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Wayne College awarded $1 million for jobs training
The grant will enable displaced workers and unemployed students to prepare for careers in information technology network security training, where strong job growth is expected in the next decade.
10/17/2011
Faculty and Staff,Current Students,College of Engineering and Polymer Science
Engineering students bring new life to broken toys
Engineering students regularly hold workshops to repair everything from inoperable remote-control cars to voiceless Teddy Ruxpins for Northeast Ohio children with special needs.
10/17/2011
online newsroom,Faculty and Staff,Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology professor receives national award
Dr. Robert Lord is the 2012 recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
10/14/2011
online newsroom,College of Engineering and Polymer Science
Clean Energy Challenge — what are your good ideas?
Disciplines ranging from engineering and biology to business and law are needed as UA students and faculty rise to the 2012 Clean Energy Challenge issued by the U.S. Department of Energy.
10/14/2011
Faculty and Staff,Current Students,College of Creative and Professional Arts
Terry Winters speaking Oct. 20 for Synapse series on bio-mimicry
The UA lecture will be hosted at the Akron Art Museum, located near campus at One South High Street.
10/13/2011
Faculty and Staff,Current Students,College of Creative and Professional Arts
Children express hopes through art show at Haven of Rest
Unique exhibit of artwork by women and children was guided by UA alumna Aimee Sauls.
10/12/2011
online newsroom,Faculty and Staff,Current Students
George W. Knepper Annual Endowed Lecture is Oct. 20
"West of Sex: Mexicans and the American Legal System" is the title for the Oct. 20 lecture.
10/11/2011
Summit College,online newsroom,Faculty and Staff
UA partners with KSU and YSU to create technical education center
With a $432,558 grant from the Ohio Department of Education and the Ohio Board of Regents, UA, Kent State and Youngstown State will establish the East Central Region College TechPrep/Program of Study ...
10/10/2011
Mary Schiller Myers School of Art,Current Students,College of Creative and Professional Arts
Oct. 12 lecture by photographer who explores body image
The University of Akron’s Bidwell Photography Series presents free lecture by Akron native Jen Davis Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 6 p.m.
10/10/2011
Faculty and Staff,Current Students,Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences
UA students preview MLK Memorial in nation's capital
Thirty-six University of Akron students shared the unique opportunity of touring the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C., and then several wrote about what it symbolizes fo...
10/7/2011