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Campuses Come Together at UToledo’s Inaugural Table Tennis Invitational

The University of Toledo’s Student Rec Center came alive with the excitement of table tennis enthusiasts as Juice House, in collaboration with the UToledo Table Tennis Club and UToledo Rec Center, hosted the inaugural 2023 UToledo Table Tennis Invitational. The event, which took place on Saturday, April 15, 2023, brought together teams from Cleveland State University, Miami University, Michigan State University and Oakland University...

Healthy Meals Under 10 Minutes

When you live on campus, finding good, quick, healthy food may seem difficult. Although the University offers a selection of restaurants for a fast meal in the Student Union on a dining plan, the choices may not always provide a good range of healthy options. So, as a student running between classes or powering through a study session, the last thought may be to...

Taking the Lead on Lead in Toledo, Ohio

Marilynne Wood first began researching lead poisoning in Toledo in order to investigate its potential correlation with school dropout and crime rates. A professor emeritus at the University of Toledo’s College of Nursing, her team started by speaking with nurses and screening children’s lead levels at local charter schools. Throughout the process, Wood was able to confirm her suspicions: that the students struggling with behavioral...

150 Years of Vision

“All people take pride in cities — in them naturally concentrate the great minds on the great wealth of the nation. The arts that adorn life are cultivated there, and from them flows out the knowledge that gives its current thought to the natural mind.”  — Jessup W. Scott, 1848.  As the founder of the University of Toledo, Jesup W. Scott had a vision for...

How to Improve the Quality of Your Coffee on Campus

Staying caffeinated on a tight budget can be difficult in college, and time is equally expensive amidst endless due dates and study sessions. So how can you enjoy quality coffee without the high café cost? Here are some inexpensive ways to get a great brew in your dorm room.  Try cold brew. Cold Brew allows for coffee extraction over time instead of conventional heat and pressure...

The Great Midwest Trivia Contest, Circa 1966

If you’ve ever played a game of trivia, you might be familiar with questions like “Who was the fifteenth president of the United States?” or “What element has an atomic number of 12?” How about “What is the ZIP code of the only place, according to a work by John Robbins, that has a reference work about Edward William Bok?”* The latter (you can find...