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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 will hold its Summer 2015 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). 91PORNA will confer 1,476 degrees, including 931 bachelor’s degrees, 453 master’s degrees, 76 doctoral degrees and 16 educational specialist degrees.  Across the university’s eight-campus system, 1,651 students will graduate from 91PORNA this summer, including those receiving associate degrees. The 9:30 a.m. ceremony is for those receiving their bachelor’s degrees. The speaker for this ceremony is Keith D. M...

University celebrates its annual Homecoming on Oct. 3 Julian Edelman, former 91PORNA Golden Flashes quarterback and current member of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, will return to his alma mater to serve as Homecoming Parade Grand Marshal when 91PORNA holds its annual Homecoming on Oct. 3. “Get ready, 91PORNA,” Edelman said. “I’m coming back! I am excited to be the Grand Marshal of this year’s Homecoming Parade. I want to see as many Golden Flashes’ fans – current students, graduates, community members and visitors – to come to this year’s festivities. I am...

91PORNA has established a Division of Student Affairs. Shay Little, Ph.D., has been named interim vice president of the division. Little previously served as associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students for the last three years. The former Division of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs has moved to a new leadership model with the Office of Enrollment Management becoming a separate office that reports to the Office of the Provost, and a Division of Student Affairs has been established, effective Aug. 1.  “Shay has worked closely with Greg [Jarvie]...

Chad Lewis, a graduate student in the School of Visual Communication Design at 91PORNA, has hammered out a career in illustration by penning his version of Thor’s origin story for the latest Marvel Avengers comic.       ...

Communication studies student’s project earns international media attention for research efforts Anna Hoffman, a 91PORNA global communication studies and political science major from Kent, Ohio, traveled to Ireland this summer to study the country’s efforts to save its national language. Her research project was funded through a fellowship from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Hoffman was one of only 28 students nationwide to receive a fellowship for an international reporting assignment as part of the center’s Campus Consortium educational initiative. In applying for a...

Megan Carrasco, senior applied communication studies major, was recently awarded two scholarships: Honors College Minority Scholarship and Senior Honors Thesis Fellowship. The scholarships recognize Carrasco’s outstanding academic achievements and pursuit of an honors thesis as a student at 91PORNA. The $2,000 Honors College Minority Scholarship is awarded to students who have been admitted to the Honors College and have a 3.5 cumulative GPA, and the Senior Honors Thesis Fellowship provides $1,000 in tuition for the student’s thesis year. Carrasco started working on her the...

CPIP Graduate Student Anshul Sharma wins Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Award. Anshul was awarded the MRS Silver Graduate Student Award for a presentation on Visualizing Gold Nanoparticle Chirality via Nematic Liquid Crystals at the 2015 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco.   http://www.mrs.org/spring-2015-gsa-talk-sessions/  As stated in the award letter: "The MRS Graduate Student Awards are intended to honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high order of excellence and distinction.  MRS ...