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In the races for U.S. Senator and the governorship in Ohio, there has been little movement among undecided voters. In all three polls, Democratic incumbent Senator Brown had at least a 15-point lead over Republican Congressman Renacci. In the most recent poll, Brown leads Renacci, by about 20 points, with 17% of respondents indicating they are unsure how they will vote.

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A Baldwin Wallace University statewide survey reveals that the Ohio governor’s race is a statistical tie. In a two-way race, DeWine holds a 42% to 40% advantage over Democrat Richard Cordray among voters stating a preference. More than 18% say they remain unsure about how they will vote for governor.

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A Baldwin Wallace University survey reveals that a strong majority of likely Ohio voters have magnified the significance of the 2018 midterm elections, with nearly 58% saying that voting this November is more important than in previous midterms.

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A poll of Ohio registered voters conducted by the Community Research Institute at Baldwin Wallace University finds that many are still undecided about who they will vote for in Ohio’s May 8 primary. The survey of 811 voters was conducted April 24 – May 2.

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A survey of Ohioans, conducted by Baldwin Wallace University’s Community Research Institute (CRI), found broad support for new measures to regulate the sale of firearms with three quarters of registered voters in favor of raising the minimum age to buy semiautomatic rifles to 21 and establishing mandatory waiting periods to purchase a gun.

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A member of the Baldwin Wallace University public health faculty is helping to lead an international research project to investigate how variations in climate are affecting Southeast Asia’s susceptibility to deadly mosquito-borne illnesses, particularly dengue fever, the fastest spreading mosquito-borne viral disease in the world.

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In the era of "fake news," cyber attacks and "alternative facts," a Baldwin Wallace University professor arms teachers and students with a guide to distinguish the truth from deceptive information.

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Building on its national reputation in the performing arts, Baldwin Wallace University has added a dance and movement emphasis to its major in theatre.

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In a novel approach to keeping low-income students academically on track, Baldwin Wallace University is offering six hours of free, 2017 summer school tuition to qualifying, full-time undergraduate students already enrolled at BW. The goal of the pilot program is to make it easier for BW’s Pell-eligible students to graduate on time.

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A new statewide Ohio poll conducted by Baldwin Wallace University finds voters remain deeply divided on many issues in the early days of the Donald Trump administration, including an equal split on whether they trust the president or the media (or neither) to tell the truth.

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In one of television’s more bizarre recent offerings, the History Channel show “Appalachian Outlaws” follows a band of West Virginians as they hunt rugged forests for American ginseng, a medicinal root worth hundreds of dollars per pound. The show has high stakes: These men poach on federal lands, risking fines and jail time, and guard private patches with shotguns and homemade land mines. Most of them are out of work, out of savings and worried about paying for food and heat. Ginseng gives them a way to get by.

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The earthworm, friend to fisherman, farmer and gardener, turns out to be a potential enemy of the forest, damaging and altering the woodland understory and native plants. With the aim of contributing to national research on the threat of invasive earthworms, BW biology students are collecting and studying specimens from local parklands.

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Baldwin Wallace University students are preparing to plug into the highly anticipated Republican National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland, which features insurgent candidate Donald Trump as the presumptive nominee. Nine BW students will be embedded the Ohio Republican Party’s Official Honorary Delegate Program, while another 13 BW students will join 125 students from colleges across the country to attend The Washington Center (TWC) Academic Convention Seminar. BW is home base for TWC’s two-week immersive convention experience.

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Dr. Lauren Copeland, associate director of BW’s Community Research Institute and assistant professor of political science, has published a new article focusing on the relationship between social media use and political participation in the Journal of Information Technology & Politics. "Networked Publics: How Connective Social Media Use Facilitates Political Consumerism among LGBT Americans" examines "how social media use increases the likelihood of engaging in political activism among members of an LGBT issue public with varying levels of political interest."

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On the eve of Ohio’s winner-take-all primary election, a majority of Northeast Ohio Republicans (53%) believe the state’s Governor, John Kasich, should stay in the race for his party’s presidential nomination, a new Baldwin Wallace (BW) University poll of registered voters in Northeast Ohio finds.

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Retired T. Rowe Price executive and Baldwin Wallace University alumnus, Stephen Boesel has committed $15 million to his Alma Mater (the largest gift in the institution's history) to advance the study of business at BW through scholarships, faculty support and more.

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As Ohio teachers prepared to be evaluated on student test scores, they increasingly began to balk at turning their classrooms over to student teachers. The resulting placement shortage inspired a grassroots alliance of Ohio education stakeholders to seek new ways to provide this crucial classroom experience to future teachers in training. Co-teaching, a new approach borrowed from special education is now being piloted by Baldwin Wallace University in the Berea, Ohio schools. The method aims to reverse the shortage of student teaching placements, fueled by fears about new accountability standards for teachers.

