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NOTEWORTHY
Elizabeth ‘Like’ Lokon MAT ’93 PhD ’97 MGS ’08 of Miami’s Scripps Gerontology Center, will take her Opening Minds through Art program to Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia for the academic year 2021-2022 through the Fulbright Scholars program. Her project is titled “Using Art to Teach Intergenerational Service Learning for People Living with Dementia.” Daryl Baldwin, Myaamia Center executive director and a leader in Native American language and cultural revitalization, has been nominated by President Joe Biden to the National Council on the Humanities, which advises the National Endowment for the Humanities chairman. A citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, Baldwin is an adjunct assistant professor in educational leadership and also serves as co-director of the National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages, based in the Myaamia Center on Miami University’s Oxford campus. The Ohio Department of Higher Education has awarded Miami nearly $600,000 to help improve Ohio’s workforce development capacity by supporting in-state students in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). With the new Choose Ohio First grant, Miami’s College of Engineering and Computing will recruit and support more than a dozen Ohio students per year studying robotics, manufacturing, or automation. . 8
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RISING RANKS
10th 37th
In Undergraduate Engineering Program among National Public Universities, U.S. New & World Report
among top 40 of nation’s “Best Value Public Colleges,” as ranked by Princeton Review, April 20, 2021
Stellar Professors Tammy Kernodle, professor of musicology, and David Berg, professor of
both biology and biological sciences, each have been awarded the title of University Distinguished Professor by Miami’s board of trustees. “She has a stellar reputation in the field of musicology,” a nominator wrote of Kernodle, also affiliate faculty of American studies, Black world studies, and women, gender, and sexuality studies. “But more than that, she is widely admired as a person of great integrity and
caring who seeks to make higher education a more welcoming place for all.” Berg researches the evolution and conservation of biodiversity, focusing on endangered freshwater mussels. “What I find particularly extraordinary when reviewing Dr. Berg’s career,” an external nominator said, “is his ability to manage a first-class research program, mentor graduate and undergraduate students, and serve the university and the wider community,” given his heavy teaching load at the Regionals.
What we always suspected was confirmed in April. Miami is indeed somewhere over the rainbow.
