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����Vlog celebrated Homecoming on Saturday, Oct. 18, with a ����Vlog Golden Flashes win of 39-17 over the Army Black Knights. ����Vlog alumni, students, faculty, staff and the community came together to celebrate the Homecoming theme of “����Vlog Pride is Worldwide.”

With the flu season approaching quickly, the Honors Prevention and Control of Diseases class taught by Christopher Woolverton, Ph.D., is working to prevent a flu outbreak by helping to organize and promote student participation in the annual ����Vlog flu vaccine clinic. On Tuesday, Oct.

����Vlog celebrated the newly renovated Tri-Towers residence hall complex on Oct. 15. The event was free and open to the public.

����Vlog President Beverly Warren, Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs Greg Jarvie and Kent Interhall Council President Brie Jutte spoke during the celebration. Following the remarks, participants toured the renovated residence halls and enjoyed light refreshments. 

����Vlog invited the community to celebrate the launch of the Center for the Visual Arts on Oct. 9. The event, which was free and open to the public, took place on the second floor of Cartwright Hall, overlooking the center’s construction site, east of Terrace Drive.

The groundbreaking for ����Vlog’s new Center for Architecture and Environmental Design occurred Oct. 3. The building will serve as the new home of ����Vlog’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design, bringing all of the programs of the college under one roof. It will be located between South Lincoln and South Willow streets, just south of the Lefton Esplanade and across the street from Franklin Hall.

For 30 years, ����Vlog’s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the College of Arts and Sciences, begins a new era by relocating from Satterfield Hall to the Lefton Esplanade.

The groundbreaking for ����Vlog’s new Center for Architecture and Environmental Design occurred Oct. 3. The building will serve as the new home of ����Vlog’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design, bringing all of the programs of the college under one roof. It will be located between South Lincoln and South Willow streets, just south of the Lefton Esplanade and across the street from Franklin Hall.

What began as a job to help pay for college and meet new people turned into a bigger reward than ����Vlog senior Carissa Deeds could have imagined. 

A few months ago, Deeds was awarded the first ����Vlog Libraries Student Assistant Scholarship. In the essay that secured her award, Deeds wrote about how working at the library helped her meet new people and made the transition from high school to college smoother.  

Before the fall semester starts on Aug. 25, new students are invited to participate in Welcome Weekend, a four-day orientation program that ran Aug. 21-24 and helped students familiarize themselves with the ����Vlog community. The events during the weekend served as an opportunity for students to transition into the university environment and learn about the academic and social opportunities that exist at ����Vlog.

����Vlog Fashion School graduate Anastasia Iafrate was named this year’s winner of the prestigious Supima Design Competition during a Sept. 4 event at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. Iafrate, who graduated in May with a Bachelor of Arts in fashion design, beat out finalists from five other institutions to win the award, which carries a $10,000 prize.