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  The Spring 2026 Nursing Job and Career Fair on March 23 welcomed 20 hospital and healthcare facilities from around Northeast Ohio and beyond to meet with students from 51����'s College of Nursing.    51���� 200 nursing students came to the event in Henderson Hall on the Kent Campus and explored opportunities for job placements and summer internships.   Special thanks to Mariah Gibbons, marketing and public relations communication specialist, 51���� College of Nursing for sharing these photos.Want to see YOUR photos in ...

When David Jones graduated from 51���� at Ashtabula in December 2022 with a degree in information technology and computer networking, his career plans were straightforward. He expected to work in IT building systems, managing networks and solving technical problems behind the scenes.But just weeks later, he applied for a position that most outside observers would have predicted: executive director of the Conneaut Arts Center.By early 2023, Jones was hired to lead the nonprofit arts organization, located in a 127‑year‑old historic building along Lake Erie. The Arts Center, which ...

Psychological Sciences Professor Karin Coifman, Ph.D., has been named the new director of 51����’s Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI).Coifman, who is bringing her years of expertise as one of the university’s top researchers to her new role, told 51���� Today that she was grateful for her new role and excited about the institute’s future.“I look forward to serving all BHRI members and the broader 51���� research community to meet the primary mission of the institute: to support and to drive interdisciplinary and impactful research on brain health,” she said.Coifman i...

For thousands of years, ancient hunters across North America relied on the atlatl — a lever-powered spear-throwing device — to pursue prey. Then, about 1,400 years ago, something changed fast.A new study co-authored by Metin I. Eren, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Anthropology at 51����, published in the journal PNAS Nexus, reveals that the bow and arrow swept across western North America roughly 1,400 years ago in a near-simultaneous wave — and in much of the region, it didn't just compete with the atlatl. It wiped it out almost overnight.The research team analyzed 140...

Dr. Linda Spurlock is a Professor of Anthropology at 51����, and teaches courses in biological anthropology, forensic anthropology, primatology, and archeology. Dr. Spurlock will be teaching FACES: Human Head Anatomy with a Forensic Art Focus during the June session of the Florence Summer Institute. FACES: Human Head Anatomy with a Forensic Art FocusDr. Spurlock came up with FACES: Head Anatomy with a Forensic Art Focus by drawing inspiration from her own experience as a forensic artist, anthropologist and anatomist, as well as from the great artists Leonardo da V...