Heart of gold. Life was just beginning for Lainey Ward when doctors worked on her heart to keep it beating. A 4-month-old baby, Ms. Ward was in the fight of her life before she knew what living really meant. Her whole world was mom and dad and the mobile dancing over her crib. Open-heart surgery and operations to fix three birth defects kept Ms. Ward pushing forward, overcoming diagnosis after diagnosis. First, the girl who would not live, did. Then, the girl who could not walk, walked. Later, the girl who found it difficult to learn would teach. Today, Ms. Ward finds hers...
As a passionate student of the arts, Bethany Westphal felt the need to share her love with others, specifically younger children, and help them avoid some of the negative experiences she had with music teachers growing up. She recently opened Rising Star Center for the Arts in downtown Akron, where she hopes to 鈥渃reate a positive, fun, and encouraging learning environment for the arts so that everyone can be free to pursue their creative dreams.鈥 Bethany (senior, Integrative Studies) shared what inspired her to start Rising Star: 鈥淲hat ignited a spark in me to start a new business w...
Andr茅 Leon Talley has been a fixture in the world of fashion for so long that it鈥檚 difficult to imagine a time when he wasn鈥檛 defining the boundaries of great style. Kate Novack鈥檚 intimate portrait, "The Gospel According to Andr茅" takes viewers on an emotional journey from Andr茅鈥檚 roots growing up in the segregated Jim Crow South to become one of the most influential tastemakers and fashion curators of our times.
NOVEMBER 18, 2018 | APPEARED IN VOLUME 96, ISSUE 46 of Chemical and Engineering News Photonic thin films鈥攊n which ordered nanostructures interact with light to produce color鈥攃an be used to make lightweight and flexible color filters, sensors, display components, and more. But ensuring that the nanocrystals within them align uniformly to produce well-defined color can be difficult and time consuming. Casting such a film in a dish, for example, can take weeks and still result in poorly controlled nanostructures and colors. Now, Georgia Institute of Technology鈥檚 Vladimir V. Tsukruk and colleague...
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on LinkedIn Share by Email The Environmental Science and Design Research Initiative (ESDRI) was excited to be able to offer competitively awarded seed grant funding to research teams in Spring Semester 2018. ESDRI was established in 2017 to support faculty efforts to achieve continued scholarly success in areas of research concerning both natural and built systems. The projects funded demonstrate the broad nature of scholarly activity addressing the environment at 蜜桃视频, including projects re...
蜜桃视频 at Tuscarawas and the Performing Arts Center were both big winners during The Times-Reporter鈥檚 annual Best of the Best Awards Gala by earning seven awards. A large crowd was on hand for the event, held at the Performing Arts Center on Tues., Nov. 13. 蜜桃视频 State Tuscarawas received the highest award in the Kids and Education category and first place in College and University. The Performing Arts Center received the highest award for Entertainment, first place awards for Event Venue and Concert Venue, second place in Wedding Venue and honorable mention in Family Entertai...
