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The Cedarville University School of Pharmacy continues to exceed national norms. This year, 24 students or recent graduates in the school of pharmacy received residency opportunities. This gives Cedarville an 80% residency acceptance rate, while the national average is 77%. This matches trends over the past five years: during that period of time, Cedarville has had an average match rate of 80.2%, compared to a national average of 66.8%. Finally, one graduating student earned a fellowship with Johnson and Johnson.

More than five years after he survived a high school shooting, Logan Cole is preparing to graduate from Cedarville University. Cole, a senior information technology management student from West Liberty, Ohio, was a high school junior on January 20, 2017, when a classmate fired at him with a shotgun as he walked into a bathroom. Logan blacked out and, after waking up, managed to crawl to the other side of the bathroom.

Exercise provides physical and social benefits to people of all ages, whether that exercise takes the form of strength training or a relaxing neighborhood walk. Cedarville University student Bethany Laird is helping to promote exercise in the Springfield, Ohio, area as part of an internship with the Springfield Family YMCA and its Springfield Walks program.

It takes a big dream and work ethic to make a difference. This is what defines Rachel Nesmith, a Cedarville University junior social work major from Waldorf, Maryland, who has begun the process of remodeling a children's daycare room at a drug rehabilitation center in Springfield, Ohio. Nesmith and her team will complete the remodel on April 23. Nesmith was working on an assignment for a social work class when she took a tour of McKinley Hall, a non-profit organization in Springfield that serves people affected by substance abuse disorders. During the tour, she discovered a children's room that could use an update. Children play in the room while their parents receive treatment for substance abuse.

Grace Hong, a first-year Doctor of Pharmacy student at Cedarville University, will participate in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Hacking Medicine Grand Hack from April 15-17, 2022. While there, Hong, who is from Powell, Ohio, will work with a small team to propose and create a solution for a health care-related problem.

For many college students, holidays are an opportunity to travel home and spend time with loved ones. For some, it may be an opportunity to revisit the warm and inviting sights, sounds and places that have been with them since childhood.

Evan Weise may be different from other students because of his spinal muscular atrophy (SMARD), but his ability to experience college academics and life remain unaffected by his condition.

What do space travel, Elon Musk and entrepreneurship have in common? Cedarville senior Whitton Rice has the answer, which landed him a trip to Las Vegas to compete at a national economics conference. Rice, of Bloomington, Illinois, worked with Dr. Jeffrey Haymond, dean of the school of business and professor of economics at Cedarville University, to research different economic philosophies of entrepreneurship and the impact these ideas have on public policy.

While students from Cedarville University's NASA Student Launch team work hard on their rocket ahead of their competition later this month at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, they're also teaching rocket basics in the local community.

Cedarville University mechanical engineering students have built mind-blowing supermileage cars, solar boats, an AI golf cart, remote control planes and a rocket. Now, a group of mechanical engineering students is working to bring to market a versatile five-in-one lower body trainer. Peterson's inspiration blossomed into a five-in-one lower body trainer that also allows users to do sissy squats, Nordic curls, hip thrusters and isometric sit-ups. As he began work on the trainer's fourth iteration, Peterson brought in eight mechanical engineering students: Daniel Cavallaro of Callaway, Maryland; Caleb Spreckels of Smithtown, New York; John Thomson of Greenwood, Missouri; Andrew Yerkey of Dublin, Ohio; Ava Merrifield of Shiloh, Illinois; David Pyo of Delaware, Ohio; Ben Schultz of Metamora, Michigan; and Josiah Zurick of Middlefield, Ohio.

Cedarville University theatre's spring production of "The Beams are Creaking" will run from March 31-April 2 and April 7-10. The show's lead roles will be played by Josiah Kareck, senior from Antioch, Tennessee, as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Sam Acosta, junior from Noblesville, Indiana, as Corporal Knobloch, along with a supporting cast who portray friends, family and co-conspirators.

