University News
America’s ‘Top Turnaround Mayor’ to Speak at Â鶹ӰԺ State on Nov. 19
Mitch Landrieu, the New Orleans mayor who oversaw the removal of the city’s prominent Confederate monuments and helped his city to recover and reemerge from a series of natural disasters, will speak at Â鶹ӰԺ State as part of the university’s May 4 Speaker Series.
New Academic Application Launched to Better Serve Â鶹ӰԺ State Students
The first priority of Â鶹ӰԺ’s 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’s 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.
Student Voting Rate Skyrockets in Recent Years
While student voting nationwide doubled since 2014, the Â鶹ӰԺ student voting rate has increased 135% from 2014 to 2018, according to a recent report from the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement, conducted by the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education at Tufts University’s Tisch College of Civic Life.
Â鶹ӰԺ State Magazine: Design Innovation Hub Launches
Â鶹ӰԺ celebrated the launch of a dynamic new space, the Design Innovation (DI) Hub, in May that will bring innovations from many disciplines together in a 68,000 square foot building near the center of the Â鶹ӰԺ Campus.
From Badgers to Golden Flashes: Â鶹ӰԺ State’s President, Wife and Head Football Coach Share Connection With Two Universities
Even Â鶹ӰԺ’s highest-ranking officials can experience a tug on their loyalties when the Golden Flashes take on their alma maters in athletic contests. President Todd Diacon, his wife, Moema Furtado, and head football coach Sean Lewis all will experience that dual loyalty on Saturday when Â鶹ӰԺ State faces the University of Wisconsin-Madison at noon at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison.
Â鶹ӰԺ State Nursing Alumna Reflects on May 4 Tragedy
In the spring of 1970, two-time Â鶹ӰԺ alumna and registered nurse Pat Gless was a junior in Â鶹ӰԺ State’s inaugural nursing program. While in class on Monday, May 4, a professor rushed into her classroom and warned students who could leave campus to do so. Fifty years later, Gless now reflects on the events surrounding that tragedy and how they have impacted her life and nursing career.
Â鶹ӰԺ State Debuts New TV Commercial Produced Entirely In-House
An ecology student testing water in a river. A nursing student assisting a patient. A music student performing onstage. These are just three of the 30 Â鶹ӰԺ students featured in the new Â鶹ӰԺ State TV commercial that was developed and produced entirely in-house by Â鶹ӰԺ State staff members who are all Â鶹ӰԺ State graduates.
Flashes Sign Team IMPACT Recruit Mary Alice Tryda
Â鶹ӰԺ field hockey coach Kyle DeSandes-Moyer is pleased to announce the signing of 10-year-old Mary Alice Tryda through Team IMPACT to the Â鶹ӰԺ State field hockey team.
Ascendium Grant Will Streamline Transfers and Increase Student Retention, Graduations
The pathway from a two-year college to Â鶹ӰԺ will soon become an easier road to travel for Ohio students, thanks to a grant awarded to Â鶹ӰԺ State to collaborate with three Ohio community colleges to streamline the transfer process.
Â鶹ӰԺ State Celebrates Homecoming
On Saturday, Sept. 21, the Â鶹ӰԺ fight song blared down Main Street, the city of Â鶹ӰԺ was flooded with blue and gold, alumni and friends gathered and reminisced about their Â鶹ӰԺ State days, fans packed the stadium to cheer on their beloved Golden Flashes and the entire campus boomed with Â鶹ӰԺ State pride.