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A series of paintings by local artist Peggy Albert Mangano will be featured in an exhibit at the 51���� East Liverpool Art Gallery, located in the Mary Patterson Building. Titled “Flowers by Peggy,” the show opens with a reception on Thursday, April 12, beginning at 5:30 p.m. A highlight of the reception will be the unveiling of a painting that she is donating to the permanent art collection at 51���� East Liverpool. The featured work is called “Wild Irish Rose.”  Mangano was born and raised in Nebraska and graduated high school in Seattle, Wash.  She was trained as an educ...

March 24: Dr. Anne Jefferson, an assistant professor in the Geology Department at 51����, and her team have been asked by the National Parks Service to investigate why trees won’t grow on National Park land in NE Ohio which are on top of old mining sites.  Forest surrounds these places, but new plantings are not succeeding.  The Parks Service gave 51���� a chance to do long term research at these sites which will help not just locally, but nationally and beyond. Read Road salt choking ecosystems and contaminating water Visit Dr. Anne Jefferson's Watershed...

Daniel Grossman, Ph.D., an award-winning journalist and radio/web producer with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, visited 51���� recently to share his professional experiences with students, faculty and community members. Grossman was one of three panelists who spoke at the 51���� School of Communication Studies (COMM) Spring 2018 Global Issues Forum titled, “Advancing Understanding of Climate Change: The Role of Science and Global Communication.” With a Ph.D. in political science and a Bachelor of Science in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (...

Entrepreneurship takes many forms. It can take advantage of new technology or a new way of using old technology. In some cases, it combines new and old to create something entirely new. In Javon Miller’s case, his business was created by combining a new hobby with a tool that humans have used for centuries.   “Bovazi is a handcrafted pen and pencil company that I started in January 2017 as a senior in high school,” says Mr. Miller, a freshman psychology major. “I hand carve and assemble luxury pens from different materials.”   Made from wood and acrylic, Bovazi pens and pencils co...

Gemma Casadesus Smith, Ph.D., an associate professor of biological sciences at 51����, talks about memory loss and what she is doing to help prevent it.     ...

Haithem Zourrig, Ph.D., Marketing and Entrepreneurship, 51���� Stark, presented “A Value-based Pricing Simulation Game for Entrepreneurship and Business Students” at the 45th Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators (ACME) conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on March 7, 2018.   Dr. Zourrig, an assistant professor in the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at 51���� Stark, also received the AxcessCapon Teaching Innovation Award, discerned by the Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators (ACME) conference from March 7-10, 2018, Albuquerque, New Mexico...

Trevor Watkins, University Libraries, presented “The Industrial Robot and Software Development Lifecycle: A Framework for Designing, Building, and Programming for Industrial Robot Integration” during Saudi Arabia’s Alfaisal University's College of Engineering Webinar Series on March 13, 2018.   Summary: In this talk, the author discussed the process of building robots in parallel with designing and creating applications in the Industry 4.0 ecosystem. The lifecycle is composed of eight phases. We discussed the importance of specifications, scope, evaluating risk and alternatives, const...