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Members of ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s Design Innovation Initiative are forging creative collaborations with local and regional organizations and funders as they work toward the production of personal protective equipment (PPE) for first responders battling the COVID-19 pandemic.

A team of ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ students took home the Outstanding Science Award from the Biodesign Challenge Summit 2020 held in June.

Jhariah Wadkins, a senior communications studies major in ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½'s College of Communication and Information, encourages young people to keep this fight against racism going and to not let up.

I wonder, how do I decide how to act in recognition of that disturbing dynamic? Michael Kavulic, Ph.D., director of research strategic initiatives in ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s Division of Research and Sponsored Programs, shares his inner thoughts as an ally.

ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ at Geauga is pleased to announce a $20,000 award from the Lake-Geauga Fund of the Cleveland Foundation toward a student emergency fund and technology advances. The $20,000 grant will be split evenly between the two initiatives.

The National Science Foundation believes ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ mathematicians Artem Zvavitch, Ph.D., and Dmitry Ryabogin, Ph.D., are having worthwhile conversations about some age-old unsolved problems, and it has provided support to keep the discussion going for another three years.

When black Americans watched George Floyd being killed by a white police officer, they saw themselves and their family members. The unrelenting series of events that black Americans have witnessed before and after Floyd’s killing is , which at its core is racism, says ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Psychological Sciences Professor Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D.

George Floyd's death focused light on what had been America’s ugly secret, the killing of black men by law enforcement officers at a rate far greater than any other race. Wayne Dawson, WJW Fox 8 anchor and ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ alumnus, offers his take on what's at stake for America.

ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ brought home the gold after this year’s Akron ADDY Awards, with both professionals and students being recognized for their work. The ADDYs, put on by the Akron Chapter of the American Advertising Federation, celebrate the area’s best creative work in advertising.

About 300 people attended the first in a series of virtual town halls as the ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ community addresses systemic racism by learning, listening and taking action as a collective.

Mwatabu S. Okantah, associate professor in ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s Department of Pan-African Studies, shares his perspective as someone who first arrived at ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ in September 1970 as a student. Nearly 50 years later, he is an associate professor at the university.

Is this America? Where popular culture is largely represented by Black culture? Where musicians, artists, and athletes can be praised and celebrated for their talents, but criminalized for their skin color? Mike Daniels shares his insight. 

The Mid-American Conference (MAC) announced Wednesday a historic esports venture with a newly created independent esports conference – Esports Collegiate Conference – to facilitate and foster high-quality gaming competition among collegiate esports teams. ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ is among the 12 founding members of the new esports conference. 

ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ has won the Mid-American Conference’s Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) for women’s sports award for the first time in school history.

University and student leaders share their personal insights into America's current unrest and whether protests will lead to lasting change. 

Tayjua Hines, president of Black United Students at ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½, shares this student perspective about racism in our country and says now is the time to enact change.

Amoaba Gooden, Ph.D., ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½'s interim vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion, and chair and associate professor in the Department of Pan-African Studies, offers her insights in current unrest in America.

Neil Cooper, Ph.D., director of the School of Peace and Conflict Studies, says civil disturbances of the kind witnessed since the death of George Floyd represent moments of opportunity for societies.

A ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ student is gaining recognition for a photo she took that captures an African American Cleveland police officer shedding a tear as he came face to face with demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis Police custody.

The ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Emergency Grant Fund is helping students meet financial challenges.