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As part of the Summit Street: Building a Better Way improvement project, the East Campus Center Drive/Summit Street intersection will be closed May 16-22. During that time, motorists will not be able to access East Campus Center Drive from Summit Street or from Campus Center Drive. Barricades will be posted to prohibit traffic on that stretch of roadway. Johnston Drive also will be closed to traffic for several weeks beginning Monday, May 16, to allow for construction to begin on the first roundabout. Detour routes will be posted for Johnston Drive. Access will be open to the Power Pla...

A book published by the 51���� Press has won the 2016 IBPA Benjamin Franklin gold award in the Body, Mind and Spirit category. When the Nurse Becomes a Patient is a memoir of illness and healing by Cortney Davis, a nurse practitioner and author of several other publications. “We are proud to have published this award-winning medical humanities volume!” says Will Underwood, director of the 51���� Press. “This is the third national award for Cortney’s book. It’s a real feather in the cap for her and 51����.” The IBPA Award...

The 51���� Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, May 11. The Board is scheduled to convene at 9 a.m. in the Event Space on the first floor of the university’s new Center for Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement, located at 350 S. Lincoln St. in Kent, Ohio. Trustees will retire into executive session from 7:30-8:45 a.m. in the Board Room on the third floor to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.”  No committees meetings will be held. The Board will meet as a committee of the whole during the 9 a.m. Board ...

51���� will hold its Spring 2016 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Friday, May 13, and Saturday, May 14, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation (MAC) Center, and on Friday, May 20, at Cartwright Hall. 51���� will confer 4,210 degrees, including 3,067 bachelor’s degrees, 968 master’s degrees, 169 doctoral degrees and six educational specialist degrees. Across the university’s eight-campus system, 5,226 students will graduate from 51���� this spring, including those receiving associate degrees. Friday, May 13, at 6 p.m. The 6 p.m. ceremony on Friday, May ...

The annual fashion show, “FS²: Crescendo,” highlighted the outstanding talents of the 51���� Fashion School’s design and merchandising students.       ...

51���� at Stark faculty and staff gathered in the Campus Center to recognize the 2016 Staff Excellence Award recipients. Bobbi Groves, administrative clerk for Student Services, was the staff recipient, and Jared Weber, senior IT user support analyst with Network Services, was the administrator recipient. Several weeks prior to the ceremony, the campus community was asked to nominate a staff member or administrator with a written recommendation supporting the person they thought deserved to be recognized. Criteria for nominations included: Gives 1...

Athletics attracts students from around the globe  Many international student-athletes say that 51����’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics has gone above and beyond to make their transition to the U.S. as comfortable as possible. The university offers international students a welcoming and team-driven environment, both academically and athletically. “51���� has allowed me to do just about everything I have wanted to do,” says Dior Delophont, senior fashion design major and standout women’s track and field competitor at 51����. Putting Empha...

51���� competes in national fitness initiative  51���� is competing against employers across the country in the On The Move Challenge, a 12-week corporate fitness challenge promoting more movement throughout the workday. Nationwide, On The Move has 84 participating companies and 78,075 total participants. The companies are grouped by enterprises, businesses with more than 100 employees and small businesses – companies with fewer than 100 employees. 51���� is competing in the enterprise category and ranks between 25 and 27 of 55 companies, depending on the week. Te...

Students from 51���� East Liverpool’s occupational therapy assistant program gathered at the downtown entrance ramp to the city to help spruce up the “serpentine” landscape of that area by pulling weeds, trimming shrubs, raking mulch and picking up litter. They joined efforts with the East Liverpool-Calcutta Garden Club members, who maintain that area of the city’s landscape. Once finished, the students walked to The Locke House and cleaned up the landscaping and lawn at that location.  # # # Inside Photo: East Liverpool Mayor Ryan Stovall caught up with OTA students who were w...

In 2014, less than four years after Continental and United announced that the airlines were merging operations, the newly expanded United shut down its hub at Cleveland Hopkins Airport. Since that time, the number of nonstop flights from the airport has dwindled from 58 to 15 – a nearly 75 percent decrease in two years. The loss of direct access to a long list of destinations across the country was another blow to air travel at nearby large regional airports. In the past decade, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati also lost their hub status. Beginning May 3 and airing on four consecutive Tuesdays, WK...