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| Jan. 14, 2009 |
| UT Professor Gary Moore discusses the possible future of Chrysler with WTOL-11
WTOL-11 |
Click to watch Video| Jan. 12, 2009 |
| Lucas County Poet Laureate guides
others who seek his path of verse The Toledo Blade Far fewer in the Western tradition confront the mix of surprise and distress that struck Joel Lipman's parents more than 40 years ago when they learned that once he finished law school, he didn't plan to practice law. He was thinking of maybe becoming a poet. "There were anguished conversations between my mom, my father, and myself," Mr. Lipman recalled recently. But he stayed true to his words. The University of Toledo English and art professor has compiled a body of published works spanning four decades |
| Jan. 10, 2009 |
| You've Been Talking (or Pressing 'Send') in Your
Sleep The New York Times "E-mailing while sleeping, however, upturns the previous understanding of the mind as essentially quiescent, absolved of a participating role. The Sleep Medicine article — prepared by Dr. Fouzia Siddiqui, a neurologist at the University of Toledo Medical Center in Ohio, and two colleagues — describes one woman’s e-mailing while sleeping as the first reported case of “complex nonviolent cognitive behavior.” It involved not just composing messages, but also navigating past two separate levels of password security to reach the e-mail software." |
| University of Toledo
extends “guarantee” scholarship to Washington Local students NBC24
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| Jan. 4, 2009 |
| University of Toledo officials
looking to enhance college-town feel near campus The Toledo Blade "A college-town atmosphere is in the works for the area around the University of Toledo. More than $3 million has been invested in property along Dorr Street - most recently the $1 million purchase of a gas station - to revitalize the southwest corner of campus into a place where people want to be." |
| UT Wants College Town 13ABC
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| Dec. 17, 2008 |
| Toledo's Makeover: From Glass City to Solar Valley ABC World News with Charles Gibson In Ohio's "solar valley," 10,000 new jobs have taken root. Companies, like Xunlight, founded by researchers at the University of Toledo, are growing fast, working with experts to manufacture solar products and hiring new employees to become "green collar" workers. "Last year, we grew 300 percent -- from 20 employees to 80 employees today," said Xunming Deng, a physics professor-turned CEO of Xunlight Corp." |
 Zzz-mail: What happens when sleepwalkers go online The Telegraph -- London It was only when a would-be guest phoned the next day to accept, that she found out what she had done. The 44-year-old woman, whose case is reported by researchers from the University of Toledo in the latest edition of medical journal Sleep Medicine, had gone to bed at around 10pm, but got up two hours later and walked to the next room. She then turned on the computer, connected to the internet, and logged on by typing her username and password to her email account. She then composed and sent three emails. |
| Dec. 16, 2008 |
| Perrysburg solar-panel maker gets state
aid The Toledo Blade A needed state loan to help pay for the equipment at a start-up solar manufacturer in suburban Toledo has been approved. Willard & Kelsey Solar Group LLC was approved Monday for a $5 million loan and a $500,000 grant from the Ohio Controlling Board for its $13.5 million project in the former Delafoil Inc. plant at 1775 Progress Dr. in Perrysburg, |
| Woman in
deep sleep emails friends in first zzz-mailing case The Daily Telegraph -- Australia A woman in deep sleep sent emails to friends asking them over for wine and caviar in what doctors believe is the first reported case of 'zzz-mailing' -- using the internet while asleep. The case of the 44-year-old woman is reported by researchers from the University of Toledo, Ohio, in the US, in the latest edition of the medical journal Sleep Medicine. |
| Dec. 15, 2008 |
| Toledo turns to solar panels to revive
city Vindy.com Toledo's place in the solar industry is built around research that began 25 years ago with Harold McMaster, a pioneer in glass making who later became consumed by creating a cost-efficient solar panel. Two companies he founded eventually led to First Solar and Calyxo USA. McMaster died in 2003, but his work continues at the University of Toledo, which is quietly attracting some of the country's leading solar researchers with the help of money from his foundation, which contributed $2 million this year to create a new research position. |
| Dec. 14, 2008 |
| University of
Toledo's scholarship deal is just what Cleveland kids need -- editorial The Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland high school seniors with good grades and low family incomes can get a sweet deal from the University of Toledo: If they can pay for their room and board, the school will cover their $8,000 tuition. Students prepared for the rigors of college should grab this opportunity and run with it, particularly if they are interested in medicine, nursing or pharmacy, all available at UT's Health Science Campus. |
| Dec. 9, 2008 |
| Data start-up roots itself at
University of Toledo incubator The Toledo Blade Imagine gathering up your computer's virtual desktop and all your electronic documents and using them on any PC you encounter - the one in the college science lab, a friend's laptop, the machine at the Internet cafe, that old Dell in your parents' house. Two entrepreneurs from New York City are developing a way to do just that, and they've set up their fledging company at a University of Toledo business incubator. |
