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Monday, August 29, 2016

Grant to encourage youth’s engagement in research | Mayo opens Spotlight on the Arts series

President Mary Ellen Mazey welcomes attendees at her 2016 State of the University Address Aug. 26. The theme was “Collaboration and Transformation.” The president cited BGSU’s many recent accomplishments and called upon the University community to use this year’s Common Experience theme of “In the Spirit of Innovation” and utilize the Common Read, “A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas,” to generate new ideas to make BGSU even greater.

EXTENDING OPPORTUNITY
GRANT TO BOOST YOUTH’S ENGAGEMENT IN RESEARCH

The Northwest Ohio Center for Excellence in STEM Education (NWO) at BGSU is one of three organizations nationwide to receive funding from the Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP), in collaboration with Battelle.

The $50,000 grant will help NWO increase the number of underrepresented students participating in the Ohio Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (OJSHS) in March 2017 and beyond. The program will recruit and train 30 to 60 underrepresented students and their teachers from Toledo Public, Lima City and Fostoria school districts with the purposes of engaging the students in scientific research and STEM studies.

“This grant represents an important goal we’ve had for quite a while for the Ohio Junior Science and Humanities Symposium: to dramatically increase participation in this very high profile, statewide science research competition by students from underrepresented groups or economically disadvantaged areas,” said Dr. Bob Midden, NWO director.

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‘ALL MY LONELY ONES’ OPENS SPOTLIGHT ON THE ARTS

Dr. Wendell Mayo

Dr. Wendell Mayo, prize-winning author and Fulbright Scholar, has lived two lives, the first as a chemical engineer, the second as a writer and BGSU faculty member.

Mayo, a professor of English and creative writing, is the featured speaker for the University’s Spotlight on the Arts event Sept. 1. His presentation, titled “All My Lonely Ones: The Short Fiction of Wendell Mayo,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Thomas B. and Kathleen M. Donnell Theatre at The Wolfe Center for the Arts. The event is also part of the Creative Writing Program’s fall reading series.

IN BRIEF

Caryl Crane Youth Theatre at BGSU Firelands takes the stage with “James and the Giant Peach,” the new musical based on Roald Dahl’s classic novel.

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