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Air Race Classic Students

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Flight Teams Showed Their Best Judgment When the Skies Wouldn't Cooperate

Two ¹ú²úÂ×Àí flight teams pushed through six of the nine legs of the 2026 Air Race Classic before a stretch of stubborn, unpredictable weather brought their race to an early end. 

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2026 graduate Kendall Myers with Dean James Hannon, Ph.D.

From College Credit Plus to Ph.D. Candidate

When Kendall Myers first arrived at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí at Stark as a College Credit Plus student, she knew she had an interest in biology. What she could not have predicted was just how far that passion would take her.

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Achante Pascute

Nursing Graduate's Resilience Inspires Class of 2026

When Achante Pascute stepped to the podium as ¹ú²úÂ×Àí at Trumbull’s student commencement speaker, she opened with a joke.

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Joe Conti's Behind the Frame student documentary about DMP

Show, Don't Tell

Graduating senior Joe Conti's documentary pulls back the curtain on ¹ú²úÂ×Àí's Digital Media Production major. His behind-the-scenes look at DMP follows students and faculty from the classroom to the field to the editing booth, offering incoming students and curious viewers an authentic taste of what the program delivers.

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School of Media and Journalism

Professor Dave Costello works with biology students in the Cuyahoga River

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Research Links Iron, Zinc Deficiency to Lake Erie Algal Blooms

A new study led by ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s David Costello finds that trace metals — not just nitrogen and phosphorus — frequently limit biological productivity in freshwater streams, with implications for waterways across Northeast Ohio and beyond.

Tags: Profiles , Biology

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¹ú²úÂ×Àí senior Julia Michalak

A Few Parting Words From Julia Michalak

We catch up with senior physical education and sport performance major Julia Michalak between student-teaching classes during her final semester at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí. In a brief Q&A-style interview reflecting on her trials and triumphs from the past four years, Michalak offers some wise words for her younger self and for future Golden Flashes. 

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Bekkah Berryhill at the Veteran's Day bulb planting.

‘I Feel Like the Luckiest Person in the World’

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Grounds Manager Rebekkah "Bekkah" Berryhill came to ¹ú²úÂ×Àí to get a teaching degree. What she learned while working as a student groundskeeper helped her find her passion and lasting happiness in the outdoors. 

Tags: Grounds , Organizational Sustainability , Profiles , University Facilities Management

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Laura Davis on Daffodil Hill

‘Perseverance Is Going to Have to Be Part of the Process’

Laura Davis, Ph.D., co-founder and first director of ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s May 4 Visitors Center, was recently named a Woman of the Year by the Summit County Historical Society. Davis was a first-year student at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí on May 4, 1970, and she shares her journey to becoming an activist and what people today can learn from America’s history of protest. 

Tags: Profiles , May 4 , May 4 Visitors Center , Nationally Distinctive , Community Impact

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Student Sydney Brown poses with flowers while wearing a broadcast headset

Sydney Brown is Just Getting Started

When Sydney Brown arrived at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí as a first-year student from Avon, Ohio, she didn't wait to get started. She walked into the TV2 newsroom — now ¹ú²úÂ×Àír TV — and introduced herself. That instinct to show up, dive in and tell stories has defined every semester since.

Tags: Profiles , College of Communication and Information , School of Media and Journalism

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Jasmine McCulley Competition

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Junior Jasmine McCulley Joins Team USA for World Twirling Championships

For most of her life, ¹ú²úÂ×Àí junior visual communication design major Jasmine McCulley, has built her identity around community, the arts and competition, whether through The Touch of Gold Twirlers or competitive baton twirling. Sixteen years after she first picked up a baton, she will represent Team USA this August in Paris at the IBTF World Competition.

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