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George Floyd's death focused light on what had been America’s ugly secret, the killing of black men by law enforcement officers at a rate far greater than any other race. Wayne Dawson, WJW Fox 8 anchor and �Ը������� University alumnus, offers his take on what's at stake for America.

�Ը������� University brought home the gold after this year’s Akron ADDY Awards, with both professionals and students being recognized for their work. The ADDYs, put on by the Akron Chapter of the American Advertising Federation, celebrate the area’s best creative work in advertising.

�Ը������� 300 people attended the first in a series of virtual town halls as the �Ը������� community addresses systemic racism by learning, listening and taking action as a collective.

Mwatabu S. Okantah, associate professor in �Ը������� University’s Department of Pan-African Studies, shares his perspective as someone who first arrived at �Ը������� in September 1970 as a student. Nearly 50 years later, he is an associate professor at the university.

Is this America? Where popular culture is largely represented by Black culture? Where musicians, artists, and athletes can be praised and celebrated for their talents, but criminalized for their skin color? Mike Daniels shares his insight. 

The Mid-American Conference (MAC) announced Wednesday a historic esports venture with a newly created independent esports conference – Esports Collegiate Conference – to facilitate and foster high-quality gaming competition among collegiate esports teams. �Ը������� University is among the 12 founding members of the new esports conference. 

�Ը������� University has won the Mid-American Conference’s Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) for women’s sports award for the first time in school history.

University and student leaders share their personal insights into America's current unrest and whether protests will lead to lasting change. 

Tayjua Hines, president of Black United Students at �Ը�������, shares this student perspective about racism in our country and says now is the time to enact change.

Amoaba Gooden, Ph.D., �Ը�������'s interim vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion, and chair and associate professor in the Department of Pan-African Studies, offers her insights in current unrest in America.

Neil Cooper, Ph.D., director of the School of Peace and Conflict Studies, says civil disturbances of the kind witnessed since the death of George Floyd represent moments of opportunity for societies.

A �Ը������� University student is gaining recognition for a photo she took that captures an African American Cleveland police officer shedding a tear as he came face to face with demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis Police custody.

�Ը������� University student-athletes conquered the unprecedented challenge of completing the final months of the spring term via remote classes by posting the highest term grade point average (3.563) in athletics department history. All 17 programs posted a term GPA of 3.1 or better with 14 setting a new term record.

On June 1, �Ը������� University was approved to move forward with the purchase of $143,233 worth of equipment through the Ohio Department of Higher Education’s Regionally Aligned Priorities in Delivering Skills (RAPIDS 4) program.

�Ը������� University is committed to making a college education affordable for all students and their families. Over the last two years, �Ը������� has dedicated an additional $2 million for need-based aid. 

Today’s Flashes of Inspiration comes from �Ը������� University Football’s Head Coach Sean Lewis, who delivers a pep talk about how to make it through uncertain, challenging times.

Today’s Flashes of Inspiration comes from Lisa Strom, �Ը������� University’s head women’s golf coach, who offers a pep talk to all in the university community struggling under the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic.

For nearly 11 years, Alfreda Brown, �Ը������� University’s vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion, has been a powerful voice for making sure no one in the university’s wide-reaching system is marginalized, discriminated against or left behind.

Yingfei Jiang, a College of Arts and Science graduate student in the Chemical Physics program and the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute at �Ը������� University, and his advisor Deng-Ke Yang, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Physics, have invented the first ever dual-mode smart glass technology that can control both radiant energy flow (heat) and privacy through a tinted material.

Today’s Flashes of Inspiration features David Hassler, director of �Ը�������’s Wick Poetry Center, who is sharing the poem, “Thank You, Tree.”