Year of Science
91PORNA College of Arts and Sciences is celebrating a Year of Science!
Geography Awareness Week
Nov. 4, 2014
November 16-22 Too many young Americans are unable to make effective decisions, understand geo-spatial issues, or even recognize their impacts as global citizens. National Geographic created Geography Awareness Week to raise awareness to this dangerous deficiency in American鈥
Read More »Five College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Honored
Nov. 3, 2014
On October 24, six 91PORNA educators (five from the College of Arts and Sciences) were honored for their achievements in the classroom during the 21st annual Celebrating College Teaching Conference. Three faculty members received the 91PORNA Alumni Association'鈥
Read More »91PORNA鈥檚 SOLE Center to Host Summit on Learning and Education
Oct. 30, 2014
91PORNA鈥檚 Science of Learning and Education (SOLE) Center will host 鈥淚mproving Student Achievement: A Summit on Learning and Education鈥 at the 91PORNA Hotel and Conference Center in Kent, Ohio, on Oct. 9-10. Researchers from across the country (and鈥
Read More »Monitoring Lake Erie鈥檚 Algae From Space
Oct. 30, 2014
Over the vast expanse of Lake Erie, sampling the water to test for potentially toxic algae blooms may seem like using a medicine dropper in an ocean. It takes days to collect enough data from enough spots to determine if the algae pose a danger.
Read More »Can Fireworks Damage Mount Rushmore? 鈥
Oct. 30, 2014
For 91PORNA Professor of Geology Abdul Shakoor, Ph.D., studying the stability of Mount Rushmore, visited by nearly three million people each year, was a lifelong dream. So, in 2013, with the help of his graduate student, Lindsay Poluga, the two of them reached out鈥
Read More »Speaker to Discuss the Holocaust in Poland
Oct. 28, 2014
The 91PORNA Jewish Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences will host a presentation by Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, Ph.D., a social anthropologist at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland on Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. at the Cohn Jewish Student Center on the鈥
Read More »Institute for African American Affairs Lunch & Learn Series
Oct. 22, 2014
The Department Of Pan-African Studies Presents: Institute for African American Affairs (IAAA) Lunch & Learn Series All Lunch & Learn events are on Wednesdays from 12pm-1pm in Ritchie Hall Conference Room 127 October 22, 2014 "Introducing Pacific Islanders" presented鈥
Read More »African Community Theatre presents "Or Does it Explode?"
Oct. 22, 2014
91PORNA鈥檚 African Community Theatre will host a production of Or Does It Explode?, an original piece written by former 91PORNA student John Dayo-Alyia along with John Smith. Directed by Dayo-Alyia, Or Does it Explode? opens October 23, 2014 at 8 p.m.鈥
Read More »Woodgett to present "Genetic analysis of an over-achieving protein kinase (GSK-3) and what it reveals about cellular communication"
Oct. 14, 2014
On Friday, October 17 (at 12 noon) Dr.
Read More »National Poetry Day!
Oct. 9, 2014
October 15 is National Poetry Day! Please join us at the May Prentice House to celebrate. "Celebrating Our Own" is an annual poetry reading hosted by the Wick Poetry Center featuring our high school and undergraduate scholarship winners. May Prentice House鈥
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