Additional 2017 award winners include:
“When students talk about what makes CSU special, they put our outstanding faculty and staff at the top of the list,” Berkman adds. “The dedication and the commitment of these individuals makes us who we are as an institution.”
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The Washkewicz Scholars Program provides full academic scholarships for undergraduate students in an engineering discipline, including civil, mechanical, electrical, computer or chemical engineering.
“CSU is committed to developing first-in-class education, research and Engaged Learning opportunities that will continue to ensure that we are graduating ‘ready-to-go’ Engineers,’” added Anette M. Karlsson, dean of the Washkewicz College of Engineering at CSU. “We would like to thank the Washkewiczes for their sustained commitment to this goal and to the continued elevation of CSU as a premier urban university.”
Donald Washkewicz graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from Cleveland State in 1972 and joined Parker Hannifin in the same year. He rose up through the ranks to ultimately serve as the company’s chairman and chief executive officer, retiring in 2016. In recognition of Donald and Pamela Washkewicz’s significant contributions to CSU, the University named the College of Engineering in their honor.
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The Cleveland Rocks Awards, which were created in 2002, seek to promote excellence in local public relations and marketing and acknowledge outstanding campaigns incorporating sound research, planning, execution and evaluation. The Public Relations Society of America is the nation’s largest professional organization serving the communications community. Its 30,000 members are comprised of communications professionals spanning every industry sector nationwide and college and university students who encompass the Public Relations Student Society of America.
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The Summit offers sessions tailored to both educators and businesses as well as general sessions where the two groups will learn together. Conversations include:
The Summit will bring together business community representatives and educators to discuss how to increase and improve internship opportunities in Northeast Ohio. Summit attendees will learn internship program best practices and discuss the value of internships for employers, students and educators.
“Having a skilled and prepared workforce is essential to an organization’s success,” said Joe Roman, President and CEO of the GCP. “The businesses we support continue to stress the need to build a strong talent pipeline for our region. Providing real-world experience through experiential learning opportunities, like internships, enhances the continued success of our companies. The Summit is part of a broader workforce development initiative to address growing the region’s talent pipeline as part of our strategic plan.”
Cleveland State University (CSU) President Ronald Berkman supports efforts to help students in the region advance their careers by obtaining internships.
“CSU provides comprehensive engaged learning opportunities for our students to ensure they receive the education and training, in the classroom, the laboratory and in the community, that will help them succeed in their chosen profession,” Berkman said. “An internship is an excellent tool in accomplishing this goal, giving students an opportunity to test his or her knowledge in the workplace while gaining real-world experience.”
Speakers from several local and national companies and other organizations will also be participating including: Gallup, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Westfield Group, Cleveland State University, Jumpstart, Global Cleveland, and Walter Haverfield, LLP. The event is presented in cooperation with generous supporting sponsors Cuyahoga Community College and Union Home Mortgage.
Click here for more information or call 216.592.2385 or email events@gcpartnership.com with any questions.
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The Dynamics of Political Communication is published by Routledge Press and builds on the first edition of the book which Perloff completed in 2014.
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“I would like to thank AOTA for this honor and hope that this recognition continues to shine the spotlight on the growing importance of promoting positive mental health in all schools across the nation,” Bazyk says.
Bazyk has also been effective in fostering leadership in the OT practitioners she works with. Since 2010, her team has presented over 50 platform presentations at the local, state, and national levels. Furthermore, interest in building capacity of OT practitioners to address children's mental health continues to grow throughout the U.S. Currently, Bazyk is the project director of a New Hampshire Department of Education funded initiative in collaboration with the New Hampshire Occupational Therapy Association to build capacity for the state’s OTs to address the mental health needs of children in school settings (2016-2017).
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She also returned to CSU, enrolling in the Center for Educational Leadership’s Education Policy Fellowship program in 2015. The fellowship is a 12-month professional development program for emerging leaders in education, with a focus on federal education policy and management training. It is sponsored by the Institute for Educational Leadership, and CSU is currently one of 16 host sites nationally.
“The EPFP helped me deepen my leadership skills and learn more about the qualities that sustain leaders during times of conflict,” Pomerantz says. “It has taken a 22-year veteran teacher and expanded my classroom skills to become a leader in education policy, while deepening my confidence and ability to analyze educational trends that maximize student growth.”
