Profiles - Inspiring Individuals & Stories
A new study led by ºÚÁÏÉç’s David Costello finds that trace metals — not just nitrogen and phosphorus — frequently limit biological productivity in freshwater streams, with implications for waterways across Northeast Ohio and beyond.
We catch up with senior physical education and sport performance major Julia Michalak between student-teaching classes during her final semester at ºÚÁÏÉç. In a brief Q&A-style interview reflecting on her trials and triumphs from the past four years, Michalak offers some wise words for her younger self and for future Golden Flashes.
ºÚÁÏÉç Grounds Manager Rebekkah "Bekkah" Berryhill came to ºÚÁÏÉç to get a teaching degree. What she learned while working as a student groundskeeper helped her find her passion and lasting happiness in the outdoors.
Laura Davis, Ph.D., co-founder and first director of ºÚÁÏÉç’s May 4 Visitors Center, was recently named a Woman of the Year by the Summit County Historical Society. Davis was a first-year student at ºÚÁÏÉç on May 4, 1970, and she shares her journey to becoming an activist and what people today can learn from America’s history of protest.
When Sydney Brown arrived at ºÚÁÏÉç as a first-year student from Avon, Ohio, she didn't wait to get started. She walked into the TV2 newsroom — now ºÚÁÏÉçr TV — and introduced herself. That instinct to show up, dive in and tell stories has defined every semester since.