The Cedarville University School of Pharmacy has partnered with 4CancerWellness (4CW) in Dayton, Ohio, to support cancer patients by evaluating potential new vitamins and supplements that could help with the effects of cancer and cancer treatments. The goal: "Helping cancer patients to feel better and do better," which is the 4CW mission statement. Students involved in the research include fourth-year pharmacy students Erin Ballentine of Walkersville, Maryland, and Renee Allison of Seven Fields, Pennsylvania, and third-year pharmacy students Alex Goodridge of Cedarville, Ohio; Andrew Barnhart of Warren, Ohio; Hayley Trout of Pickerington, Ohio; and Megan Stevens of Uniontown, Ohio.

Growing up, Cedarville University student Karley Amelemah witnessed how pharmacists in her home nation of Ghana improved her grandmother's quality of life. Their example spurred her to become a pharmacist too, a decision that led her from west Africa to southwest Ohio and back. Now, Amelemah is a fourth-year professional pharmacy student at Cedarville University. Her family moved to the United States, settling in Hartsdale, New York. This past January, she returned to Ghana for a monthly pharmacy rotation.

A 2021 Cedarville University graduate is helping French-speaking Haitian children bridge not just a language gap but a huge culture chasm in his efforts to teach them English. Since the fall, 2021 linguistics graduate Ian MacPhail-Fausey has been teaching Haitian children how to speak English in Springfield, Ohio schools, an area in dire need of help with their growing Haitian immigrant population.

The Cove academic enrichment center will launch its Accelerate Reading Program on February 18. Course content will be delivered online year-round and will be available to students from any college or high school. The course's content has been recorded entirely by students, giving the program a creative and colorful spin on online education. The students involved include Justin Schlabach from Apple Creek, Ohio, Sarah Colgan from Raleigh, North Carolina, Clint Brads from Xenia, Ohio, Gloria Shaw Ojeda from New Delhi, India, and Kasey Pot from Lebanon, Ohio.

The following students were named to the Dean's Honor List at Cedarville University for Fall 2021. This recognition requires the student to obtain a 3.75 GPA or higher for the semester and carry a minimum of 12 credit hours.

For nearly 20 years, Cedarville University has helped local homeschool families integrate physical education into their children's academic schedules. The homeschool classes will be taught by juniors in Cedarville's Multi-Age Health and Physical Education (MAHPE) program, providing Cedarville students with real-world teaching experience before they get in-school student teaching experience. Helping out this year are Eli Schmidt of Pace, Florida; Rachel Mollohan of Etna, Ohio; Lucas Beckerink of Clymer, New York; and Garrett Lashuay of Oakwood, Illinois.

A new student organization at Cedarville University is fast-tracking undergrads for some of the most in-demand career fields in America. The group's focus is to promote interdisciplinary participation across Cedarville's STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) students. "Our chapter helps to make a bridge between physical sciences and the life sciences at Cedarville through various activities," Pereira noted. "This is the only student chapter which brings together all STEM students. The students seek to point upward as they become more involved on campus and with other universities. "Being a Christian school, we want to have a good testimony out in the world for Jesus," said junior Ethan Doerstling from Arvada, Colorado. "We have an opportunity to reach out to other schools and show them there are Christians doing science." The students helping to lead the group are Ethan Doerstling, Izzy Coiro, Ben Veenstra, Adam Klauk, Kyra Becker, Angela Aad, Nathan Lee.

Cincinnati Bengals fans everywhere are eagerly awaiting their team's first Super Bowl appearance in more than 30 years. But one Cedarville University alumna and a current student won't just be watching the big game as fans, but as athletic trainers who worked with the Bengals during this championship season. Cedarville's relationship with the Bengals dates to 2011, when associate professor of athletic training and athletic training program director Mike Weller began working for the team as a certified athletic trainer. He continued there until 2014. Additionally, senior athletic training student Kurtis Gould from Pickerington, Ohio, has spent this season with the Bengals on a clinical rotation. He started in May 2021, and his rotation will end after the Super Bowl.

Dr. Andrew Straw, an assistant professor of pharmacy practice, along with two of his Cedarville University pharmacy students, recently developed a smoking cessation curriculum for use in pharmacies nationwide. The innovative project is in conjunction with Cedarville's Center for Pharmacy Innovation (CPI) and the Ohio Pharmacists Association (OPA). Two Cedarville pharmacy students and CPI interns, fourth-year student Matt Merical of Centerville, Ohio, and first-year student Luke O'Brien of Powell, Ohio, researched pharmacy practices in other states to determine how they implement smoking cessation programs. They also promoted the program and assessed pharmacists on how helpful they found the program.

