After receiving a $100,000 grant, The University of Akron School of Law is partnering with the Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority (AMHA) to help youths with criminal records find jobs and affordable...
A brand new 5k race, organized by DreamAKRON, is raising money in order to establish scholarships for high school students on May 7.
The race is a community event that involves people from the Akron...
Over the weekend, The National Inventor’s Hall of Fame STEM Middle School hosted its sixth BEST (Bridging Engineering, Science, and Technology) Medicine Engineering Fair.
This event, orchestrated...
Kristina Aiad-Toss and Logan Lane contributed reporting
While you were away on spring break, an update came about when and how students will be getting their fee refunds, UA’s faculty union and...
Professor Marge Koosed of the UA School of Law hosted a panel to discuss race and the death penalty this past Tuesday. The event, titled “The Death Lottery: How Race Impacts the Ohio Death Penalty,”...
Rather than sitting in one of the buildings on campus and listening to a professor lecture, a group of students participated in a different type of instruction in mid-April.
Their instructors were editors...
Gary Spring will receive the inaugural 2015 Legal Services Champion Award from the Cleveland District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Spring is the director of The University of Akron...
Entrepreneurs, business owners gather to learn about online startups
April 13, 2015
Online companies might be the way of the future, and UA is at the helm of the movement.
NEXTOhio, a conference about online startups, took place at Quaker Station on Thursday, April 9. It was...
Students are still able to receive online tutoring for free through the Ohio eTutoring Collaborative until the last day of classes on May 1.
Started in 2010, the Ohio eTutoring Collaborative worked...
Students looking to study abroad may be daunted by its unfamiliarity, which is why on Tuesday, Oct. 14 The University of Akron’s Office of International Programs held their annual education...
ServeAkron has kicked off the school year with their third annual school supply drive to help the local schools in Akron.
Assistant Director of Student Life Alison Doehring said, “As with every...
Matthew Balsinger
Financial woes at The University of Akron have many students and faculty members concerned, as the university looks to
face a projected $26.7 million deficit for the 2014 fiscal year.
“I...
Beau Brown
Senior graphic design majors are saying sayonara and waving their hands goodbye to the university, while waving their professional portfolios in the faces of potential employers. The Pinpoint...
Abigail Chaff
Where has the creativity gone in our generation? In school it always seems that someone is telling you what to do. Even in college there are rules and restrictions. Before entering college,...
Aine McCarthy
Back in the 80s, there was this innuendo-ridden movie with Rodney Dangerfield and Robert Downey Jr. called "Back to School."
It centered around an older, uneducated man who decided to grab...
