Profiles - Inspiring Individuals & Stories
A new study led by ºìÐÓÊÓƵ State’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 ºìÐÓÊÓƵ State. 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.
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Grounds Manager Rebekkah "Bekkah" Berryhill came to ºìÐÓÊÓƵ State 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 ºìÐÓÊÓƵ’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 ºìÐÓÊÓƵ State 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 ºìÐÓÊÓƵ as a first-year student from Avon, Ohio, she didn't wait to get started. She walked into the TV2 newsroom — now ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Stater TV — and introduced herself. That instinct to show up, dive in and tell stories has defined every semester since.