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May 26, 2017
Throughout May, organizations and individuals across the country have celebrated Mental Health Awareness Month to raise awareness for and reduce the stigma of mental illnesses. Though the month is coming to a close, mental-health awareness initiatives and services are ongoing at ϳԹ...

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May 05, 2017
M.C. “Terry” Hokenstad to retire after nearly a half-century of scholarship, service and leadership at Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
It’s only fitting that trinkets of owls—a universal symbol of wisdom—adorn the office of M.C. “Terry” Hokenstad, a social-work pione...

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April 27, 2017
When Taneisha Deans was growing up in Glenville, she thought of an engineer as someone who repaired cars or other large equipment.
But then she became part of ϳԹ’s Envoys program, and learned that the discipline included such fields as computer science, chemical engineering and ev...

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April 14, 2017
This week, a group of hunger- and food-related organizations on campus—dubbed the Food and Water Collaborative—came together to host Food Week at ϳԹ. Through a weeklong schedule of events, they aimed to explore the inequalities in food production and distribution, and ho...

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April 06, 2017
Last summer, Owen Gibson jumped off a bridge while his friends stood by, filming his fall.
For the electrical engineering student, splashing safely into the upstate Wisconsin waterway below did not represent a successful stunt for social media or the meeting of a dangerous dare, but rather a direct...

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March 31, 2017
Last year, the university’s Center for Civic Engagement & Learning (CCEL) spearheaded a host of nonpartisan initiatives to shake loose apathy and encourage more students to participate in the political process. Among them: voter registration, voter education and collaborations with various campus st...

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March 23, 2017
Before arriving for her first year as a ϳԹ student in the fall of 2015, Ellen Kendall had never seen a line of code. Her all-girls high school in Northern Kentucky didn’t offer computer science courses, so she had never even considered it as a potential career choice.
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March 17, 2017
Everyone has his or her “thing.” For Gabriella Kaddu, a sophomore pre-med student studying biochemistry and sociology, that “thing” is volunteering.
Gabriella Kaddu (second from right) poses for a photo with other ϳԹ student volunteers.
Despite little experience with community service before co...

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March 10, 2017
When sports fans in Northeast Ohio were on edge through the Cleveland Cavaliers’ championship run last June, second-year medical student Ann Xing was right along with them—in the front row.
Xing reported on the Cavs through the 2015-16 season for the popular Chinese TV network LeSports, and travele...

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March 03, 2017
Preparing to participate in a single Model United Nations competition can take upward of 40 hours of work. But planning a conference—in addition to being a full-time student (and a double major, no less)? That takes months.
Siddharth Hariharan, a sophomore majoring in political science and biochemi...