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On Sunday, Brittany Rohner was supposed to be on campus with her fellow graduate students as they celebrated the successful completion of their degrees. Instead, she was in Akron City Hospital, celebrating her graduation with the hospital’s nursing staff, her husband, family and most importantly, he...

In her first year on campus, Sara Zargham already is making history as the first woman from ���ϳԹ��� to compete in the singles portion of the NCAA Division III Tennis Championship. The 32-player championship tournament runs May 23-25, at Stowe Stadium in Kalamazoo, Mich., wit...

Last year, a group of ���ϳԹ��� students made headlines with Hole Patch, their innovative approach to fixing potholes using a bag filled with a secret recipe of non-Newtonian fluid. As a co-founder of the award-winning startup, junior Mayank Saksena played a major role in the c...

For Mary Grimm, writing is all about creativity. An associate professor of English, she teaches courses that demand imagination: fiction writing, urban fantasy, graphic novel, science fiction, and contemporary American literature. But her favorite to teach is the aptly named creative writing course,...

Thirty years ago, just a few miles down the road, Michael Scharf served as captain of the Shaker Heights High School debate team. The topic was American foreign policy. Immediately, his interest was piqued. That interest has remained ever since. Scharf went on to Duke University, where he was the s...

Last fall, Distinguished University Professor Richard Boyatzis was named one of the top 10 influential thinkers around the globe. This spring, he will share his insight with the world when his massive open online course, or MOOC, launches May 1. More than 50,000 people—and counting—have signed up f...

Leadership, friendship and service. They’re the three tenets of Alpha Phi Omega—and also three of the words its president, junior Katie Paul, lives by. As president of the ���ϳԹ��� chapter of the national co-ed service fraternity, Paul has expanded her leadership skills, help...

When Jim Edmonson accepted the position as curator of the Dittrick Museum of Medical History, he thought his stint would be short-lived—two years, tops. That was 1981. Today, Edmonson still reigns over the museum, which he’s helped grow from a doctors’ museum to a more universal health and medicine...

When people hear the term “cancer research,” they might think cures, genes or even prevention. Mary Step’s studies take a different route. As an assistant professor of family medicine and community health, she studies the communication between cancer patients and their physicians. And as the honora...

March Madness has begun, and there’s one person on campus who knows exactly what that excitement is like. Chris Masotti, vice dean for finance and administration at the School of Medicine, played for the Villanova Wildcats from 1987 to 1991 and played in the NCAA Tournament three of those four years...