David Dees, Ph.D., of Guilford Lake, Ohio, has been selected to serve as dean and chief administrative officer of the ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Columbiana County campuses. He will provide overall leadership of ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ at East Liverpool and ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ at Salem, two of the Regional Campuses in the university’s eight-campus system. Dees currently serves as interim dean of the Columbiana County campuses, a position he has held since July 1, 2016. He began serving as the permanent dean on June 1, 2017. “I am so honored to be selected for this position where I had actually star...
Lower Great Lakes Emmy Awards will be held June 17 at the Cleveland Hilton A group of undergraduate and graduate ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ students in the School of Theatre and Dance’s scenery design course have been invited to design and build the set for the Lower Great Lakes Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ Emmy Award ceremony taking place June 17 at the Cleveland Hilton. Advised by Assistant Professor Tamara L. Honesty, the students met with John Stealey, vice president of the Lower Great Lakes Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (N...
With a goal of becoming one of the nation’s top public universities in aeronautics and engineering education and research, the ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Board of Trustees approved changing the name of the College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology to the College of Aeronautics and Engineering. The change better reflects the expansion of the college’s programs and accentuates its highly trained and sought-after graduates who go on to work for commercial airlines, corporate flight departments, the military and the Federal Aviation Administration. The revised name furth...
ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s Division of Human Resources is accepting applications for the Institute for Excellence (I4E) until June 15. The Institute for Excellence is ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s premier leadership program. According to the Human Resources LEAD Awards, the university’s Institute for Excellence program ranks eighth in the nation in the category of certificate programs with emphasis on leadership and organizational development. The Institute for Excellence will begin in September. The program has two tracks, the Administrators and Individual Contributors. The Admini...
ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Distinguished Professor of Human Evolutionary Studies C. Owen Lovejoy, Ph.D., received the President’s Medal from President Beverly Warren during the One University Commencement Ceremony on May 13 in Dix Stadium. The President’s Medal is the highest honor conferred by ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½. It recognizes faculty and administrative staff who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ through extraordinary and unique service. In a stellar academic career spanning nearly 50 years, Lovejoy has advanced the education of students and global understanding of human...
(Warren, OH) Frank Lindsay, ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Trumbull’s Manager of Information Technology, has always been looking for ways to help others. When his father, Frank Lindsay, Sr., was losing his battle with cancer in 2000, he began admiring the work of hospice organizations and noticed how they made a difficult time a little more tolerable. With help from Lindsay’s wife, Heather, and friends Jennifer and Matt Durno, Rock4Reason was established in July 2016. What began as a series of fundraisers for Hospice of the Valley and the American Cancer Society, became a full-fledged 501c3 charitable organizati...
ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ celebrated its newest graduates at its Spring 2017 Commencement ceremonies. In total, ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ conferred 5,636 degrees, including 992 associate degrees, 3,319 bachelor’s degrees, 1,139 master’s degrees, 181 doctoral degrees and five educational specialist degrees. ...
Two ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ students received Best in Show honors, as well as the Dean’s Choice Awards, during the April 20 ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ at Tuscarawas 13th annual Student Computer Designed Art Exhibition. The art expo was held at the Tuscarawas County Center for the Arts in New Philadelphia. Leslie Oakes won Best in Show for her artwork, Lucifer- The Fallen Angel. Oakes is a junior majoring in engineering technology with a concentration in computer design, animation and game design. Joseph Smith had two pieces of artwork win Best in Show, Tank and Robot. Smith is a senior pursuing a ...
The Destination ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ (DKS) Registration and Advising program helps students transition and connect to the university. Research shows that students who successfully make a connection to the people and the university are more likely to persist to graduation. One intentional way that ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ seeks to connect with students is through their relationship with an exceptional group of students called Flashguides. Flashguides are ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s version of orientation leaders, and they are selected through a lengthy multiphased interview process. The Flashguide position requires abunda...
A person’s genetic makeup influences how frequently he or she uses social media, according to research by Chance York, Ph.D., assistant professor in ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. York conducted the research by comparing survey responses between sets of fraternal and identical twins – an approach that has been widely used to study how political views, among other things, are influenced by genetic traits. He found that while both types of twins showed similarities in social media use when compared with one another, the correlation was stronger in identic...