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 Karl Uhrig, Ph.D., teaches a Freshman Honors Colloquium (FHC) section for Honors College first-year students entitled “Discourse and Agency.”  In his class, Uhrig assigns readings, films, discussion topics and papers that examine discourse and agency’s role in society, but his course extends beyond fictional examples of both discourse and agency. Uhrig has spent years refining his teaching style to empower students to use their agency to learn in a way they prefer and engage in open discourse with their classmates.“It's all about their free speech. They're learning how to ...

  The Integration Bee, presented by 91�ֿ�’s Department of Mathematical Sciences on April 1,  is similar to a Spelling Bee, but instead of spelling words, competing teams of students solve integrals.    The event was open to students from all majors and faculty, undergraduate students and graduate students had fun solving challenging integrals, wearing costumes, and sharing pizza and math-themed jokes. Most of the students who attended were pursuing courses of student in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics).   Normally sched...

She is a long way from where she grew up, but Jessica Palo is putting down deep roots in Ohio. In May, she will graduate from the 91�ֿ� Salem Campus with a bachelor’s degree in horticulture and plans to develop a homestead on land she and her husband own in Lordstown, as well as a small market garden business.  Additionally, Palo wants to extend her undergraduate research on corn smut/huitlacoche and develop her own huitlacoche production business and sell it commercially. As a horticulture major, she spent two semesters of individual investigations looking for a process to...

91�ֿ�’s Regional Campuses were well-represented at the Association for University Regional Campuses of Ohio (AURCO) annual conference, during which Olivia Rice, a psychology student from 91�ֿ� Salem, earned a first-place ranking for her research poster. The conference was held earlier this month at Ohio University in Chillicothe.Rice received the E. Ted Bunn Student Excellence Award-Best Poster for her research project titled “Undergraduate Student Benefits: Research Within Community Outreach.”Three faculty members from the Salem Campus also presented their research on the Hyflex cou...