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FirstEnergy Stadium–Cub Cadet Field is new name for soccer venue
FirstEnergy Corporation's latest gift to UA will be the catalyst for a construction project to add more than 300 seats, permanent restrooms and a concession stand to the soccer facility. Construction ...
06/15/2011
online newsroom,Faculty and Staff,Current Students
UA's new outdoor classroom offers food for thought and the plate
The harvest begins! One month after the first phase of UA's Culinary Teaching Garden was planted in the Schrank Hall South courtyard, students in Mary Lynn Crowley's Meal Management class are gathe...
06/10/2011
online newsroom,Accepted Students
New Student Orientation under way
To our incoming Class of 2015 — welcome! When you arrive on campus for your day of New Student Orientation, be prepared for a day packed with information and fun as you learn what it takes to be a suc...
06/9/2011
online newsroom
Innovative program gives high school students a true college experience
The Oelschlager Summer Leadership Institute at The University of Akron, now in its 11th year, offers promising high school students a chance to experience college life for a week.
06/2/2011
online newsroom,Graduate School,Faculty and Staff
UA vice president is named a Science Academy Fellow
Dr. George Newkome is one of five Ohioans to receive the distinction for rendering special services to the Ohio Academy of Science.
05/31/2011
Summit College,Psychology,online newsroom
Tavis Smiley's new book has UA tie
Arrogance and job performance clash, says UA's Stanley Silverman, an industrial psych expert noted in "Fail Up," the newest book from author and political commentator Tavis Smiley.
05/31/2011
online newsroom,Home Page,Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences
Professor to advise U.N. on family structures
Dr. Baffour Takyi has been called to offer his expertise on the structure of families at the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on June 1-3 at the U.N. headquarters in New York.
05/27/2011
online newsroom,No Display,Home Page
Oelschlager gift will help close 'literacy gap'
Author Vanita Oelschlager's donation of 9,000 books to the Center for Literacy will support literacy programs in local schools and agencies.
05/26/2011
online newsroom,Faculty and Staff
Alan Newman Receives 2011 Outstanding Professor of the Year Award
Members of the UA School of Law's graduating class presented the award at their commencement ceremony.
05/20/2011
online newsroom,Faculty and Staff
Jane Campbell Moriarty Receives the 2011 Scholar of the Year Award
Longtime School of Law faculty member is chosen for the honor by students.
05/20/2011
