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June 08, 2018
When you try on an outfit at a retail shop and it doesn’t fit, you can try on another size. But what if you’re purchasing traditional clothing from your native country thousands of miles away?
After watching her mother struggle to get clothing from Nigeria, Chioma Onukwuire, a recent graduate from ...

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May 25, 2018
At commencement convocation Sunday, Robin Dubin stood at the podium on stage at the outset of the event and declared: “The 2018 commencement convocation ceremony of ӰƵ is hereby convened.”
Dubin relished the moment, realizing it would be the last time she’d have the cha...

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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 ne...

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May 11, 2018
The lecture focused on materials science and engineering.
But the student wanted an answer on another topic. “Why is the cost of the new residence hall so high?”
Such is the lot of a faculty member who also has an administrative role—particularly when the position is among the most prominent in th...

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May 04, 2018
Almost a year and a half ago, Andrew Dupuis and Xyla Foxlin set out to make engineering more accessible for all with a new YouTube channel, “Beauty and the Bolt.”
Recently, they took their mission to lawmakers in Washington, D.C., for CES on the Hill. The event, hosted by the Consumer Technology As...

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May 01, 2018
Courtesy of the Weatherhead School of Management
Shanelle Smith is one of those people you just know is going places. She’s enrolled in the Weatherhead School of Management’s full-time MBA program and works (full-time) as the state director at The Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit land co...

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April 27, 2018
Access to safe drinking water remains a concern for many around the world. According to the World Health Organization, 2.1 billion people lacked safely managed water sources in 2015. Without clean water, people are at risk for diseases such as cholera, dysentery and hepatitis A.
But here in Clevela...

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April 23, 2018
Memorial service Thursday at Amasa Stone Chapel for longtime faculty member, researcher and former NASA shuttle payload specialist
Joseph Prahl, a longtime ӰƵ faculty member—and a payload specialist for the 1992 Columbia space shuttle flight—will be remembered Thursday in a memoria...

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April 23, 2018
Ann McKee (MED ’79) is a pioneer in her field—and she’s spent almost a decade challenging the National Football League over what’s happening on its fields across the country.
As a professor of neurology and pathology at Boston University (BU) School of Medicine, director of BU’s Chronic Traumatic E...

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April 20, 2018
Caroline Gray, a biology and business management student, wanted to leave her mark on ӰƵ. So as a senior, she led the recently formed Student Presidents’ Roundtable, an organization that governs the non-financial business of eight of the largest student groups.
And now,...