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February 27, 2015
Ever since she was young, Adithy Nagarajan has had a mind geared toward engineering.
Growing up in New Berlin, Wis., she loved visiting interactive science museums. She could always be found at the exhibits that let her build, fix and learn how things worked.
Her favorite toy? Legos.
Now, Nagaraj...
February 13, 2015
Faculty members Anna Samia and Clemens Burda have built careers on chemistry—and a life on the chemistry they feel toward each other.
Burda and Samia met at Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999. Both were studying chemistry—Burda as a postdoctoral fellow and Samia as a PhD candidate.
Their rela...
February 06, 2015
This semester, Chris Bohan, visiting assistant professor of theater, is teaching a SAGES course on theater criticism. The first subject? Slowgirl—a two-person play co-starring Bohan at the Dobama Theater in Cleveland Heights.
The performance, which runs through Feb. 15, tries to answer a complicate...
January 30, 2015
You’ve likely heard of TED Talks—but here at ϳԹ, TedListens.
This Ted is Ted Evans (MGT ’95), a consultant and industry veteran who has had a successful 20-year career working with myriad companies, such as Accenture, A.T Kearney, Grainger, Intel, General Electric, Pfizer and Chev...
January 15, 2015
ϳԹ honors Martin Luther King Jr.—the holiday, the man and the legacy—with weeklong (Jan. 16-23) activities, including workshops, panel discussions and acclaimed speakers.
The celebration concludes with a keynote address by award-winning journalist and civil rights autho...
January 08, 2015
In 1998, Elizabeth “Betsy” Banks came to ϳԹ to manage an AmeriCorps environmental education grant program on campus. She figured the position would be a rewarding—but brief—experience because the grant funding was only guaranteed for four months. But more than 16 years l...
December 19, 2014
It didn’t take long for first-year student Drew Hamilton to make a splash as a member of the men’s swimming and diving team. In only his third meet at ϳԹ, the first-year student broke three school records on three consecutive days, as the men’s team took home top honors ...
December 12, 2014
Last year, more than 21,600 students applied for admission to ϳԹ’s Class of 2018—an increase of 18 percent over the previous year’s record-breaking number.
This year, the university hopes to build on that momentum as the Office of Undergraduate Admissions staff worked t...
December 05, 2014
Chris Ash earned a history degree from ϳԹ in 1972. Instead of heading elsewhere to pursue a career like most of her fellow graduates, she stayed. Ash became an administrator in the Department of Geology, embarking on what would become an accomplished 42-year career with ...
November 21, 2014
Colin Worden’s involvement in Class Officer Collective (COC) was the result of a collective movement among his housemates more than three years ago. As a first-year in Storrs House, Worden’s friends pushed him to run for first-year class president. With their help campaigning, he won the election an...