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After years of remote sensing work, Joseph Ortiz, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at ��������, and his research team recently shared their development of new cost-efficient methodologies that may lead to much safer drinking water for people in Ohio and other municipalities affected by harmful algal blooms (HAB). While conducting fieldwork in the western basin of Lake Erie, Ortiz recently posted to his Twitter account, “The HAB was so thick you could not see 20 centimeters below the water surface. Bad, but it can get much worse...

The �������� alumni network will again grow its ranks this summer as more than a thousand Golden Flashes get their degrees. �������� will hold its Summer 2019 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 17, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation (MAC) Center. �������� will confer 1,165 degrees, including 285 associate degrees, 572 bachelor’s degrees, 228 master’s degrees, 66 doctoral degrees and 14 educational specialist degrees.  The undergraduate degree Commencement ceremony for bachelor’s and associate degrees will begin at 9:30 a.m. T...

ASHTABULA, OHIO  – Targeted at widening students’ educational opportunities in preparing them for a career in occupational therapy, the �������� at Ashtabula Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) Technology program recently announced the creation of a hybrid model, combining online learning with more convenient on-campus laboratory sessions. The new model will launch in Summer 2020. “There is an unfulfilled need for hybrid options for students,” said OTA Program Director Julie Mirabell, MS, OT/L.  “There are a lot of (OTA) programs, but ours will be the first to prov...

The recent death of one of the remaining members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II has a �������� associate professor recalling the vital role the female pilots played during the war. “World War II was a total war,” said Associate Professor Molly Merryman, Ph.D., the author of “Clipped Wings: The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II.” “And what that meant was that all men, women, children, citizens needed to have a war role,” Merryman told The Washington Post in the obituary for Dorothy Olsen, 103, of University Place, O...

Note: Gretchen Hoak is a former television reporter/anchor and current assistant professor of journalism in ��������’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Her research survey, “Are We Teaching Trauma?”,  focused on how universities prepare young journalists for the trauma they may endure in covering violence. �������� Today asked Hoak to share her thoughts on the impact the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton will have on the reporters assigned to cover these events.  “It’s awful, y’all. Barely hanging on. Our newsroom is command central.”There is a Face...