Pomerantz has continued to be involved with the program since graduating in 2016 and recently served on an EPFP delegation to China. She visited schools in Beijing, Chongqing, Chengdu and Shanghai and met with officials from the Ministry of Education to discuss educational reforms being undertaken in both nations and the potential for further knowledge exchanges and partnerships.
“Throughout my career, CSU has been my go-to place to deepen my skills and improve my understanding of the local, statewide and now global world of education,” Pomerantz adds.
At a Glance
Legends of the Law Panelists
Panel I: Legends of Business
Panel II: Legends in Academics
Panel III: Legends from the Bench
Panel IV: Legends from the Bar
Moderator: Dean Lee Fisher, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
CSU’s Master of Arts in Global Interactions program is dedicated to high quality scholarship and education in international politics, global economics and the growing interconnectedness of our world. The program provides students with cutting edge instruction and engaged learning opportunities, which will assist them in developing the skills needed to serve as leaders in our modern, globalized marketplace.
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“3D bioprinting has tremendous applications in numerous areas that could transform everything from drug development to treatment of individual patients by creating biomimetic human tissues using cells from the patient,” Dr. Lee says. “We are very excited at the potential opportunities the technology provides to improve toxicity testing, and are honored the EPA has selected our research for this recognition.”
The EPA launched the Transform Toxicity Testing Challenge along with, the National Institutes of Health and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences in 2016. It asked teams of scientists to develop techniques to retrofit existing HTS assays to incorporate processes that reflect how chemicals are broken down and metabolized by the body. Stage two winners were asked to produce practical designs based on their stage one theoretical frameworks. Honorees received a $100,000 prize.
To learn more about the Challenge and the EPA’s environmental research, visit https://www.epa.gov/innovation/announcing-transform-toxicity-testing-challenge-stage-two-winners.
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With audience feedback like, “…well-done in all ways!” and “CSU theatre productions are always incredible,” you do not want to miss the final weekend.
THE STORY
On the night of his 35th birthday, confirmed bachelor, Robert, contemplates his unmarried state. Over the course of a series of events, the habitually single Robert is forced to question his adamant retention of bachelorhood during a hilarious array of interactions.
THE CAST
Cheyenne Bizon (JOANNE), Sarah Blubaugh (AMY), Machala Comenschek (JENNY), Chace Coulter (LARRY), Antonio DeJesus (PAUL), Bridgette Dona (KATHY), Alexa Fatheringham (MARTA), Rebekah Ferro (The VOCAL MINORITY), Mary Gilchrist (The VOCAL MINORITY), Frank Ivancic (ROBERT), Malik Jones (PETER), Steven Livingston (HARRY), Brooke Myers (SUSAN), Jylian Purtee (The VOCAL MINORITY), Elizabeth Samsa (APRIL), Jamie K. Satterfield (The VOCAL MINORITY), Elizabeth Stewart (SARAH), and Eric Wloszek (DAVID).
For more information about GoBabyGo at CSU, visit //www.bulut-turizm.com/sciences/health-sciences/gobabygo-csu.
The new three-year grant from NSF will be utilized to set up a research practice partnership to study implementation in the CMSD, including quality of instruction and accessibility to all students. It will produce district-level data on the impact of computer science courses on students’ overall learning and ability, and will be used to inform how these courses can be scaled across the state.
“The ultimate goal of this initiative is to ensure all students in CMSD are fully prepared to succeed in the 21st Century economy and contribute to the betterment of society as a whole,” Jackson, associate professor in the College of Education and Human Services, adds.
The CSforCLE project is part of a national network of projects with convergent goals. October 16-17, 2017, the nationwide community of computer science educators, researchers, activists, and supporters will convene at the 2017 CSforAll Summit to celebrate progress and announce new commitments to reach the goal of access to inclusive, rigorous, and sustainable computer science education for all US students both in and out of school. Commitments from more than 100 organizations will be announced. The CSforAll Summit is organized by the CSforALL Consortium, a collaborative community of more than 400 partner organizations, and the national hub for the Computer Science for All movement. Details at www.csforall.org.
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Since starting with nine students in 2012, the Ohio Export Internship Program has graduated 190 students and generated over $20 million in estimated export sales for Ohio companies. To date, it has also led to 23 full-time job offers and 39 extended internships.
For more information about the Ohio Export Internship program, visit www.eip.development.ohio.gov.