| Dec. 8, 2008 |
| University of Toledo, Rotary unite to
give village cleaner water The Toledo Blade Andrew Jones hadn't seen anything like it. He'd been on mission trips to places such as Jamaica and Mexico before, but those countries have some luxury tourist areas. Honduras isn't like them. "When I landed in the capital of Honduras, my jaw just dropped because it was impoverished and worse than anything I've seen," he said. "It was definitely an eye-opener. I'm a lot more thankful for having running water now." |
| Engineering students receive grant to aid Honduras village WTOL-11 |
| Dec. 6, 2008 |
| University of
Toledo recruits students at Cleveland's John Hay High School The Cleveland Plain Dealer Many Cleveland kids never go to a college or university, so on Friday one came to get them. A University of Toledo entourage set up shop at the John Hay High School campus, taking applications and granting acceptance on the spot to hundreds of seniors bused from the city's public high schools. It's part of the new "UT Guarantee," which automatically awards four-year scholarships to students from Cleveland and five other urban Ohio districts if they have "B" averages and demonstrate financial hardship. |
| Dec. 5, 2008 |
| UT traveling to Cleveland to pitch free
trip to college The Toledo Blade The University of Toledo is packing up a bus and heading out early today to help get more Cleveland students enrolled at the school. UT admissions staff, financial aid officials, and college recruiters will make the two-hour trip to John Hay High School in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District to tell students about an opportunity to attend college for free. |
| Nov. 18, 2008 |
| UT putting $10 million in economic
development The Toledo Blade
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| Nov. 7, 2008 |
| Tough Times Strain
Colleges Rich and Poor The New York Times
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This fall, more universities are taking steps to increase affordability.
Benedictine University, a Roman Catholic institution in Illinois, is freezing tuition; Vanderbilt University will replace
loans with grants; Boston University has expanded scholarships for students who graduated from Boston public schools; and
the
University of Toledo announced free tuition for needy, high-performing graduates of Ohio’s six largest public school
systems. Presidents of many expensive private colleges are wondering how much more tuition pressure families can bear.
| Oct. 24, 2008 |
| UT's trustees back 2-year extension for
its president The Toledo Blade
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| Oct. 23, 2008 |
| UT extends Jacobs' contract The Toledo Free Press The University of Toledo Board of Trustees extended the contract of President Lloyd Jacobs by two years on Oct. 23. Trustees voted unanimously to retain Jacobs as president through Nov. 16 , 2013, according to a news release. Jacobs has been UT’s president since the July 2006 merger of the Medical University of Ohio (MUO) and The University of Toledo. Prior to that, he had served as MUO president since November 2003. |
| University
of Toledo to Commemorate 200th Anniversary of Federal Slave Import Prohibition AScribe The same country that may for the first time elect a black man as its president in 2008 took a first tentative step toward equality with a quiet clause written into the U.S. Constitution that enabled lawmakers to pass a statute to prohibit the importation of new slaves beginning in 1808. Two hundred years later The University of Toledo College of Law is commemorating the enactment in 1808 of the 1807 Act to prohibit the importation of slaves, a small step for African Americans toward equality, during a conference titled "Commemorating 1808: Fighting for the Right to Dream" Friday, Oct. 24, at 6 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 25, at 9 a.m. in the Law Center Auditorium on Main Campus. |
| Public college, university enrollment up in
Ohio The Toledo Blade The University of Toledo increased 5.7 percent to 22,336 students this year, and Owens Community College rose 4.3 percent to 21,296. Bowling Green State University’s enrollment dropped 2.2 percent to 20,228 students. Some of the enrollment gains are attributed to Ohio’s two-year tuition freeze, partnerships between colleges and universities, increased distance learning courses, more adults taking courses part time or returning to college, and increasing student support services. |
| Oct. 22, 2008 |
| Political columnist to speak at
UT Law Center The Toledo Free Press The Stranahan National Issues Forum will feature Michael Barone, U.S. News & World Report columnist, who will discuss "American Politics 2008 - And Beyond" at The University of Toledo Law Center Auditorium on Main Campus Oct. 27 at noon. Raised in Detroit and Birmingham, Mich., Barone has written for many publications, including The Economist, The New York Times, The Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press. He also is a contributor to the Fox News Channel. |
| Oct. 21, 2008 |
| UT
guarantees full ride to hard workers The BG News The public school students of Ohio's six largest cities are targeted by a new enrollment program known as the "UT Guarantee." Students who meet the eligibility requirements are guaranteed 100 percent full tuition and student general fees at the University of Toledo. |
