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Dr. Angela Spalsbury, Dean of 51���� at Geauga and Twinsburg Academic Center, announced those students named to the Fall 2022 President's and Dean's lists. To qualify for the President's List, students must have a 4.0-grade point average and have completed 15 hours during the semester. To qualify for the Dean's List, students must earn a 3.40 or more grade point average and have completed 12 or more credit hours for the semester. To qualify for the Part-time student Dean's List, students must have a grade point average of 3.40 or greater for 12 or more hours. Student...

51���� celebrated its 112th birthday on May 19 by launching its first-ever Day of Giving and raising $65,000 from more than 350 alumni, friends and partners in 24 hours to support a variety of scholarships. The blue and gold community came together as part of the university’s Forever Brighter comprehensive campaign. The giving day featured more than 25 scholarship funds and an opportunity to match individual gifts up to $500 until the $15,000 in matching funds were exhausted. The gifts made on the Day of Giving will help students on all 51���� campuses focus on their educ...

SPCS faculty member Molly Merryman was selected to join the inaugural class of 51����'s Design Innovation (DI) Faculty Fellows program. The fellowship is based in the DI HUB, where Molly will focus on her project “Queering Academic and Scholarly Space: Theoretical, Pedagogical and Applied Work,” while supporting Design Innovation Hub outreach and teaching, as well as building meaningful connections between DI and Peace and Conflict Studies. This project continues to build on Merryman's work as research director for Queer Britain, the United Kingdom's national LGBTQ+ museum. ...

School of Peace and Conflict Studies, 51���� Visiting Researcher/Visiting Practitioner Program: Call for Applications   The Visiting Researcher (VR)/Visiting Practitioner (VP) Program provides funding for an expert in the field of Peace and Conflict Studies to spend up to three months at the School of Peace and Conflict Studies (SPCS), to undertake research. The funding will support the costs of travel to 51���� as well as accommodation and subsistence whilst located at SPCS. During their time at SPCS the VR/VP will be expected to (i) undertake research that wi...

Everyone expects Death Valley in July to be "hot" and Minneapolis in February to be "cold", right? Much research has been done to study the extreme temperature events that take place in these and other regions. But, what about 81 degrees in Anchorage in July or 2 degrees in Dallas in February?Such events are often called "relative" extreme temperature events – relative to the time of the year and how acclimatized the local population is to them. Less studied, though potentially more impactful, relative temperature extremes are a topic that two 51���� geography pro...

In advance of Monday’s observance of the Juneteenth federal holiday, we asked members of the 51���� community to reflect on the federal holiday and share their thoughts on what they hope it means for the university. "Growing up in Texas, I can envision what it might have been like more than a century ago when Union army soldiers first arrived in Galveston to inform some of the country's last remaining enslaved Black Americans that the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed. They were free! What a jubilant day that must have been. More than 150 years later, we celebrate Jun...