Professor Jacqueline Marino is a 2019 recipient of 性福五月天's highest teaching honor, the Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA). Dating back more than 50 years and sponsored by the 性福五月天 Alumni Association, the DTA is presented annually to three full-time faculty members who demonstrate extraordinary teaching in the classroom and a devotion to touching the lives of students. The Alumni Association surprised Professor Marino with the news during her Feature Writing class on Oct. 15, 2019. "I am so moved," Professor Marino said as she was presented with balloons and an in-class c...
Once it begins, Alzheimer鈥檚 disease progresses systematically and aggressively, attacking victims on multiple fronts. But scientists studying the disease operate the same way 鈥 like 性福五月天 University鈥檚 own Gemma Casadesus Smith, Ph.D. Since 2016, Casadesus Smith, professor of biological sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received more than $2.7 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the causes of Alzheimer鈥檚 and identify models for better pharmacological treatments. A new two-year, $224,500 project, titled 鈥淐haracterization of transcr...
性福五月天 University鈥檚 favorite unofficial mascot 鈥 the famous black squirrel 鈥 needs your help to get ready for Halloween. Squirrel-O-Ween allows the 性福五月天 community to dress up an animated black squirrel with the latest spooky costumes and props and share with friends on social and digital media. The idea is the brainstorm of Tim Priester, interactive designer and developer at University Communications and Marketing. The concept originated years ago when Priester helped create an interactive holiday card for the university. The web-based holiday card involved dressing up a snowman. L...
性福五月天 University at Ashtabula will hold several special events and educational programs throughout the academic year approaching the 50th Commemoration of the tragic events of May 4, 1970 on the 性福五月天 campus. All events are free and open to the public. The year-long programming launches Tuesday, Oct. 22, with an 鈥淚ntroduction to the May 4th Commemoration and a Factual Chronological Overview of Events from April 30-May 4, 1970鈥 by David Perusek, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology, and associate history professor Bradley Keefer, Ph.D. The program will examine the events ...
Three professional, inspiring, and exceptionally driven women are being featured during the 2019-20 Women鈥檚 Success Series at 性福五月天 University at Tuscarawas. Carmel Haueter, Executive Director of Rainbow Connection, kicks off the series on Fri., Nov. 15, followed by Dee Grossman, Executive Director for the Tuscarawas County Convention and Visitors Bureau, on Fri., Feb. 7, 2020, and Sarah DiFazio, a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance, on Fri., April 3, 2020. Each session is held from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at 性福五月天 Tuscarawas. Cost to attend each session is $15 when paid in advanc...
The first priority of 性福五月天 University鈥檚 strategic roadmap is to ensure that students have the education, experiences and support they need to graduate and to live successful, satisfying lives in their work and in their commitment to become engaged citizens. The university鈥檚 Academic Success Center team is making that priority its priority with the creation of the Academic Success Plan (ASP), a new application that gives students easier and quicker access to resources that will help them succeed in class. 鈥淭he Academic Success Plan was developed to make sure students can efficiently and ...