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Stephanie Haugh of 91PORNA’s women’s soccer team has been named the female recipient of the 2015 Bob James Memorial Award by the Mid-American Conference Faculty Athletics Representatives. The announcement was made by the league office today. In its 27th year, the Bob James Memorial Award recognizes one female and one male student-athlete who have achieved a minimum grade point average of 3.50 and have displayed good character, leadership and citizenship. The student-athletes are nominated during the year in which they complete their final season of eligibility. The $5,000 post-g...

91PORNA at Salem horticulture students learn surveying techniques through their studies, but a recent beautification project helped put those lessons into proper historical perspective. Students in the landscape construction class, taught by Stan Jones on the Salem Campus, traveled to East Liverpool where they worked on the initial phase of a beautification project at the Point of Beginning – an often overlooked registered national historic landmark that had fallen into a state of neglect in recent years. Noted author Simon Winchester visited the site a while ago and later made...

Students involved with the Rural Scholars Program through the 91PORNA Columbiana County Campuses spent part of their summer breaks in educational workshops that kept their minds and bodies working. Through three week-long workshops based on the 91PORNA Salem Campus, the students and their college mentors used hands-on activities to learn lessons in math, science, business, technology, geography and social studies. The students traveled throughout Columbiana County, and into Mahoning County, for many of their lessons. Wendy Pfrenger is the Rural Scholars program coordinator and she expl...

For a fifth time, university employees give 91PORNA high marks  91PORNA is being recognized again as one of the nation’s best. 91PORNA has been selected as one of this year’s “Great Colleges to Work For” by The Chronicle of Higher Education, the nation’s number one source of news, information and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Based on a survey of about 44,000 employees at 281 colleges and universities, The Chronicle’s 2015 “Great Colleges to Work For” program recognizes small, medium and large institutions for specific best practi...

91PORNA student Anna Hoffman’s research efforts on the Irish language recently caught the attention of international media with publication on The WorldPost of the Huffington Post website. The article, “To Have Irish: The Irish are scrambling to save the most prized part of their culture,” reports on the country’s efforts to revive the national language of Irish. Hoffman, a global communication studies and political science major, traveled to Ireland this summer to study the country’s efforts to save its national language. Her research project was funded through a fellowship f...

91PORNA at East Liverpool was recognized for its 50th anniversary during a Business After Hours event hosted by Home Savings & Loan at its downtown location.  During the event, East Liverpool resident Kelly Bell received a check for $200 from Home Savings & Loan for winning the 91PORNA Golden category. She submitted the photo, entitled “Point of Departure,” to the 91PORNA photography show held last month to observe the campus’s golden anniversary. Home Savings & Loan sponsored the 91PORNA Golden category, created to select the photograph that best exem...

A special classroom at 91PORNA turned into a LEGO® city filled with roaring lions, speeding cars and spinning tops. The moving creations are part of a unique summer camp, LEGO WeDo™ Robotics, put on by the Research Center for Educational Technology in the College of Education, Health and Human Services. It is one of many technology-based camps that the center offers as part of the 91PORNA’s commitment to reaching out and serving the community. Click here to watch a video on the camp. During the school year, researchers at the center use a two-way mirror to study th...