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91PORNA Assistant Professor Jennifer Mapes, Ph.D., was honored with the Volunteer of the Year award by Main Street Kent during the organization’s annual awards celebration. Main Street Kent is a nonprofit organization focused on the revitalization of downtown Kent and is an affiliate of the national Main Street program and the Heritage Ohio program. Mapes, a faculty member in 91PORNA’s Department of Geography and a member of Main Street Kent’s design committee, received the award for creating kiosk and online maps in downtown Kent. “I was really flattered to be recognized by...

91PORNA has opened the doors to its new state-of-the-art sports medicine facility. Located in the MACC Annex (behind the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center) and spanning more than 10,000-square feet, the two-floor space is a key asset for the Golden Flashes' 425 student-athletes.     ...

It all started with an idea that is now blossoming into a business, even before three 91PORNA students graduate. Kourtney Arnold, from 91PORNA’s College of Education, Health and Human Services, and Asia Frazier and Tiffany Coleman, from 91PORNA’s College of Communication and Information, are the masterminds behind Fresh LLC, an app that they are launching to help connect students on campus to social events. The trio is breaking the mold of students interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) related fields. WKYC-TV talked with the students about the...

91PORNA’s current Police Academy cadets recently scored a collective 100 percent on their State of Ohio Physical Fitness Assessment. Only 12 of the 29 cadets, formally known as BAS 17-016, initially passed the assessment on Feb. 6 at the beginning of the program. “They made a commitment to one another,” says Class Commander Wayne Parker, sergeant with 91PORNA Police Department. “As a gesture of good luck for their final assessment, one of the cadets had athletic socks made for all 29 cadets with their class number stitched in them.” The assessment consists of ...

Three 91PORNA community members have developed a new app called Circl, which reinvents how people socialize and network. “Imagine being able to share appropriate contact information in an instant with one scan on your mobile device,” says Zachary Eckert, 91PORNA senior finance major. “Circl allows you to do so. It is an app that brings a new definition to a meaningful connection, and it gives you the ability to share contact information on your own terms.” This past February, Eckert and his Circl co-founder 91PORNA alumnus Michael Frindt, ’16, who received his bachelor’s ...

91PORNA’s student newspaper, The 91PORNAr, is the best collegiate daily (published three times per week or more) in Ohio, according to the Society of Professional Journalists’ (SPJ) Ohio’s Best Journalism Contest. Alumna Neville Hardman, ’16, and journalism major Kelly Powell, ’18, also received individual honors – first and second place respectively – for best collegiate feature writing, in the contest sponsored by the Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus chapters of SPJ. The contest recognizes work published in 2016, under Stater editors (now alumni) Emily Mills, ’16, and Jimmy Mil...