Shawnee State University's Plastics Engineering Technology received a donation of 1,600 pounds of white Acrylonitrile Styrene Acrylate (ASA) material from MHolland Company.

The donated ASA materials will be used to create a "living wall" as part of the upgrade to the new Plastics Engineering Technology facilities. The wall will consist of 3,564 hexagons ranging from 2.5 to 4.5 inches in maximal diameter. Hexagons will be produces via injection molding in the Mold Design Class and Senior Project Class. Students will manufacture the hexagons during the 2018 fall semester.

A $2.7 million Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant award will complete Shawnee State University's Kricker Innovation Hub in downtown Portsmouth, OH. The announcement was made to a crowd of business leaders, community supporters, students and Shawnee State faculty during a ribbon-cutting ceremony held today at the partially renovated facility at 3rd and Chillicothe Street.

Shawnee State University is proud to announce the Digital History Lab has received a generous donation of $10,000 from Linda Donaldson.

Donaldson is a Portsmouth community member and business owner of Copies Galore on Second Street. She is also a member of Main Street Portsmouth. Donaldson has a degree in Library Science from the University of Kentucky. She has previously worked at the Portsmouth Library with Janet Steward, Dean of SSU’s Clark Memorial Library.