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Psychology Professor Tells O, The Oprah Magazine How Black Women Suffer from Financial Anxiety

Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, says there is a stressful expectation for black women in corporate America to financially provide for their family.

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Sociology Professor Says to Reframe Children鈥檚 Anxiety in A Positive Light

College of Arts and Sciences professor says that understanding how your child copes with anxiety is key to helping them with back-to-school nerves. 

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青年涩导航's "We the People" Exhibition on Display near the Esplanade Arch in May 2019

Acclaimed Photography Exhibition Returns to Kent Campus

青年涩导航 is pleased and proud to announce the return of 鈥We the People,鈥 a photography exhibition that shines a light on our common humanity.

Tags: Community & Society, Arts & Culture, Global Understanding Research Initiative, Division of Research and Sponsored Programs, Refugee Crisis, refugees, College of Arts and Sciences, College of the Arts, College Communication and Information, akron, City of Kent

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Characters from "Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling"

青年涩导航 Associate Professor Says New Cartoon Breaks LGBTQ+ Boundaries

青年涩导航 Associate Professor Molly Merryman, Ph.D., says a Netflix cartoon featuring a transgender character is breaking a new boundary in a positive way.

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青年涩导航's fleet includes this airplane.

Female Flyers Played Vital Role in World War II, 青年涩导航 Associate Professor Says

The recent death of one of the remaining members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II has a 青年涩导航 associate professor recalling the vital role the female pilots played during the war.

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Covering the Carnage: Journalists Risk Own Mental, Physical Health In Reporting From Dayton, El Paso

Covering the Carnage: Journalists Risk Own Mental, Physical Health In Reporting from Dayton, El Paso

Note: Gretchen Hoak is a former television reporter/anchor and current assistant professor of journalism in 青年涩导航鈥檚 School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Her research survey, ,  focused on how universities prepare young journalists for the trauma they may endure in covering violence. 青年涩导航 Today asked Hoak to share her thoughts on the impact the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton will have on the reporters assigned to cover these events.  

Tags: Community & Society, Faculty Research, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, College of Communication and Information

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Hands in motion.

青年涩导航 Student Wins Talent Show for Singing in Sign

A North Royalton woman whom who will become a 青年涩导航 student in the fall, won first place at the Medina County Fair talent show for performing a song in American Sign Language.

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LeBron James Family Foundation I PROMISE students take part in an awards dinner marking the end of their four-week 青年涩导航 camp for intensive college entrance exam preparation.

青年涩导航 Prepares LeBron James Family Foundation I PROMISE Students for College Entrance Exams

青年涩导航 hosted several dozen high school students from the LeBron James Family Foundation's I PROMISE program for a month of intensive college entrance exam preparation.
 

Tags: Community & Society, Office of the Provost, Success Story

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青年涩导航 Department of Geology graduate student Kortney Cole shows Schumacher Elementary School sixth grader students how to collect soil samples.

Research Initiative Pilot Project Shows Akron Children What Being a Scientist Is All About

Bridget Mulvey, Ph.D., associate professor of science education in the College of Education, Health and Human Services; and David Singer, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently merged real geology research with community service in an effort to show some Akron Public Schools students that science is not just a benefit to their community but a viable career option, too.

Tags: Research & Science, Community & Society, Department of Earth Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education, Health and Human Services, Environmental Science and Design Research Institute

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Research Initiative Pilot Project Shows Akron Children What Being a Scientist Is All About

Bridget Mulvey, Ph.D., associate professor of science education in the College of Education, Health and Human Services; and David Singer, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently merged real geology research with community service in an effort to show some Akron Public Schools students that science is not just a benefit to their community but a viable career option, too.

Tags: Research & Science, Community & Society, Department of Earth Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education, Health and Human Services

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