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Ģý's Ohio Employee Ownership Center Office is located in McGilvery Hall.

Ģý’s Ohio Employee Ownership Center Hosts 31st Annual Ohio Employee Ownership Conference

Ģý’s Ohio Employee Ownership Center (OEOC) will host the 31st Annual Ohio Employee Ownership Conference on Friday, April 28, 2017, at the Hilton West in Fairlawn, Ohio. This year’s keynote speaker is Cindy Turcot, Chief Operating Officer of Gardener’s Supply Co. in Burlington, …

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Ģý Prof Weighs in on Liberal Arts Degrees and a Future Career as CEO

GoodCall talked with professors around the country about the use of liberal arts degrees and the skills that students use as a springboard to the next step in their education and career path.

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Ģý student Brooke Mullins stands in front of the Lordstown Fire Department – Station 36 in the Village of Lordstown, Ohio, where she serves as a volunteer firefighter.

Ģý Student Proves Height and Weight Do Not Determine Strength

Weighing in at barely 100 pounds, Brooke Mullins summoned every ounce of strength she had, and even more she didn’t. Her muscles were shaking; her mind – exhausted. The Ģý junior had one last shot at overcoming the most grueling portion of a physical exam. If she could pass it, Mu…

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Ģý Uses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence

Ģý Geographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence

Ģý researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.

Tags: Featured Story , Community & Society , Department of Geography , College of Sciences and Humanities , Research & Science

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Ģý Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new cancer cases diagnosed and 600,920 cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2017.

These numbers are stark and sobering, and worse yet, we still do not know exactly why cancer develops in its victims or how to stop it.

An online publication in Nature Nanotechnology this week by Ģý researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

Tags: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , College of Sciences and Humanities , Research & Science

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CACM Director Patrick Coy Publishes New Book Chapter

CACM Director Patrick Coy has published a chapter in a new book focused on constructive conflict management. Coy’s chapter, “Communication, Constructiveness, and Asymmetry in Nonviolent Action Theory and Practice,” is chapter two in Perspectives in Waging Conflicts Constructively…

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CACM Associate Professor Landon Hancock Publishes a New Edited Book

  CACM Associate Professor, Landon Hancock, has published a new edited book, his third, this one entitled:  "Narratives of Identity in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change,” Emerald Publishing Group, Bingley, UK, 2016.   http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/book/10.1108/S…

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Ģý geology professor is concerned about losing valuable government databases

Ģý Professor Weighs in on the Rush to Save Government Scientific Data

Ģý Professor Anne Jefferson expresses concern over losing valuable scientific data following proposed budget cuts.

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Ģý and SPCS Featured in College Magazine

In "Top 10 Schools for History Buffs" in College Magazine, Ģý is #4 on the list -- with a special mention of the School of Peace and Conflict Studies (then the Center for Applied Conflict Management) and the May 4 Task Force.   An SPCS major talks about he…

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