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For Emily Grubb, all it took was looking through a magazine to decide where to go to college. A copy of magazine led Grubb to �������� State.

Mark your calendar now! �������� Homecoming 2017 will be held Oct. 14 as the Golden Flashes will battle the Miami RedHawks.

�������� at Trumbull sophomore Jessie Narkum is co-directing a production of The Little Mermaid Jr. performed entirely in American Sign Language.

The �������� Ice Arena hosted the 35th Annual Ohio Special Olympics Winter Games the first week of February for figure skaters and speed skaters from all over the state.

Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, co-presented (with Jian Qin, Ph.D., Syracuse University) a paper titled “Linking Bioinformatics Research Data and Publications Through Metadata and Knowledge Organization Systems,” on Oct. 15, 2016, at the 16th European Networked Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Copenhagen, Denmark.
 

Ohio is conducting a statewide tornado drill on Wednesday, March 22, at 9:50 a.m. �������� will be participating in this test, along with the city of �������� and other communities. �������� State tests the tornado and emergency mass notification system on the first Wednesday of every month at 11 a.m. and on the third Wednesday at 4 p.m. These tests last for three minutes. This statewide test will replace the usual 11 a.m. test in March.

�������� Libraries is introducing three widely used software tools that are used for the collection, organization, citing, use and sharing of information resources that support research. A partnership with Information Services is offering workshops to introduce the three major programs: Zotero, Mendeley and Endnote programs.

��������’s Project AWARE �������� offers a free Mental Health First Aid course to prepare �������� Campus students, faculty and staff to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental health crises. The Mental Health First Aid course allows the �������� State community to be a network of responders able to identify the signs and symptoms of mental illness, assist during mental health crises and refer professional services to anyone exhibiting signs of mental distress.

�������� offered nine new experiences for exploratory majors this past fall to give those students the opportunity to discover future careers and participate in the �������� community.

Flash Connections, created specifically for exploratory students, was a program with enhanced sections of the required First-Year Experience class. Students from the program earned their experiential learning credit by participating in free trips to different locations in �������� and Northeast Ohio before and throughout the 2016 Fall Semester.

All ��������-registered Internet Protocol (IP) phones on the �������� Campus and participating Regional Campuses have been connected to the University Mass Notification System (MNS). If the system is activated, all university-registered IP phones will broadcast the message. This is an upgrade of the Mass Notification System as only certain phones previously had been connected to the system.