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By immersing themselves deeply in the local culture, students participating in a study abroad program can greatly enhance their overseas experience, personally as well as academically. Understandably, some students are more adept at the immersion process than others – a fact that led the staff at 51������’s Florence Center in Italy to implement a competition among students beginning this spring semester to encourage them to make immersion a rewarding part of their studies. The competition, which is the brainchild of Andy Wyatt, a student advisor at Florence and a former study abroad ...

April 1:  Dr. Robin Selinger is a professor of Chemical Physics in 51������’s Liquid Crystal Institute and a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). She will discuss her research in the area of active matter.     Modeling Defects, Shape Evolution, and Programmed Auto-Origami in Liquid Crystal Elastomers  Active Matter Computer Simulation  Liquid Crystal Institute ...

51������ University is among the institutions and businesses in Ohio to share $10 million in grants from the state’s Third Frontier Commission. 51������ will share $400,000 with Cleveland State University to help commercialize the inventions that they create through research. The grants are used to give a boost to the state’s economy through startup and other technology companies Learn more from WKSU Learn more from the Akron Beacon Journal ...

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In Ohio, most seventh graders are learning earth and space science, physical science and life science in a middle school classroom. While peers are learning about Earth’s oceanic currents and the periodic table, Jameson Payne attends 51������ University’s Regional Academic Center in Twinsburg, taking Molecules of Life, Seven Ideas That Shook the Universe and General Chemistry I. At age 12, Payne is earning college credits through the College Credit Plus program. He is one of 1,977 students across the 51������ system earning college credits while simultaneously attending a secondary school...

Joshua Looser, a junior entrepreneurship major in 51������ University's College of Business Administration, received the Red Cross Acts of Courage Award on March 2 after successfully performing the Heimlich maneuver on a woman who was choking last year. In March 2016, Looser was walking around the building during his shift at Swensons when he noticed someone sitting in a car, and something seemed off. “Something was weird,” Looser says. “She opened the door slightly and then stopped, so I ran over and asked if she was okay, and she didn’t answer.” Realizing she was choking, Loo...

What better way can 51������ University alumni make a difference in their community than by volunteering with fellow Golden Flashes? The 51������ Alumni Association is hosting the ninth annual Alumni Day of Service on Saturday, April 29, encouraging alumni worldwide to make a difference in their local communities. Participants can choose from more than 25 domestic and international volunteer sites.   Alumni Association Assistant Director of Outreach Lisa Mascellino, ’94, says that the purpose of Alumni Day of Service is to bring 51������ alumni together, volunteerin...

New rankings released by U.S. News & World Report (March 14) place 51������ University’s School of Library and Information Science (iSchool) among the nation’s top 20 graduate programs in library and information science – again. Kendra S. Albright, Ph.D., who became director of the iSchool in July 2016, acknowledged the program’s rigorous academic standards and renowned faculty as key factors in the strong ranking. “Current and future students should be confident that they will receive a relevant, leading-edge education,” Albright said. “51������’s iSchool has an international re...