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Timothy Mikes is a graduate student in ����ֱ�� State University’s College of Public Health with a specialty in epidemiology. He’s also on the autism spectrum and using his perspective to enhance the university experience for other students with autism spectrum disorder.

����ֱ�� State University was to move all classes online, causing surrounding businesses to do the same, like WKSU. “WKSU began planning for potential disruptions at the beginning of March,” News Director Andrew Meyer said. “Within two weeks, it became clear that WKSU would need to take action on those plans.”

Before May 4, 1970, students at ����ֱ�� State were just regular students enjoying time together, performing, volunteering, and advocating for issues they believed in. Thanks to digital archives of the Daily ����ֱ�� Stater and the department of Special Collections and Archives, here is a look into the life of ����ֱ�� State students in the late 1960s and the days before the tragic events that would change the campus forever.

Meditative practices are bringing the ����ֱ�� State community together, even from the comfort of their own home. ����ֱ�� State of Wellness has moved its Meditation Across Campus sessions online, in an effort to continue the sessions despite the COVID-19 global pandemic.

David Hassler is the director of the Wick Poetry Center, where he oversees the local and national Wick projects, works with students and collaborates with other programs across campus. We asked him 10 questions about ����ֱ��, ����ֱ�� State, poetry and, of course, how he's keeping himself — and the ����ֱ�� State Community — busy during the pandemic.

The words “biology” and “design” might not typically intertwine; however, ����ֱ�� State University’s Biodesign Challenge course was created to challenge the idea that the two separate disciplines could not collaborate.

����ֱ�� State hosts STARTALK Foreign Language Academy, where 20 accepted high school students in Northeast Ohio are immersed into either Russian or Chinese language and culture. The Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies received federal funding for the 12th year to host this academy on campus.

Kindness means something different to everyone, but to Stephanie Sweany, ’05, it means making a stranger’s day a little better by simply smiling at them. Stephanie started the Canton Kindness Coalition to “make kindness contagious” in November 2018.

Claudia Kovach, ’03, M.A. ’09, has been part of her family business, City Machine Technologies, Inc since 2006. Her time and dedication to the company has proven successful, as Claudia was recently named the National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Champion of Ohio.

The ����ֱ�� State University alumni family grew by nearly 3,000 new graduates as the university held its Fall Commencement ceremonies. For the ����ֱ�� Campus, Commencement ceremonies took place Friday, Dec. 13, and Saturday, Dec. 14, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation (MAC) Center.