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A newly evolved Arts Management and Entrepreneurship program integrates the artistic, business and entrepreneurship education that best prepares students for career success.

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The research demonstrates that administering both low and high doses of ketamine induced a neuroprotective protein, ADNP, in cortical neurons. High doses of ketamine altered the ability of an axon to find its proper target despite the presence of ADNP, whereas low doses of ketamine appeared beneficial.

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Starting in the fall 2015, business analytics is one of two new concentrations that will be offered in the evolved MBA program.

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“Slow and steady wins the race” was not lost on Cheryl Sebjenics. The 58-year-old Ohio woman just graduated from Baldwin Wallace University after taking one—and only one—class per semester (fall, spring and summer), since 2000. This month, 14 years after her first math class at the suburban Cleveland university, Sebjenics received her degree in business administration and human resources from BW.

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Baldwin Wallace University and Ohio University's Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine have entered into an early medical school acceptance agreement aimed at developing a pipeline of pre-med students committed to primary care.

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Baldwin Wallace University has unveiled the new Primary Healthcare Advancement Program, a specialized pre-med track linked with early assurance medical school acceptance. The distinctive new PHAP is the only such program in the state of Ohio.

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Baldwin Wallace University has named Long Island, N.Y. native and geologist, Stephen D. Stahl as Provost. Stahl is currently Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Wheeling Jesuit University in W.Va. His appointment will take effect on June 17.

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As tech employers struggle to find qualified workers, Baldwin Wallace University has joined forces with a Northeast Ohio software company to motivate high school students to consider computing careers.

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Advice for holiday shopping the BEST way: Build skills, Entertain, Stimulate imagination and Teach teamwork.

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Baldwin Wallace University has opened the doors to a new campus program that encourages young people to pursue entrepreneurship as a career and to turn untested ideas into real business ventures. Some 57 students have signed up since the opening, with 33 venture ideas in the pipeline.

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The international Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has named Baldwin Wallace University’s neuroscience program the Undergraduate Program-of-the-Year, citing the University's innovative, tiered and powerfully successful peer mentoring program as key to the program's rise as a role model.

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Shop to build skills, entertain, stimulate imagination and teach teamwork. Includes sidebar on games that's build problem-solving skills.

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Kay E. Strong, Associate Professor of Economics at Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio writes, “The emergence of the 99% Movement is evidence of a healthy dynamic system in action... and the first visible populist challenge to the power and wealth distortions of the America’s "Big Men" since the 1960s."

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Professor Tom Sutton, Chair of the Department of Political Science at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio offer analysis of Occupy Wall Street, looking at parallels and differences with the Tea Party Movement.

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Baldwin-Wallace College is introducing a Four-Year Graduation Guarantee that enables students to earn their degree in four years, or have the College pay for up to one year of additional tuition for the extra time it takes them to finish.

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World-renowned soloists, Cleveland Orchestra musicians and Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory faculty/students will gather to perform some of the world’s greatest music at the 79th Annual Bach Festival on April 15-17. This landmark event features the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries.

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For the first time ever the musical RENT and opera La Boheme will appear in repertory. Baldwin-Wallace College is making theatre history by premiering its ground-breaking productions of La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini and RENT by Jonathan Larson on Feb. 15-27. This is the first time these two productions have been performed together...anywhere in the world!

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Baldwin-Wallace College (Berea, OH) is introducing its first online degree program. The hybrid MBA in Management combines the convenience of online study with challenging coursework and intense faculty support. Three-quarters of the coursework is online with 7 on-site weekend sessions spread over 2 years.

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The annual Baldwin-Wallace College Bach Festival, April 16-18, brings together international soloists, B-W students and faculty, who perform the music of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries.

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A love story that began nearly 80 years ago in a Baldwin-Wallace College science laboratory has resulted in a valentine that will help other students for years to come. It is the largest estate gift in the College's history.

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Physics Professor, Dr. Edwin Meyer, believes in toys and games that help develop young minds.

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The Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory will stage the opera La Boheme and the musical Rent in repertory in February 2011.

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The oldest collegiate Bach Festival in the country presents five concerts in three days featuring international soloists, with Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory students and faculty, performing the works of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries.

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A retired high school teacher who lived "frugally but joyfully" left a 2 million dollar bequest to Baldwin-Wallace College, her alma mater.

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Baldwin-Wallace College has established the first undergraduate major in sustainability in the State of Ohio.