| Medical dean to discuss politics-health
care link The Toledo Blade Until health-care reform is taken out of the political process, it's almost sure to fail, the dean of the University of Toledo's college of medicine says. Dr. Jeffrey Gold will discuss the issue that has become a hot topic in the presidential race during a town hall meeting at 6 p.m. today in the Lucas Room of the Dana Conference Center on UT's health science campus. Dr. Gold, who also is the university's executive vice president and provost for health affairs, will avoid "doctor-ese" and speak in jargon-free terms about changes needed to fix the country's health-care system. |
| University of Toledo to upgrade Internet
access, build new ICU The Toledo Blade The University of Toledo is planning a new intensive care unit for its hospital and adding wireless Internet access to most of the main campus as part of a multimillion-dollar capital improvement plan. The ICU and technology upgrades are being added to already announced plans for a new pharmacy building and indoor athletic facility, which altogether will cost about $51 million. |
| Finances 101: Learning money skills at UT 13ABC Area high school students find out how to balance a checkbook and cope with surprises. They may not be grown up, but today hundreds of area high school students are learning how to live like a grown-up. It's called Finances 101 and it's going on all afternoon at the University of Toledo. The class is put on by the Northwest Ohio chapter of Credit Unions. The goal is to teach students how to live life in the real world. Nearly 700 students from 14 area high schools are participating in the class. |
| Taking a walk through the 'game of life' at UT NBC24 More than 700 local high shool students began their walk through the 'game of life' Tuesday morning. Students from 14 area high school participated in "Finances 101: Walk the Walk, Talk the Talk" at the University of Toledo. |
| Oct. 19, 2008 |
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cities' students can get free ride The Columbus Dispatch Columbus high-school students shopping for a college bargain will have a new option. Starting next fall, the University of Toledo will offer scholarships that cover tuition and fees to public-school graduates from Columbus and the state's five other big cities. "It's a tremendous opportunity for our kids, especially in today's economy," said Kate Webster, a counselor at Columbus Alternative High School. |
| Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who
will speak at UT, is dedicated to ethical issues The Toledo Blade
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| Oct. 18, 2008 |
| Sour economy no match for University of
Toledo sales school The Toledo Blade Think of it as "economic speed dating" - a six-minute exercise in frenetic human relations between dozens of willing employers and scores of ambitious University of Toledo students - with no emotional commitments and virtually guaranteed matches. For two hours yesterday afternoon, the auditorium of the UT's student union was transformed into a virtual hiring hall, matching representatives of some of the nation's most successful companies with young, enthusiastic, and desirable potential employees. |
| Saturday Essay: University of
Toledo is an intricate part of Toledo The Toledo Blade I was sitting in Driscoll Alumni Center with a special group of people. They were elected officials, community and business leaders, prominent University of Toledo alumni. It was 2002 and we were discussing what leaders anywhere and everywhere regularly discuss: How do we transform an idea into tangible results? The idea - the reason I was hired - was UT's decision to launch a fund-raising capital campaign to help increase university resources. |
| South Pole doctor says cancer spread
The Toledo Blade
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| Oct. 17, 2008 |
| South Pole survival story NBC24 She’s a best selling author, cancer survivor and Medical College of Ohio graduate. Dr. Jerri Nielsen spoke with University of Toledo students about her harrowing tail of survival at the South Pole. Her harrowing tale of survival reads like an adventure novel. But Dr. Jerri Nielsen’s journey is far from fictional. “When I realized I had cancer, which was the moment I felt a lump in my breast, I knew that I was in trouble. I thought you gambled and you're going to loose,” Nielsen. |
| Maumee group celebrates linking strangers to
give, receive kidneys The Toledo Blade
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| Oct. 16, 2008 |
| A Toledo promise The Toledo Free Press In the middle of all the negative economic news, two local institutions of higher learning have offered students a leg up and have paved the way for a community-wide turnaround. In a nutshell, here are the offers: The University of Toledo will give a full scholarship to any needy Toledo public school student with good grades. UT is offering the same deal to students from five other Ohio cities. And Owens Community College is offering a similar scholarship to TPS grads. This is exactly the kind of investment that will attract good high school graduates to Toledo and encourage young public school students to study harder. No longer can students and their families complain that higher education is out of their reach. |
| Oct. 15, 2008 |
| Middle East scholar to give lecture
