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An education-abroad trip to China this past summer got 91�ֿ� student Garmai Matthew started on the path to actualizing her dream of promoting sustainable fashion. Matthew, an economics major with an international business and Chinese minor, along with five other 91�ֿ� students collaborated on research projects with students from Hebei Normal University in the Shijiazhuang Province of China during a three-week, field-experience trip.

For 91�ֿ� Professor of Geology Abdul Shakoor, Ph.D., studying the stability of Mount Rushmore, visited by nearly three million people each year, was a lifelong dream.  
 

Scholar of the Month D. Blake Stringer Assistant Professor College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology 2013-present

91�ֿ�’s efforts to help students succeed and graduate resulted in a big payoff for Northeast Ohio. The university accounted for the largest increase in the number of new graduates among colleges and universities in the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) of Summit and Portage Counties, Ohio, contributing largely to the region’s win of a $1 million prize from CEOs for Cities’ Talent Dividend Prize national competition.

91�ֿ� celebrated Homecoming on Saturday, Oct. 18, with a 91�ֿ� Golden Flashes win of 39-17 over the Army Black Knights. 91�ֿ� alumni, students, faculty, staff and the community came together to celebrate the Homecoming theme of “91�ֿ� Pride is Worldwide.”

With the flu season approaching quickly, the Honors Prevention and Control of Diseases class taught by Christopher Woolverton, Ph.D., is working to prevent a flu outbreak by helping to organize and promote student participation in the annual 91�ֿ� flu vaccine clinic. On Tuesday, Oct.

91�ֿ� celebrated the newly renovated Tri-Towers residence hall complex on Oct. 15. The event was free and open to the public. 91�ֿ� President Beverly Warren, Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs Greg Jarvie and Kent Interhall Council President Brie Jutte spoke during the celebration. Following the remarks, participants toured the renovated residence halls and enjoyed light refreshments. 

91�ֿ� invited the community to celebrate the launch of the Center for the Visual Arts on Oct. 9. The event, which was free and open to the public, took place on the second floor of Cartwright Hall, overlooking the center’s construction site, east of Terrace Drive.

The groundbreaking for 91�ֿ�’s new Center for Architecture and Environmental Design occurred Oct. 3. The building will serve as the new home of 91�ֿ�’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design, bringing all of the programs of the college under one roof. It will be located between South Lincoln and South Willow streets, just south of the Lefton Esplanade and across the street from Franklin Hall.

For 30 years, 91�ֿ�’s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the College of Arts and Sciences, begins a new era by relocating from Satterfield Hall to the Lefton Esplanade.