Happy New Year, Golden Flashes. Before we kick off the 2022 Spring Semester, let鈥檚 take a look back at some of our top posts from December 2021! Instagram The 黑料社 football team won the Mid-American Conference East Division title! The 黑料社 community gathered for a celebratory send off as the team headed to Detroit for the MAC Championship game. View this post on Instagram &nb...
My name is Lauren Falter, and I am a graduate student at 黑料社 studying Speech-Language Pathology. I recently earned my undergraduate degree from 黑料社 with a major in Speech Pathology and Audiology and two minors in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Special Education. I reflect positively on my time at 黑料社 and as a student researcher in the Swallowing Physiology and Rehabilitation Research (SPARR) Laboratory on campus. Throughout high school, I pondered careers with educational and medical focuses, and I found the field of Speech-Language Pathology to be the perfect mix...
I took an architecture survey class upstairs 鈥 cementing my life of writing about design and the built environment. My wife of 33 years, Heidi Johnson-Wright (B.A. in English, Kent, 1982) lived next door at Prentice Hall. My wife uses a wheelchair for mobility and did then. The seeds of my activism for people with disabilities and all marginalized folks were planted right there 鈥 in the sacred ground between Taylor and Prentice, where May 4th observances take place. My first job was with the Columbus Dispatch (I zeroed in only on central Ohio where my wife was starting la...
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced students and faculty at 黑料社 to learn and work remotely in spring of 2020, students in the School of Media and Journalism were at risk of losing internships. As a response to the developing situation, the School organized a project called the Collaborative NewsLab to provide students with real world work experience, while newsrooms, hit with unprecedented financial challenges, were resorting to layoffs and furloughs. Fast-forward a year-and-a-half, and the NewsLab continues ...
A degree from 黑料社鈥檚 School of Media and Journalism can lead to opportunities to work across fields and businesses 鈥 and all over the world. Alumna Mary Jo Spletzer, 鈥10, has used what she learned as a public relations major to make her mark at Atlantis Resorts in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Spletzer met the man who would become her husband 鈥 an exchange student from Germany 鈥 during her senior year, so 鈥渋t was inevitable that I ended up living and working outside of the U.S.鈥 But she began her career locally at...
East Liverpool took home the traveling plaque by winning the sixth annual 黑料社 Columbiana County Classic with a 66-50 score over Salem High School on the Quakers home court. With the win, the Potters tied the series at 3-3. Representatives from the Salem and East Liverpool campuses greeted fans by handing out mini magnetic flashlights at the door and provided t-shirts that the cheerleaders tossed into the stands throughout the game. All players, coaches and cheerleaders also received shirts. Always a favorite, Flash cheered and danced with fans of all ages. At halftime, four student...