at UT The Toledo Blade James Zogby, the founder and president of the Arab American Institute, will be the keynote speaker Sunday for the eighth annual Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture at the University of Toledo. A lecturer and scholar on Middle East issues and U.S. and Arab relations, Mr. Zogby is the author of several books and a weekly column, Washington Watch, which appears in 14 newspapers in the Arab world. |
| Oct. 14, 2008 |
| Students recruited in Akron Ohio.com The University of Toledo on Monday unveiled a scholarship program that vigorously recruits in the University of Akron's backyard. UT's Blue and Gold Scholar Award will pay tuition and general fees for low-income students with 3.0 averages from Akron and five other public school districts statewide. UT Vice President Larry Burns said he believes it is the first program of its kind in the state. He said the university expects the program to persuade about 100 |
| BG,
UT team up to research next-gen energy tech The BG News The University is researching to find next-generation energy resources after receiving one of ten grants from the Ohio Research Scholars Program this past summer. BGSU is collaborating with the University of Toledo to use their share of the $8.9 million grant, over the next five years, towards bringing in research professors and creating next-generation energy devices. Of the $8.9 million secured for the two universities, $7.2 million will go towards the devices and materials. Photovoltaics, based on dye-sensitized solar cells, organic bulk heterojunctions and organic light emitting devices (OLED), are being made and researched at the University, said chemistry professor Felix Castellano. |
| Oct. 13, 2008 |
| UT offers free tuition to 6 cities' graduates
The Toledo Blade Public school graduates from the state's largest cities have a shot at a free education at the University of Toledo. As long as they show some financial need and keep their grades at a B average or higher, UT will make sure that 100 percent of the students' tuition and fees is covered. "We're a public university and we feel it makes tremendous sense to work with the public school system," said Kevin Kucera, UT's associate vice president for enrollment services. "We feel this is a great opportunity to be a leader." Called the University of Toledo Guarantee, the program is open to graduates of Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, and Toledo public schools. |
| UT offers free tuition to Ohio graduates The BG News The University of Toledo now guarantees free tuition to eligible public school students in Ohio. The university is offering the innovative new scholarship, the Blie and Gold Scholar Award, to high school students in six Ohio urban communities, including Toledo. The program covers 100% tuition and general fees for academically qualified students who have financial need. The 'UT Guarantee' is open to public school students in Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Toledo. |
| Oct. 8, 2008 |
| Senate hearing held at Univ. of Toledo 13ABC The economy and the Midwest jobs picture were the subject of a Senate hearing held today on the campus of the University of Toledo. It's the first time there has ever been a Senate hearing on the campus. Senator Sherrod Brown led the meeting. We have reported the numbers: 159,000 jobs were eliminated from the payrolls across the country last month. And since 2001, here in Ohio, more than 200,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost. |
| Sen. Brown holds hearing at UT on Midwest jobs NBC24 Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown held a hearing Wednesday to discuss strategies to rebuild communities in the Midwest. Testimony from area workers, local leaders and experts in Ohio's economy were used to examine current economic policies, job losses and the potential for job creation in Ohio. Since 2001, Ohio has lost more than 200,000 manufacturing jobs. Ohio's unemployment rate of 7.4% is also well above the national unemployment rate of 6.1%. |
| Oct. 7, 2008 |
| Flu shot clinics opened to public NBC24 The University of Toledo and the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department will offer public flu shot clinics to help lessen the health effects of the influenza virus. UT will offer clinics scheduled for Oct. 8, Oct. 22 and Nov. 19 from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. in the lobby of the Richard D. Ruppert Health Center on the University of Toledo Health Science Campus, 3000 Arlington Ave., Toledo. Persons under the age of 36 months may receive vaccinations at the Shots for Tots clinic sites. |
| UT offers public flu shot clinics The Toledo Free Press The University of Toledo will offer three public flu clinics to help lessen the health effects of this common virus. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 36,000 people die and 200,000 are hospitalized in the United States each year due to flu-related complications. According to a news release, public clinics at UT are scheduled Oct. 8, Oct. 22 and Nov. 19 (all Wednesdays) from 4 to 8 p.m. in the lobby of the Richard D. Ruppert Health Center on UT’s Health Science Campus, located at 3000 Arlington Ave., Toledo. The clinics are sponsored in conjunction with the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department. |
| Oct. 6, 2008 |
| Plastic bridge in Huron County may be path to
the future The Toledo Blade Bridges don't get much smaller than one carrying Ridge Road over a Huron River tributary in Huron County's Fairfield Township. "It's only 17 feet long. Even at 20 miles an hour, it's like half a second to cross it," said Douglas Nims, an associate professor of civil engineering at the University of Toledo. But Mr. Nims and several of his students were there to observe when the Huron County Engineer's Office installed a replacement last month, and they will be back in the future to take readings from an array of sensors built into the structure. |
