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Today’s Flashes of Inspiration comes from Lisa Strom, ����ԭ��’s head women’s golf coach, who offers a pep talk to all in the university community struggling under the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Strom talks about finding ways to stick to a healthy routine, even as social distancing continues for months.    The Golden Flashes women’s golf team was ranked No. 5 in the nation when the pandemic forced an early end to college sports. The team was hoping to make a run at the national title, having already beaten No. 1 ranked Texas in late February at t...

Dear Golden Flashes, ����ԭ��’s reopening committees continue to work for a safe return to our campuses this fall. We plan to resume residential living and in-person classes in August, and we are developing several scenarios to ensure an outstanding and safe experience for our students, faculty and staff. Although we will be together in person, there will be notable differences during the next school year. Students will likely enroll in a combination of face-to-face and remotely taught courses. When possible, we will allow faculty who wish to teach in person to do so, w...

A native of England, Brent Hicks, M.S. ’19, the School of Information’s Alumnus of the Year, has been involved in the health information field for much of his life. After earning degrees in computer science and technology and design at Sheffield University in England, he took a job with the National Health Service (NHS) as a developer/programmer. “I jumped at the chance to work for the NHS, to actually have an impact on patient care,” he recalls. Years later, Brent applied for a Green Card to work in the United States for the Veteran’s Administration office in Chicago, programming electroni...

The ����ԭ�� Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting remotely on Wednesday, June 3, to consider the recommendations of the standing committees, proposed personnel actions and new business. All actions of the Board will be taken at this business meeting. Due to ongoing efforts to safeguard the health and safety of the community and directives by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to practice social distancing and limit in-person meetings, this meeting and the preceding standing committee meetings will be conducted virtually via Zoom Meetings. The meetings are being cond...

Two student journalism competitions have named ����ԭ�� students among the best in the nation for 2019-2020. In the Hearst Journalism Awards — often known as the Pulitzer Prize of collegiate journalism — ����ԭ�� placed seventh in the nation for radio/TV news and eighth in the nation for photojournalism. Placements were determined by the total number of points students earned in categorical competitions. Individually, senior journalism major Nathaniel Bailey will be one of six semifinalists in the nation competing in the Photo Championship. With the in-person competition ...

From making her mark on campus during Destination ����ԭ�� to joining the recreational skate team, Marissa Belock, a sophomore biology major, has already created so many amazing memories during her college career.Thanks to her mother and ����ԭ�� alumna, Lori Belock, ’86, these memories are now wrapped up in a beautiful quilt of blue and gold T-shirts. “I first saw a post on social media about a T-shirt quilt. I thought, ‘I can do that!’” Lori said. “This is my sixth T-shirt quilt and I get better every time.”  Lori included one of her daughter’s favorite ����ԭ�� T-shirts...

Experiencing the burn of a leather car seat in the heat of the summer or catching a nosy neighbor peering into your kitchen window could soon be things of the past with the new dual-mode liquid crystal smart glass material. Yingfei Jiang, a College of Arts and Science graduate student in the Chemical Physics program and the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute (AMLCI) at ����ԭ��, and his advisor Deng-Ke Yang, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Physics, have invented the first ever dual-mode smart glass technology that can control both radiant energy flow (he...

Today’s Flashes of Inspiration features David Hassler, director of ����ԭ��’s Wick Poetry Center, who is sharing the poem, “Thank You, Tree.” The poem was written by Fatou M’Baye, a fifth grade student at Holden Elementary School in Kent, in honor of a favorite tree that was on her school playground, where she would gather with her friends.   Hassler selected this poem to celebrate spring, Earth Day, and how all can enjoy and celebrate the beauty of nature even during a pandemic. The poem is features on the Wick Poetry Center’s Traveling Stanzas community poetry site, un...

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