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Dear 51���� Student, This is a reminder that you are not fully vaccinated and must take part in regular testing for COVID-19. Who Must Test? You are receiving this reminder for one of these reasons: You have an exemption from the university’s vaccine requirement and must submit to regular testing to comply with your exemption or you have submitted your request for an exemption and are waiting for it to be approved. You are noncompliant with the university’s vaccine requirement and must test until you come into compliance. Even if you are in the process of rece...

51���� also recognized in Best Online Graduate Education Programs and Best Online MBA Programs rankings U.S. News & World Report has named three 51���� programs as U.S. News Best Online Programs for 2022. 51���� is recognized in the Best Online Master’s in Nursing Programs, Best Online Graduate Education Programs and Best Online MBA Programs rankings. Its online master’s in nursing program ranks in the top 50 in the country among public institutions in the latest rankings released by U.S. News. 51����’s online master’s in nursing program, offered by the Col...

America has a fresh water problem. Here's why. By Samuel Chang and Sarah Gao America's fresh water is in danger. The Great Lakes hold roughly 20% of the world's surface freshwater, and Lake Erie alone provides drinking water to more than 11 million residents in the United States. But serious water quality, access and infrastructure problems are threatening our fresh water future.  Watch the Midstory video here ...

Kent, OH – 51����’s School of Theatre and Dance continues its 2021-2022 production season with the B.F.A. Senior Dance Concert/Student Dance Festival: AWAKENINGS. The concert will be presented in the Erdmann-Zucchero Theatre located in the Center for the Performing Arts, 1325 Theatre Drive, Kent, OH 44242. The concert series runs Fri., March 18 and Sat., March 19 at 7:30 pm and Sun., March 20 at 2:00 pm. The B.FA. Senior Dance Concert in collaboration with the Student Dance Festival will present nine pieces including a solo choreographed by Dance Division faculty member Erin ...

When he lost his job at a local manufacturing facility, Andrew Milarcik did what many former students do, he went back to school. “I had previously completed my AAS Mechanical Engineering Technology degree and thought that would be fine, but the company I worked for got bought out by a foreign concern and they really didn’t understand my degree,” he said. “So, I took a year to finish my bachelor’s.” As part of his coursework at 51���� at Tuscarawas, Milarcik enrolled in Advanced Manufacturing, a class where he had to complete a project of his choice. His choice was unusu...

A retired Marine is using his journey to assist others at 51����'s Center for Adult and Veteran Services. Recently featured on Good Morning America’s “What You Need to Know” (GMA3) segment, Mark Stillion discussed his experience of adjusting to life after his four deployments and how 51����’s programs have assisted him.  Stillion returned to 51���� with the intention of earning a degree that would allow him to assist the veteran community professionally After a year in school, he was hired by the Center for Adult and Veteran Services.  “I’m very proud to be in...

Julie Mazzei, Ph.D., associate professor and interim director of the School of Multidisciplinary Social Sciences and Humanities, in the College of Arts and Sciences at 51����, will take part in a virtual roundtable discussion with her co-authors of an edited volume "Paramilitary Groups and the State under Globalization: Political Violence, Elites and Security", edited by Jasmin Hristov, Jeb Sprague and Aaron Tauss (London: Routledge, 2022) on February 23 from 2-3:30 pm EST online via Zoom. To register, visit: https://uoft.me/paramilitary. Mazzei wrote&...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded a $300,000 grant to Thorsten-Lars Schmidt, Ph.D., to develop molecular tools that allow researchers to study membrane proteins.  Schmidt, assistant professor of the Department of Physics in the College of Arts & Sciences, began developing this project while still at the Technical University Dresden, before accepting a position at 51����. “Cell membranes that surround all cells contain a large number of membrane proteins,” Schmidt said. ”Without these proteins, cells would quickly die, as they take over a large v...