”We are pleased to provide the opportunity for students to expand their liberal arts education through experiences outside the classroom, as they grow in understanding how to live in communities and lead through transformational change,” says Bonnie Raquet
“We hope that the students who benefit from this fund, upon graduation, will choose to serve, whether professionally or as volunteers, in socially and economically challenged areas to bring leadership to underserved or underdeveloped communities,” adds Peter Raquet.
CSU offers over 3,000 internship opportunities annually, more than any other public university in Ohio. The High Impact Learning Fund will provide funding to create paid internships to assist more CLASS students in being able to participate in these initiatives. The Fund will also be used to develop a new internship partnership between CSU’s Department of History and the Western Reserve Historical Society.
The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences also currently offers faculty-led study abroad initiatives in numerous countries, including Ireland, Thailand, South Africa and Morocco, allowing students to take courses with foreign universities while also conducting research and outreach activities with faculty. In addition, CSU partners with numerous affiliate programs around the world to place students in additional study abroad initiatives at numerous universities and non-profit institutions on six continents. The High Impact Learning Fund will provide scholarships and grants to assist CLASS students in deferring the costs of these experiences and helping more individuals take advantage of these opportunities.
“By taking advantage of these opportunities for local, national and global learning, students will be able to become effective and important leaders in their communities, nations, and society as a whole,” Bonnie Raquet says.
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The heart of the solution, Bier maintains, is tax-growth sharing. Since the region, not individual communities, creates economic expansion, tax-base growth, wherever located in the region, should serve to support renewal and redevelopment wherever needed. In time, all places age and need new life. Growth sharing would ensure that all have a reasonable chance for continuing economic viability and independence.
The book also raises a state constitutional issue. The Ohio Constitution declares that government is instituted for the equal protection of all, but that is far from what the state is doing for many property owners.
“By facilitating the development of new suburbs on rural land while doing little to support renewal and redevelopment of old places, the state is, in effect, taking property value from owners in old places and giving it to owners in new ones,” Bier adds. “The state is playing favorites.”
Bier argues that local and state officials need to work collaboratively to reimagine priorities and create a new legal framework that balances the renewal and redevelopment of aged communities with the construction of new ones.
“If Northeast Ohio is to realize its potential to flourish in its third century, practices and guiding policies must change,” Bier says. “And to some degree that surely applies to the other regions in the state.”
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As a result of these efforts, the project diverted over 99 percent of demolition materials from landfills through recycling and reuse. It also reduced potable water use by almost 25 percent over a baseline for similar buildings.
Additional LEED certified buildings at CSU include Julka Hall (LEED Gold), Euclid Commons (LEED Silver), the CSU Student Center (LEED Silver) and the CSU Recreation Center (LEED Certified). For more information about the University’s sustainability efforts, visit www.BeGreenCLEstate.com.
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In addition, CSU offers a laboratory summer research experience for biology and chemistry majors at LRI and numerous CSU faculty conduct research with Cleveland Clinic scientists. This includes a longstanding relationship between CSU’s internationally recognized Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease and Lerner Research Institute.
“CSU’s growing reputation as a center for medical and scientific research and education is due in large part to our strong partnership with Cleveland Clinic, which has provided tremendous value to our students and faculty as well as the medical community at large,” adds Jerzy Sawicki, Vice President for Research at CSU.
Graduates of CSU/Cleveland Clinic doctoral programs now serve in key scientific and administrative positions at some of the world’s most prestigious health care centers. Prominent alumni include: Andrius Kazlauskas, former professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School; Joe El-Khoury, co-director of the Clinical Chemistry Laboratory at Yale Medical School and Linnea Baudhuin, associate professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at the Mayo Clinic.
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The Center will launch its first course, Space Law: A Global View, this summer. The three-hour online course will be open to C|M|LAW students as well as law students, practitioners and space industry executives around the world. The course will be taught by Professor Sundahl and will feature guest lectures and interviews with thought leaders from government and the space industry. Details on enrollment in the course will be available this spring.
GSLC is also creating an online space law research guide, establishing a research council with the goal of positively influencing the development of space law and establishing a weekly blog that will become a must-read for current issues in the field.
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"The opening of this new K-8 building on the Cleveland State University campus represents another milestone in our growing partnership with the University," adds Gordon. "Campus International K-8 and Campus International High School provide the community with access to an International Baccalaureate education and practices that can be applied across the district."
Click here to view photos of the Campus International School dedication ceremony.