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¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø congratulates its newest graduates. Summer 2013 commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus were held Aug. 17 at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø conferred 1,593 degrees, including 836 bachelor’s degrees, 455 master’s degrees, 83 doctoral degrees, 198 associate degrees and 21 educational specialist degrees. ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø congratulates its newest graduates. Summer 2013 commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus were held Aug. 17 at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center).

Scholar of the Month Yanhai Du Assistant Professor of Energy and Industrial Technology College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology 2013-present

Scholar of the Month Hai Dinh Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences Regional College ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø at Trumbull 2004-present Hai Dinh is an associate professor of mathematical sciences at ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø at Trumbull. His research interests include Algebraic Coding Theory and Ring and Module Theory.

¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Libraries held its Stress-Free Zone event on Monday, Dec. 9, and Tuesday, Dec. 10, on the first floor of the University Library. The Stress-Free Zone offered the opportunity for a study break for students and an avenue to reduce stress for faculty and staff members as the fall semester comes to an end. Pet therapy dogs returned this year to help ease the stress of finals week. There was free popcorn and beverages for all.

The ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Esplanade will be named the Lester A. Lefton Esplanade honoring ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø President Lefton. The announcement was made Friday, Oct. 4, by Jane Murphy Timken, chair of the ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Board of Trustees, at a community event held at the new University Esplanade arch near Main and Willow streets in Kent. The event celebrated the solid partnership between ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø and the city of Kent and the official opening of the University Esplanade extension that now connects the university to downtown Kent.

Graduate students from ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, the combined home of the urban design graduate program and the public service activities of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, won the Excellence in Student Planning Award from the American Planning Association of Ohio (APA-Ohio) on Sept. 27, 2013.

After a nearly yearlong planning process, ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø’s College of Nursing and the MetroHealth System have collaborated to now offer clinical experiences aboard Metro Life Flight to ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø graduate nursing students in the acute care nurse practitioner concentration. The new clinical experiences started this fall semester.

¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø held its annual Veterans Day observance on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 11 a.m. on the Student Green at Risman Plaza. The outdoor program included a flag-raising ceremony conducted by a joint color guard from the Army and Air Force ROTC programs, and remarks from ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø President Lester A. Lefton.

¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø senior music performance major Yang Zeng has been offered a contract to be part of the first violin section of the Akron Symphony. Zeng, originally from Kunming, Yunnan, China, has been a student at ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø’s Hugh A. Glauser School of Music since 2010. He started studying music at age 6.

For the second year in a row, ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø’s TV2 has taken top honors in the College Media Association’s (CMA) Pinnacle Awards, earning the 2013 TV Station of the Year award at the CMA National College Media Convention in New Orleans. TV2 is ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø’s nationally award-winning, high-definition digital TV station. The Agenda, TV2’s topical comedy-satire show, also won Best TV Entertainment Program.