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Highland Lives, an LGBTQ documentary about a gayborhood in Akron has been picked up by Tales from the Margins, a UK-based LGBTQ program that airs on the Latest TV network which is based out of Brighton but watched throughout England—the station viewership is in the millions. Check out the video: vimeo.com/151825729 ...

Doctoral student plants gardens atop Cleveland buildings to bridge urban design with natural biology A bird’s-eye view of most cities captures the barren landscape of asphalt-covered rooftops, sprawling from one high-rise structure to another. As the sunshine makes its way across the city, the intense rays bake the dark roofs; and when the sun turns to rainfall, it floods the concrete sidewalks below. Urban architecture in most areas across the United States is not ecofriendly - after all - many buildings date back generations, long before the green movement started making its way from Euro...

Alumna Bertice Berry, an award-winning entertainer, lecturer and comedienne, to serve as keynote speaker   �鶹��ý will hold its 16th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Jan. 25 at 3:30 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. The keynote speaker for the event is Bertice Berry, Ph.D. A Kent State alumna and sociologist, she is also an award-winning entertainer, lecturer and comedienne. Dr. Berry’s vision is to enable, empower and uplift others to live an intentional life of purpose and joy. Her mission is to inspire change and transformation through life-lon...

Forthcoming Current graduate student in bold Taylor, Tiffany, Brianna Turgeon, and Christi Gross. (Forthcoming). “’Here on the Front Lines’: Welfare-to-Work Managers’ Moral Identity Work.” Symbolic Interaction. Taylor, Tiffany, Brianna Turgeon, and Christi Gross. (Forthcoming). “Becoming a Good Welfare Manager: Paternalistic Oppressive Othering and Boundary Maintenance.” Sociological Focus. Turgeon, Brianna. Print Forthcoming. “A Critical Discourse Analysis of Welfare-to-Work Program Managers’ Expectations and Evaluations of their Clients’ Mothering.” Critical Socio...

Jan. 6:  Emelia Sherin is a current student at �鶹��ý and co-creator of the play “(In)dependent, The Heroin Project. The play deals with the opioid addiction crisis in her hometown of Warren, Ohio. Learn more about The Heroin Project   ...

�鶹��ý’s Executive Vice President and Provost Todd Diacon, Ph.D., will be featured on an upcoming PBS “American Experience” program. The show, titled “Into the Amazon” traces the 1914 journey of President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Candido Mariano Da Silva Rondon into the heart of the South American rainforest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon River. The program is set to air at 9 p.m. Jan. 9 on WNEO/WAEO, Channel 45/49.  “Into the Amazon” was written, produced and directed by John Maggio and executive produced by Mark Samels. The fi...

Dr. Mariann Harding is dedicated to educating the next generation of nurses. The �鶹��ý at Tuscarawas nursing professor served on the editing team of the 10th edition of the award-winning book, Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems. Harding wrote four chapters for the book, including “Professional Nursing Practice” and “Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Imbalance” and was section editor for ten chapters. The book was recently named a 2017 book of the year winner by the American Journal of Nursing (AJN). AJN, a leading voice of nursing since 190...