of �Ը������� University Golden Flashes gather across the globe to make a difference in their communities. �Ը������� alumni and friends have the opportunity to participate in the 10th annual Alumni Day of Service on Saturday, April 21. Sponsored by the �Ը������� Alumni Association, Alumni Day of Service provides opportunities for �Ը������� alumni, friends and family to give back by participating in local volunteer projects while strengthening ties with fellow members of the �Ը������� community. “I love the opportunity to give back to the community and work with fe...

Students will find no better time to consider studying abroad than “now.” Yet most students find the prospect of studying abroad a daunting challenge fraught with many uncertainties. Amber Cruxton, the Associate Director of Education Abroad within the university’s Office of Global Education, advises students otherwise. “For those students who want to study abroad but are anxious about being on their own,” she explains, “I direct them towards our Florence Center. It helps if students look at it like just another �Ը������� regional campus. But one that is located in Florence, Italy. You’ll be t...

A series of paintings by local artist Peggy Albert Mangano will be featured in an exhibit at the �Ը������� East Liverpool Art Gallery, located in the Mary Patterson Building. Titled “Flowers by Peggy,” the show opens with a reception on Thursday, April 12, beginning at 5:30 p.m. A highlight of the reception will be the unveiling of a painting that she is donating to the permanent art collection at �Ը������� East Liverpool. The featured work is called “Wild Irish Rose.”  Mangano was born and raised in Nebraska and graduated high school in Seattle, Wash.  She was trained as an educ...

March 24: Dr. Anne Jefferson, an assistant professor in the Geology Department at �Ը�������, and her team have been asked by the National Parks Service to investigate why trees won’t grow on National Park land in NE Ohio which are on top of old mining sites.  Forest surrounds these places, but new plantings are not succeeding.  The Parks Service gave �Ը������� a chance to do long term research at these sites which will help not just locally, but nationally and beyond. Read Road salt choking ecosystems and contaminating water Visit Dr. Anne Jefferson's Watershed...

Daniel Grossman, Ph.D., an award-winning journalist and radio/web producer with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, visited �Ը������� University recently to share his professional experiences with students, faculty and community members. Grossman was one of three panelists who spoke at the �Ը������� School of Communication Studies (COMM) Spring 2018 Global Issues Forum titled, “Advancing Understanding of Climate Change: The Role of Science and Global Communication.” With a Ph.D. in political science and a Bachelor of Science in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (...

Entrepreneurship takes many forms. It can take advantage of new technology or a new way of using old technology. In some cases, it combines new and old to create something entirely new. In Javon Miller’s case, his business was created by combining a new hobby with a tool that humans have used for centuries.   “Bovazi is a handcrafted pen and pencil company that I started in January 2017 as a senior in high school,” says Mr. Miller, a freshman psychology major. “I hand carve and assemble luxury pens from different materials.”   Made from wood and acrylic, Bovazi pens and pencils co...

A recent publication by �Ը������� geographers sheds more light on the causes of the Cambodian genocide that wiped out roughly a quarter of the country’s population in the late 1970s. Co-authored with �Ը������� geography professor James Tyner in �Ը�������’s College of Arts and Sciences, doctoral student Stian Rice’s article “The rice cities of the Khmer Rouge: an urban political ecology of rural mass violence” was published in the December issue of Transactions of the institute of British Geographers.  The article counters a common belief among scholars that the Khmer Rouge were anti-...