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University Culinary Services' Fork in the Road food truck is returning to Risman Plaza for lunch on Wednesdays, from June 12-Aug. 7. 

After a national search, the �鶹ӰԺ Museum is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Sarah Spinner Liska as its new director, effective July 1, 2024.

Juneteenth Jubilee will be held Tuesday June 18 from 11 a.m.– 1:30 p.m. on the �鶹ӰԺ Campus, Student Green/Risman Plaza. It is free and open to the public.

�鶹ӰԺ earned first-place honors in the annual Campus Race to Zero Waste, a nationwide college campus recycling competition.

Melissa Fenn, senior advisor II in the College of Nursing, was recently awarded the university's inaugural Distinguished Advisor Award by University Advising and the �鶹ӰԺ Academic Advising Support and Advising Association (KASADA). 

In 1977, the U.S. government established a time to recognize Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and their accomplishments. The commemoration started as a week but in the 1990s evolved into a monthlong celebration.

The �鶹ӰԺ Board of Trustees approved the updated �鶹ӰԺ State Complete College Ohio Campus Completion Plan as part of a state and institutional commitment to increase dramatically the number of college degrees awarded in Ohio. The plan was approved during the Board’s regular quarterly meeting held May 22.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act affects millions at airports large and small including in the Akron-Canton Airport, the Akron Fulton Airport and the �鶹ӰԺ Airport.

�鶹ӰԺ State conferred a Doctor of Letters honorary degree to alumnus Willard Jenkins for his “extraordinary contributions in promulgating jazz music and its importance to American culture and in advancing �鶹ӰԺ.”

Exuberant celebrations and tears of joy punctuated one of the biggest weekends of the year at �鶹ӰԺ State as the university welcomed its spring Class of 2024 graduates.