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ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ Researchers Launch Free Math Multiplication Learning App for Elementary Grades

Educators, researchers and computer scientists from ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ have partnered to develop a math learning app that is now live and freely available on iTunes. 

Tags: Research & Science , Community & Society

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ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ Volleyball players use power tools to help with Habitat home

Teamwork Pays Off For ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ Volleyball Players In Helping Build Habitat Home

Members of the ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ volleyball team shifted their focus to helping out in the local community as 16 players joined members of the coaching staff volunteered at a Habitat for Humanity home refurbishing site in Ravenna.

Tags: Intercollegiate Athletics , Community & Society

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Cancer Connects Two Pilots, a Decade Apart and a Mile High

Matthew Dougard and Niki Kukwa never met, but they made a connection high above the clouds, drawn together by the will to fight and a passion to fly.

Tags: Health , Community & Society , Featured Story

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Paddling Partners Team Up Along the Cuyahoga River

Paddling is one of the fastest growing outdoor recreational sports around the country.  Few universities are located so close to a river to offer the sport, and even fewer partner with the city where it resides. 

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ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ's Rick Ferdig, Ph.D., served as lead investigator on a National Science Foundation grant to develop a new learning app that is now live and freely available on iTunes.

ParkApps: Using Technology to Learn About a National Park

Educators, scientists, and technologists from the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ and Cleveland Metroparks have partnered to develop a new learning app that is now live and freely available on iTunes. 

Tags: College of Education and Human Services , College of Education and Human Services , Research Center for Educational Technology , National Science Foundation , Research & Science , Community & Society

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No Desk Jobs for These ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ Alumna

Walk the halls of some secondary private schools in Ohio and you will see students adorned in what appears to be typical school attire: striped skirts, traditional ties and stark white button-up oxfords.     What you do not see are the amazing women around the globe who use se…

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 Danielle Sarver Coombs, associate professor in ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ ºìÐÓÊÓÆµâ€™s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, lectures in a Franklin Hall classroom during an afternoon journalism class.

ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ Journalism Professor Says Clinton Nomination Highlights Double Standard

Danielle Sarver Coombs, Associate Professor in the College of Communication and Information, feels that women have to run their campaigns differently than their male counterparts. She recently shared her views with the Akron Beacon Journal for a story about Hillary Clinton's selection a…

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A ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ student stands vigil at the spot where Allison Krause was shot on May 4, 1970.

ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ Observes 46th Annual May 4 Commemoration

ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ held its 46th annual commemoration of May 4, 1970, with events taking place April 26 through May 4. The annual commemoration, hosted by the May 4 Task Force, provided an opportunity for the university community to gather and remember those who were lost and injured during the t…

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ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ student Ashley Flowers poses under a bridge in downtown ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ with a bag full of items she hands out to the homeless in downtown Cleveland.

ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ Student Creates Care Packages for the Homeless

When the concept of homelessness comes to mind, people tend to focus efforts on food donations, but Ashley Flowers, a junior majoring in psychology and criminology and justice studies at ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ, wants to remind people that clothing and toiletries also are essential items. A native …

Tags: Student Success , Success Story , Division of Student Life , Community & Society

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Shanice Cheatham worked with ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ ºìÐÓÊÓÆµâ€™s College of Public Health and LaunchNET ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ to help her company, Endemic Solutions, develop its Endemic Filtration Portable Handwashing System.

Life-Changing Event Inspires ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ Entrepreneur to Help Prevent Infectious Diseases

In 2009, Shanice Cheatham, who received her bachelor’s degree from ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ in 2013 and is pursuing a graduate degree in environmental health sciences at ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ, was told that her father had a 10 percent chance of living after being infected with MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylo…

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