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 May 14, 2018
   With commencement just a few days away, many on campus are preparing to walk across the stage and start the next phase of their life after years of hard work. We talked with graduating students from each school to see how they got here, what their time was like on campus and where they’re heading… 
  
 February 27, 2018
   In a region defined by health care and humanities excellence, the third annual festival joins 25+ cultural institutions for a month of free events in Northeast Ohio—starting March 15 Health—and its absence—has inspired centuries of art and ingenuity. Exploring the unique role of health in human… 
  
 February 22, 2018
   Modeled after Sears think[box], new experiment space at ӰƵ provides open research lab to bring ideas to life Look out, there’s a brand new [box] in town. ӰƵ, home to the internationally recognized Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick Sears… 
  
 January 22, 2018
   The College of Arts and Sciences is offering up to 12 $3,000 stipends for graduate work at the dissertation level in the arts, humanities and social sciences for fall semester 2018. The fellowships are intended to facilitate the transition from course work and accelerate the process of writing… 
  
 January 19, 2018
   In the mid-2000s, a sense that the Islamophobia brought on by the 9/11 terror attacks had somewhat eased gave rise to a new feeling of optimism among some Muslim communities in the United States. They saw an opportunity to remake certain aspects of their public perception, setting out to prove… 
  
 July 14, 2017
   Brian K. Gran, associate professor of sociology, was chosen as chair elect of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Human Rights. The section “seeks to promote and support critical, interdisciplinary, and international engagement with human rights scholarship, teaching and practice,… 
  
 July 05, 2017
   ӰƵ launched the Post-baccalaureate Readiness Instruction for bioMedical Education Program (PRIME) for pre-medical students looking to bolster their candidacy for medical school. This is a joint program of the School of Medicine and College of Arts and Sciences. This… 
  
 February 02, 2017
   Clare Malone, senior political writer for FiveThirtyEight.com, will come to campus for a discussion on the election Tuesday, Feb. 7, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Clare Malone Malone will present "Are There Any Norms Left? What Clues 2016 Offers to America During the Trump… 
  
 October 25, 2016
   Study: Older men adhere closely to an idealized masculinity script that is incompatible with the realities of later life As men age, they continue to follow dominant ideas of masculinity learned as youth, leaving them unequipped for the assaults of old age, according to a new study. The mismatch… 
  
 September 29, 2016
   Barry Miller, the Frank Hovorka Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, recently received the Edward Goodrich Acheson Award from the Electrochemical Society. The award is presented to one person every two years for "conspicuous contribution to the advancement of the objectives, purposes and activities of… 
  
   
 
 
 
 
           
          