For the seventh consecutive year, Ohio Dominican University’s fall 2020 graduating class of 47 ODU Physician Assistant Studies students has achieved a 98% first-time pass rate on the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam (PANCE). This exceeds the national average first-time pass rate of 95% for...
A knowledgeable understanding of the Earth is an essential component of global citizenship. Denison University’s new major, Earth and Environmental Sciences (EESC), explores the Earth through the natural sciences, including earth science, physics, chemistry, and biology, as well as computer science and data analytics. EESC majors...
Working with the Alliance City Health Department, the University of Mount Union’s Physician Assistant (PA) Studies Program has assisted in administering COVID-19 vaccines to members of the Alliance community at the Alliance Senior Center. During the two of three sessions that have already taken place,...
A 55,000 square foot, cutting-edge STEM center for computer science, mathematics, physics and engineering is now elevating advanced learning, research and collaboration at Baldwin Wallace University. Classes began gathering in The Austin E. Knowlton Center on Tuesday, January 19, the first day of the spring 2021 semester. A virtual ribbon-cutting ceremony and online...
The Cedarville University chapter of Christian Pharmacists Fellowship International (CPFI) has been awarded a $500 grant to provide free influenza vaccines. The $500 Hands and Feet Grant will provide 50 doses of influenza vaccine to the Health Partners Free Clinic in Troy, Ohio. Cedarville students will...
You’re invited to join Ohio Wesleyan University’s Perkins Observatory in December for a free online discussion of “Stellar Heartbeats” and, depending upon the weather, either free virtual skywatches or planetarium talks. At 8 p.m. Dec. 10, Robert Harmon, Ph.D., an Ohio Wesleyan professor of physics and...
One Geographic Information System (GIS) class at Cedarville University is using high-tech mapping skills to help bring clean water to Africa. Mark Gathany, professor of biology at Cedarville, wanted to help his GIS students transfer the concepts they were learning in class to a real-life current...
In order to continue to enhance the student experience, the University of Mount Union’s Department of Nursing recently added a SimBaby simulator to its cutting-edge facilities. The SimBaby simulator represents a 9-month-old pediatric patient, and simulations help students meet course learning objectives focusing on initial assessment...
When the coronavirus pandemic forced Wittenberg University to abruptly switch to online classes last spring, Professor and Chair of Chemistry Justin Houseknecht seized the opportunity to investigate how the transition to remote instruction would impact learning in an organic chemistry class. With the help of...
Mercy College of Ohio's Master of Physician Assistant Studies program has received approval from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) to launch its first class in May of 2021. Physician Assistant (PA) program admission is highly competitive and Mercy's program will accept 20...