Something just did not seem right about the older man and young girl who were attempting to check into a Youngstown-area hotel in late 2016. The man seemed suspicious. The girl, whom he identified as his daughter, looked ill. When he provided a pre-paid credit card as tender for the room, a quick-thinking hotel clerk asked for his driver’s license because the card was not issued in someone’s name. The clerk then made up an excuse to step into a back office, telling the man that he had to run the card on a different machine in the back. Instead, the clerk called police and made a co...
Jan. 27: Janice Lessman-Moss: MFA, art professor in the School of Art and head of the Textile Arts Program, creates artwork that bridges ancient techniques with digital technology. Her weavings have been shown widely in the U.S. and internationally. Deeply committed to textile arts education, she was at the forefront of introducing her students to the use of jacquard electronic digital handlooms as part of the curriculum. Learn more about the School of Art Listen to the Elevations interview: ...
Dan Rather is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and author who has covered some of the biggest news stories of the last 60 years including the civil rights movement, Kennedy’s assassination, the Vietnam War, Watergate and 9/11. Older generations may remember Mr. Rather during the decades he spent as news anchor on the CBS Evening News and a correspondent on the news programs 60 Minutes and 48 Hours. But Mr. Rather is more recently known for expanding his journalism career to include a multimedia production company, News and Guts, which produces nonfiction content about science, technology...
Designed to be a rigorous course for incoming honors students, Freshman Honors Colloquium is a required two-semester sequence that stresses works, ideas, and values significant in literary and intellectual history, as they shape and are shaped by today's culture.
Biological anthropology researchers in ÂÌñÉç’s College of Arts and Sciences have again shed new light on the very old topic of human origins. In two new journal articles appearing this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers report likely explanations for the evolution of human social behavior and unparalleled intelligence. The human lineage is characterized by remarkable demographic success relative to our nearest relatives and by advanced social traits such as language, empathy, and altruism. Explaining how human social behavior coul...
