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Late Night at the Library "GLOW"

The University Library held a "Late Night at the Libary" event to welcome students and introduce new students to library resources. 

College of Communication & Information
Ben Vrobel

Esports has transformed online gaming into a spectator sport — and a projects the industry will be worth $3.5 billion by 2025.

Portrait of Tang Tang in office

As the world’s attention turns to the Olympic Games for the second time in 12 months, Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ Professor Tang Tang’s research offers insight on how audience patterns of viewing major sporting events have changed over the last 12 years. Tang, Ph.D., joined Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University in 2018 as the College of Communication and Information sought to hire in the area of new media technology. 

Members of the Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University Esports team compete in the finals of a League of Legends tournament held at Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹.

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. Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University is among the 12 founding members of the new esports conference. 

Students De-stress with Dogs on Campus Pet Therapy Program.

What could be better to reduce end-of-semester stress than petting a dog? How about petting multiple dogs and digitally dunking with LeBron through esports? This year’s Stress-Free Zone, which is from 3-5 p.m. on Dec. 9 and 10, will be hosted on the first floor of University Library and will feature esports, therapy dogs, makerspace activities and more.

Members of the Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University Esports team participate in a competition held in the university’s Memorial Athletic and Convocation (MAC) Center.

Cavs Legion Gaming Club (GC), the NBA 2K League affiliate of the Cleveland Cavaliers, has teamed up with Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University Esports in a unique new partnership designed to help grow and strengthen the local gaming community in Northeast Ohio, as well as promote the university’s newly launched collegiate esports program.