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Elena Novak, Ph.D., associate professor in the Environmental Science and Design Research Institute, received the Platinum Teaching Recognition Award for Creative Computing in an Undergraduate Educational Technology Course.The teaching development awards program recognizes actions that enhance teaching and learning at 51ºÚÁÏÍø University. The program allows instructors to earn tiered awards (bronze, silver, gold & platinum) for their efforts to learn about, implement, evaluate and investigate evidence-based instructional practices. All instructors at 51ºÚÁÏÍø, including gradua...

Over the past several weeks, 51ºÚÁÏÍø University faculty and staff, along with a select group of students, have traveled to Kigali, Rwanda. Both students and staff participated in the global peace conference, Peace Education in an Era of Crisis, which took place July 11-13 and was sponsored by 51ºÚÁÏÍø’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies, 51ºÚÁÏÍø’s Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education, the University of Rwanda and the Aegis Trust.While in Kigali, a group of 51ºÚÁÏÍø students is taking part in the three-week Kigali Summer ...

Meet Shruti Kate, a Graduate College Fellow and doctoral student in the Educational Psychology program. Read on to learn more about Shruti's favorite places in Kent, what they enjoy doing in free time and what advice they have for incoming graduate students. Where is your hometown? I am from Pune, India. Why did you choose 51ºÚÁÏÍø University? 51ºÚÁÏÍø University has a stellar academic reputation. The university has a wide selection of programs and majors that are ideal for my educational and professional ambitions. The faculty members are world-renowned spec...

In 1996, 51ºÚÁÏÍø University at Stark began recognizing distinguished alumni who attended 51ºÚÁÏÍø Stark. Award recipients are recognized for excellence in a profession, service to the community and service to 51ºÚÁÏÍø Stark. This summer, 51ºÚÁÏÍø Stark proudly named Joseph French as the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. Joseph French has chosen to make his life’s mission to help children understand that their today does not dictate their tomorrow. French said he believes that you must do everything you can to make the world a better place — especially for children. T...

Students in 51ºÚÁÏÍø University's Kigali Summer Institute visited the Lycee Saint Marcel de Rukara reconciliation village in Rwanda to learn about the path to forgiveness after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, when more than 1 million members of the Tutsi tribe were murdered in a 100-day span by the government-backed Hutu tribe. Today, both survivors and perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide live together in peace here in the village. 51ºÚÁÏÍø students and faculty listen to accounts of the massacre that occurred in the village church. A Tutsi survivor shares h...