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KENT, Ohio – The Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship at 51����'s Online MBA program recently became the first and only Online MBA program in the nation to earn Quality Matters Program Design Certification. Quality Matters™ (QM) is an international, faculty-centric, nonprofit organization focused on improving design and certifying the quality of online and hybrid courses. According to the Quality Matters website, the certification recognizes programs that are designed around measurable learning objectives or competencies. In addition to the Colle...

Michael Tubergen, professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry and Torsten Hegmann, professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry as well as the Materials Science Graduate Program and Director of the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute (AMLCI), may be working in different fields of research, but they have been continuously collaborating with one another to achieve their like-minded goal: Help shape and prepare the next generation of researchers and scientists, regardless of what school they attend. Hegmann and Tubergen received a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grant that sup...

The School of Peace and Conflict Studies along with the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Landon Edward Hancock of 51���� has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award. Dr. Hancock will complete a project at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia that aims to exchange knowledge and establish partnerships benefiting participants, institutions, and communities both in the U.S. and overseas through a variety of educational and training activities within Peace and Conflict Resolution.  Recipients of Fulb...

Always big on professional development opportunities, Vice President for Student Affairs Lamar Hylton had to get creative when executing those plans during a pandemic. Enter the Division of Student Affairs Fellows program. “I have always had a commitment to making sure that division staff takes advantage of as many professional development opportunities as possible,” said Hylton. “With the onset of the pandemic, we knew that funding for more traditional forms of professional development like conferences and institute travel and things like that we were not likely to happen [so] we needed...

51���� Animation Game Design (AGD) students and faculty will be participating in IndieCade Horizons, Saturday, June 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, June 13, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. IndeCade Horizons is a new, online, international event that showcases game students and schools, and connects them with tool creators, recruiters, one another and the broader public. A juried festival of games, this event is described as the video game industry’s Sundance Festival. IndieCade Horizons celebrates the work of game students and schools from around the world, highlighting work ...

Julia Perrone, research technician and lab manager of the Bahlai computational ecology lab in the 51���� Department of Biological Sciences, wants teachers and students to get a chance to understand ecology and data science from a hands-on perspective. Perrone, a recent graduate of 51����’s Master of Library and Information Science program, is combining her passion for insect ecology with science education and outreach by partnering with Data Nuggets, an NSF-funded organization devoted to getting real research into the K-12 curriculum. Perrone developed a “nugget”, a hands-on lesson ...

Dr. D. Louis Christensen served as an educational force at 51����’s College of Education and University School in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As he celebrates his 90th birthday this month, the College of EHHS looks back on his incredible professional life. His career started in 1950 — at the beginning of the Korean War. He served as a Naval Intelligence officer in Great Britain during the war, and remained active duty for a decade while earning his Bachelor’s in English from Western Michigan University. He soon took a position as a teacher, and the rest is history...

The 51���� Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting on Wednesday, June 23, at 11:45 a.m. to consider the recommendations of the standing committees, proposed personnel actions and new business. All actions of the Board will be taken at this business meeting. Trustees may participate in person or remotely in accordance with Substitute House Bill 404.   On June 23, meetings of the full Board of Trustees are accessible electronically to the university community and the public: Executive Session – Wednesday, June 23, 8:30-10 a.m. Trustees will retir...

Plato once said, “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” Although our students, faculty, and staff adapted to remote learning and meetings this past school year, we missed true social interaction on campus. Informal conversations in hallways and parking lots were limited and even during those brief encounters, masks covered friendly smiles. I am cautiously optimistic for our return this fall and to again see students, faculty, and staff on campus, gathered in the halls, sitting outside of the Student Union, and building friendships.  Co...