Marianne Martens, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, is author of an invited chapter titled “Reading the Readers: Tracking Visible Online Reading Audiences” in P. M. Rothbauer, K.I. Skjerdingstad, L.E.F. McKechnie, and K. Oterholm (Eds.), Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory/Practice/Politics. (2016). Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfred Laurier University Press.
Marianne Martens, School of Library and Information Science

A commitment to excel on the State of Ohio Physical Fitness Assessment yielded a perfect score for Ը University’s Police Academy cadets.

Three Ը University community members have developed a new app called Circl, which reinvents how people socialize and network.

Ը University’s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising has once again been named among the nation’s elite.

The Ը University Museum presents its "Fashions of the Forties” exhibit that features a variety of different looks that typified the 1940s. The exhibit runs through March 2018.
Haithem Zourrig, Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at Ը University at Stark, received the 2017 McGraw-Hill Education Distinguished Award at the 44th annual meeting of the Federation of Business Disciplines held in Little Rock, Arkansas, from March 8-11, 2017.
Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., School of Information, presented a poster titled “Continued Access to Hospital Patient Health Record Data in Long-Term Care” at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, on Feb. 21, 2017.
Pamela Rafferty-Semon, Jeremy Jarzembak and Jennifer Shanholtzer, College of Nursing, co-authored an online journal article titled “Simulating Complex Community Disaster Preparedness: Collaboration for Point of Distribution” in the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing (OJIN), Vol. 22, No. 1, in 2017.


Ը University's Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Todd Diacon announced the following leadership appointments:
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The Ը University Board of Trustees today established a comprehensive, national search to recruit and select the university’s 13th president.
The events of May 4, 1970, placed Ը University in an international spotlight after a student protest against the Vietnam War and the presence of the Ohio National Guard ended in tragedy with four students losing their lives and nine others being wounded. From a perspective of nearly 50 years, Ը remembers the tragedy and leads a contemporary discussion and understanding of how the community, nation and world can benefit from understanding the profound impact of the event.