| BGSU
nursing students look to UT for classes The BG News BGSU nursing students may be taking all their classes at the rival Rockets' school, but they are still Falcons. In 2006, the former Medical University of Ohio merged with the University of Toledo to create the UT Health Science campus. Students start out at BGSU or UT in a pre-nursing program for two years and then they apply to the UT nursing program and upon acceptance they take all of their classes at the UT Health Science Campus. The program is highly competitive; students must have a 2.5 GPA in order to apply to the program, but the past couple years the GPA's have been so high that the lowest GPA to get in this year was a 3.3, said Jessica Clifford, BGSU academic adviser of pre-nursing. |
| Univeresity of Toledo opens exhibit on
northwest Ohio people with disabilities The Toledo Blade
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| Oct. 5, 2008 |
| Visitors soak up bright ideas from Ohio Solar
Tour exhibits The Toledo Blade
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| Oct. 4, 2008 |
| University of Toledo alumnus had role
in rescue of space station The Toledo Blade
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| UT president will discuss changes and
challenges on 'Deadline Now' The Toledo Blade It's been a busy five years for Dr. Lloyd Jacobs, president of the University of Toledo. The medical doctor gave up his job as chief operating officer at the University of Michigan Health System to take over the top job at the Medical College of Ohio. Just two years later, he helped merge that school with UT. |
| Oct. 3, 2008 |
| UT, Livonia hospital link to train doctors
The Toledo Blade The University of Toledo and St. Joseph Mercy hospitals are joining forces as the medical school works to add clinical education spots for students and the Ann Arbor-based system launches resident education programs at its Livonia, Mich., hospital. Officials from both institutions say that having more medical student and residency positions will help achieve a common goal: Heading off a physician shortage by keeping more newly minted doctors in the region. |
| Oct. 2, 2008 |
| UT group
uses computers, economics to make transplant mor effective The Toledo Free Press When Dr. Michael Rees sits down in a crowded coffee shop, he doesn’t see thirsty suburban professionals, or college students acting pretentious. He sees kidneys. “Look at her,” he said pointing to a young woman in black suit, with neat, black hair. “She could need a kidney, but her family might not have a match.” According to Rees, there are 70,000 people in the U.S. waiting for a kidney transplant. And many of them die before they ever get a chance at a new organ. |
| Former FBI director Freeh to speak at
UT The Toledo Free Press Former FBI Director Louis J. Freeh will speak at The University of Toledo on “Security versus Liberty – Seven Years After 9/11” at 11:45 a.m. Oct. 6 in the Law Center Auditorium. “Judge Freeh has a broad range of leadership experiences in law enforcement, the judiciary and international affairs,” said Douglas Ray, dean of the UT College of Law said in a news release. “He is uniquely qualified to discuss how our country should balance interests of personal liberty, the rule of law and national security.” |
| UT renovates room to aid domestic
violence victims The Toledo Blade The University of Toledo has helped make renovations that will provide comfort to children of domestic violence. The newly renovated children's room on the second floor of the Lucas County Domestic Relations Court Center, 429 North Michigan St., will be unveiled during a ceremony at 11 a.m. today. |
| Oct. 1, 2008 |
| UT, Case Western to get funds for research
center The Toledo Blade The University of Toledo college of medicine and another Ohio medical school will use $3 million in state funding to establish a center to study, develop, and commercialize drugs to treat disorders of the immune system, such as rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, and lupus, UT announced yesterday. The former Medical College of Ohio will use $2.08 million of $3 million from the Ohio Third Frontier Program to renovate and add both laboratory and office space for two research scientists to be recruited by UT. |
| Jacobs, Szuch appointed to port authority
board The Toledo Blade The Lucas County commissioners yesterday appointed University of Toledo President Lloyd Jacobs and local Fifth Third Bank executive John Szuch to the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority Board of Directors. The commissioners also re-appointed developer Bailey Stanbery to the board. Dr. Jacobs has been president of UT since 2006. Before then, he was president of the Medical University of Ohio, the former Medical College of Ohio, before it merged with UT. |
| UT's Jazz Ensemble to pay tribute to jazz legend Jimmy Cook,
Oct. 6 The Toledo Blade The University of Toledo Jazz Ensemble honors Jimmy Cook with, “Celebrating Jimmy: A Concert Tribute to Jazz Legend Jimmy Cook” on Monday, Oct. 6, 208, at 8 p.m. in the UT Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall. This concert features the jazz legend’s favorite tunes such as “Wee Dot,” “Anthropology,” “Love for Sale,” and “There Will Never be Another You.” |