Dr. Heather Kuruvilla and her students at Cedarville University are researching ways to stop cancer before it starts. Kuruvilla, senior professor of biology, along with a team of undergraduate students including Madeline Ardrey, Kaylee Howell, Abbigail Paterson, Adin Pendell, Ezra Shimabenga, Nicholas Silveira, Anna Tomic, Sarah Harmon, Jeremy Lun, Jenna Martin, Benjamin Place, and Spencer Reynolds sought to discover if Tetrahymena thermophila, a single-celled organism commonly used in experimental biology, possessed proteins similar to Ras and Raf, two proteins that regulate cell reproduction in humans.

Dr. Andrew Straw, an assistant professor of pharmacy practice, along with two of his Cedarville University pharmacy students, recently developed a smoking cessation curriculum for use in pharmacies nationwide. The innovative project is in conjunction with Cedarville's Center for Pharmacy Innovation (CPI) and the Ohio Pharmacists Association (OPA). Two Cedarville pharmacy students and CPI interns, fourth-year student Matt Merical of Centerville, Ohio, and first-year student Luke O'Brien of Powell, Ohio, researched pharmacy practices in other states to determine how they implement smoking cessation programs. They also promoted the program and assessed pharmacists on how helpful they found the program.

A team of Cedarville University students have worked for months designing and testing a rocket that will be used for the 2022 NASA Student Launch competition April 20-23 in Huntsville, Alabama. "I don't foresee any significant issues building it, since our full-scale design isn't significantly different from the subscale," said senior mechanical engineering major and team leader Chad Sanderson of North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.

Once told he would never speak, one Cedarville student is proving his doctors wrong by winning state and national awards with the university's speech team. Senior Paul Miller from Chariton, Iowa, was 18 months old when doctors noticed moderate hearing loss during a wellness check. Now, Miller is a broadcasting and digital media major at Cedarville University, living free from all effects of his former disorder. He uses his voice at every opportunity, including theatre performances and as a member of Cedarville's speech team.

ND Nguyen, a second-year pharmacy student from Vietnam, will lead a medical mission trip for Cedarville University Global Outreach to serve the refugee population in Clarkston, Georgia, during spring break 2022.

Frustrated that they were unable to foster personal relations with inmates at the Clark County Jail because of restrictions implemented during COVID-19, Cedarville University's Clark County Jail Ministry student chaplains found a way to minister to inmates. They began serving at Greene County Jail in Xenia, Ohio.

When fellow students at Cedarville University asked newly enrolled Anna Grace Galkin where she was from, she hesitated. This was because the longest she had called any place home was approximately four months. As the daughter of an itinerant preacher who led the self-run Galkin Evangelistic Ministries, Anna Grace's family traveled around the United States, sharing the gospel and encouraging local congregations.

When Cedarville University senior William Brethauer was a junior in high school, he never could have anticipated that a broken nose would lead to a lifelong passion, one which eventually led to an Olympics-sized business success.

The latter role is important because the Charitable Pharmacy doesn't charge patients, whom it calls neighbors, for medication. Volunteers, including students, who are willing to devote their time to the pharmacy are crucial to the pharmacy's operations. The program precepts students from eight different colleges of pharmacy and hosts 80 rotations a year. Already this school year, two fourth-year Cedarville pharmacy students have worked on rotations at St. Vincent de Paul: Erin Ballentine of Walkersville, Maryland, and Jessica Istifan of Cedarville, Ohio.

When Julie Clark, a 1998 English education major, graduated from Cedarville University, she expected to be a teacher. Little did she know, however, that her students would be those learning how to create desserts and breakfast specialties through recipes posted on her family business food blog. The online food blog, Tastes of Lizzy T, began as a midterm creative project for Maddie, Julie's oldest child, when she was a sixth-grader at a charter school in Springfield, Ohio. Maddie is now a senior at Cedarville, majoring in English.