With inflation driving up the price of a night out and packed schedules for school and work, students may struggle to find an affordable option for fun with friends.  What they may not know is that they can put the stress of school on hold and decompress with a couple rounds of free, live trivia at Akronym Brewing.   Students don’t have to wait until the weekend to enjoy a night out, either....

During a 2018 scholarship competition, University of Akron horn player Jordin Andrews noticed his body trembling.   What would follow was nearly a year of frustration and questions after medicine prescribed by his doctor failed to stop his tremors.   On January 18, 2019, Andrews received a diagnosis. He had a tumor approximately the size of a ripe peach on his Thalamus, the area of the brain...

I’m in my third year at The University of Akron, but it doesn’t really feel like it. I can name (maybe) three buildings on campus, and I can never remember how to get to the campus library. This isn’t quite how I imagined my college experience.  At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I transferred to The University of Akron. In March 2020, I packed up my bags at a small private college...

A seasonal favorite event in the Akron community, the [email protected] Holiday Shop is returning from a pandemic pause just in time for holiday gifting season.   The University of Akron Mary Schiller Myers School of Art presents the [email protected] Holiday Shop 2022 on Wednesday, Dec. 7 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Thursday, Dec. 8 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.   [email protected] Holiday Shop will be held in the Folk...

The Akron Zoo is kicking off their Wild Lights celebration this week, Nov. 25-27. The event will run Dec. 2-4, Dec. 9-11, Dec. 16-23, and Dec. 26-30. All dates will take place from 5 - 9 p.m.  Over one million Wild Lights will be visible at the celebration, featuring the Holly Jolly Hillside with lighted trees synchronized to music, and the Rockin’ Lighted Spectacular- an animated wall of lights...

Dominic DiMascio, a junior at The University of Akron, was looking for more opportunities to engage the professional sport community and network with the pros.   “I wanted to create a space for growing sports professionals, like myself, to learn about the industry,” he said.  Sport Analytics and Business Association (SABA) is a student organization that was developed in the 2022–2023...