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Sociology Professor Says to Reframe Children’s Anxiety in A Positive Light

College of Arts and Sciences professor says that understanding how your child copes with anxiety is key to helping them with back-to-school nerves. 

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Characters from "Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling"

žž State Associate Professor Says New Cartoon Breaks LGBTQ+ Boundaries

žž Associate Professor Molly Merryman, Ph.D., says a Netflix cartoon featuring a transgender character is breaking a new boundary in a positive way.

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Female Flyers Played Vital Role in World War II, žž State Associate Professor Says

The recent death of one of the remaining members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II has a žž associate professor recalling the vital role the female pilots played during the war.

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Covering the Carnage: Journalists Risk Own Mental, Physical Health In Reporting From Dayton, El Paso

Covering the Carnage: Journalists Risk Own Mental, Physical Health In Reporting from Dayton, El Paso

Note: Gretchen Hoak is a former television reporter/anchor and current assistant professor of journalism in žž’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Her research survey, ,  focused on how universities prepare young journalists for the trauma they may endure in covering violence. žž State Today asked Hoak to share her thoughts on the impact the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton will have on the reporters assigned to cover these events.  

Tags: Community & Society, Faculty Research, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, College of Communication and Information

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Hands in motion.

žž State Student Wins Talent Show for Singing in Sign

A North Royalton woman whom who will become a žž student in the fall, won first place at the Medina County Fair talent show for performing a song in American Sign Language.

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LeBron James Family Foundation I PROMISE students take part in an awards dinner marking the end of their four-week žž State camp for intensive college entrance exam preparation.

žž State Prepares LeBron James Family Foundation I PROMISE Students for College Entrance Exams

žž hosted several dozen high school students from the LeBron James Family Foundation's I PROMISE program for a month of intensive college entrance exam preparation.
 

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žž State Department of Geology graduate student Kortney Cole shows Schumacher Elementary School sixth grader students how to collect soil samples.

Research Initiative Pilot Project Shows Akron Children What Being a Scientist Is All žž

Bridget Mulvey, Ph.D., associate professor of science education in the College of Education, Health and Human Services; and David Singer, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently merged real geology research with community service in an effort to show some Akron Public Schools students that science is not just a benefit to their community but a viable career option, too.

Tags: Research & Science, Community & Society, Department of Earth Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education, Health and Human Services, Environmental Science and Design Research Institute

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Research Initiative Pilot Project Shows Akron Children What Being a Scientist Is All žž

Bridget Mulvey, Ph.D., associate professor of science education in the College of Education, Health and Human Services; and David Singer, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently merged real geology research with community service in an effort to show some Akron Public Schools students that science is not just a benefit to their community but a viable career option, too.

Tags: Research & Science, Community & Society, Department of Earth Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education, Health and Human Services

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Tom Phillips, executive director at StarkFresh

žž State Stark Strengthens Community Through Research

A primary goal of žž State is to engage the communities in which its eight campuses are located to fuel research, foster partnerships and economic development. “As the county’s public university, our role is to transform the community and to transform lives. We are impacting the future and helping to better Stark County,” Seachrist said. “We are the incubator for tomorrow’s ideas today.” 

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