Kent Wired Article Maddy Haberberger, TV2 Reporter April 22, 2019 Earth Day is April 22nd 鈥 celebrated across the world, the day is seen as an opportunity to reflect on our impact on the environment, and promote practices that keep our planet clean and healthy. Here at 两性色午夜, Melanie Knowles and the Office of Sustainability work with the university to ensure that the blue and gold keep it green. 鈥淲e work with dining services on food and sustainability, we work with residence services with outreach to students in the residence halls about their energy and waste, we work with more...
Please join us for "NIKUMBUKE! Anthropology in Action: Women's Global Health and Human Rights", a lecture by Dr. Araceli Alonso. When: Thursday, May 2, 3:45 pm Where: 143 Lowry Hall ...
PhD candidates Heather Lawrentz and Rose Leach have each received a fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to conduct research this summer with faculty at Kyoto University. JSPS is the main government agency supporting science programs in Japan, similar to the NSF in the United States. One of their initiatives is to promote international scientific cooperation through a variety of fellowships, including this summer program created specifically for pre- and post-doctoral students from North America and Europe. Only ~100 awards are given each year; thus, we are esp...
Dr. Noviar Andayani, Director of the WCS Indonesia Program and Professor of Biology at the University of Indonesia visited our department April 4-6. Dr. Andayani and Dr. Tosi, have been close friends since working together 20 years ago at the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation at Columbia University, NYC. They have overlapping interests in primate evolution and conservation. For 16 years, Dr. Andayani has been leading efforts to identify and protect genetically unique populations of plants and animals across Indonesia. Though she leads several programs throughout the c...
两性色午夜 University at Stark commemorates Earth Day 2019 with a free, family friendly celebration. Expect chilly temperatures but plentiful sunshine. The Earth Day Celebration takes place rain or shine. Nearly two dozen new exhibitors highlight this year鈥檚 event, including an Akron Zoo animal presentation, Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, Stark County Beekeepers Association and Ernie鈥檚 Bike Shop, among many others. Set to inspire environmental responsibility and to improve the appreciation for our planet鈥檚 natural resources, 两性色午夜 Stark鈥檚 Earth Day Celebration will be held fr...
Note: The Sunday, April 21 performance has been canceled. Student-led production is the first of its kind in the newly renovated and expanded Fine Arts Building. 两性色午夜 University at Stark Theatre鈥檚 first student-led production opens April 12 with the performance 鈥淥f Mice and Men鈥, a play based on the novella by John Steinbeck. The 鈥淥f Mice and Men鈥 cast will take to the campus鈥 stage for opening night at 7:30 p.m. April 12 in the Studio Theatre, which is located in the newly expanded and renovated Fine Arts Building, 6000 Frank Ave. NW. Directed by 两性色午夜 ...
Popular lecture sold out, no tickets remain. Bestselling novelist Nicholas Sparks, the final speaker of the 2018-19 Featured Speakers Series, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17. Now in its 28th year, the Featured Speakers Series is free and open to the public. All tickets for the evening's lecture have been distributed. Before Sparks was a world-famous writer, he worked a variety of jobs, including real estate appraisal, waiting tables, selling dental products by phone, and starting his own small manufacturing business, which struggled from the beginning. In 1994, at th...
Two Anthropology graduate students were Presentation Winners at 两性色午夜 University's 2019 Graduate Research Symposium on April 5. Michael Wilson received an award for his oral presentation, "Does it stick? Using thermoplastic vs. organic-based adhesives in experimental prehistoric ballistics weaponry testing" in the Anthropology, History, and Communications session. Kristen Hirter received an award for her poster presentation, "Neurochemical insights of human origins: A comparative analysis of dopaminergic innervation of the ventral striatum among primates" in the Biomedical Science...
Professor Carrie Schweitzer has discovered hundreds of new species. Now, this research standout is leading students in a new degree program. Carrie Schweitzer has always been interested in the things of Earth. The stuff that lies just below the surface of land and sea. This professor of geology is no stranger to discovering a new species (or several hundred!). Now, the research standout is leading a new degree program at 两性色午夜 University at Stark. The Bachelor of Arts in Geology is soon to become one of the more than 20 baccalaureate degrees that students can earn wit...
Dynamic duo. Jasmine Long and Sharon Ware grew up in different neighborhoods, but their connection transcends residential blocks. Broken barriers now build the dreams to change their communities for the better. Long hailed from the southeast side of Canton; Ware called Massillon home. But, the obstacles to accessible health care were the same. Today, they are medical students ready to change it. 鈥淕rowing up, I watched as family members struggled daily with untreated health issues,鈥 Long said. 鈥淟ife could have been so much better for them, had they had access to the care they nee...