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Dean Stocker Through the Years Photo Gallery “It has been an incredible privilege and honor to serve in this role and to represent the Ashtabula Campus," - Dr. Susan J. Stocker ASHTABULA, OHIO (MARCH 1, 2022) -- A historic tenure and an over 30-year educational career will be coming to an end as 51���� at Ashtabula Dean and Chief Administrative Officer Susan J. Stocker, Ph.D., announced her retirement effective at the end of the academic year. Stocker, the longest serving dean at 51����, will wrap up her 21st and final year as dean on June 30, 2022. “It has been an incred...

Junior nursing major Hannah Call is the recipient of the 51���� Leadership Center’s February Student Leader of the Month. The Student Leader of the Month program seeks to recognize students for excellence in leadership through campus and community involvement. This month, Call earned the spotlight for her leadership skills as an Honors student and president of the Delta Gamma sorority. She also works at Mercy Health’s St. Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown as a student nurse and is ecstatic to begin her career. “Getting the award made me feel great,” Call said. “I now know I’m m...

For recent journalism graduates, the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped their entry into the news industry. Three 51���� graduates, Madison Tromler, ‘20, Erin Simonek, ’20 and Anna Huntsman, ’19, discuss their work. In both broadcast and radio media, these alumni have focused much of their reporting on the pandemic, mostly with a Northeast Ohio angle — not just on case numbers or other statistics, but also on the effects on the economy, businesses and the healthcare industry. “Especially in the beginning, there was almost always a tie between every story I would cover and the connec...

Public relations professionals are time and time again the backbone of communications and community building within their industries. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, 51���� alumni in healthcare fields have been put to the test to deliver important and timely responses to their network through both internal and external communications. Deborah (Pritchard) Less, ‘09, Communications Manager for the Cleveland Clinic, finds her role as an internal communications professional is to keep all caregivers (the term used to identify all employees) “informed, motivated, and inspired.” “With so...

  The College of Arts & Sciences is hosting a panel discussion on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  Moderated by School of Peace and Conflict Studies director Neil Cooper, the panel includes faculty from the School of Peace and Conflict Studies, the School of Multidisciplinary Social Sciences and Humanities, the Department of Political Science, and the Department of History.  Join us Tuesday, March 1 at 5:15 pm in 133 Bowman Hall. This event will also be live streamed via Zoom. https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89892613500     ...

Kent, Ohio — The Kent Keyboard Series continues its 2021-2022 season presenting Min Kwon’s America/Beautiful project, a collaboration with 75 American composers to write variations on “America The Beautiful,” performed by Kwon. A selection of the variations will be presented in 51����’s Ludwig Recital Hall on March 20 at 7:30 p.m. This will be Kwon’s only Ohio performance of this internationally touring program. Tickets are $10 for adults and free for those 18 and under with a ticket reservation. The America/Beautiful project was Kwon’s response to the COVID 19 pandemic, working to do s...

During a summer research project at 51���� at Geauga, nursing student Lauren Petrick succeeded in isolating a bacterial virus that shows promise as an alternative to antibiotics in fighting off intestinal bacterial infections such as urinary tract infections, GI tract infections and even pneumonia. In her microbiology class with 51���� Geauga Associate Professor Sanhita Gupta, Ph.D., Petrick became intrigued by a problem that plagues modern medicine: antibiotic-resistant bacteria that won’t respond to the medicine. While antibiotics were once considered miracle medicines, t...