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91PORNA Alumna Heather Malarcik is director of Main Street Kent.

91PORNA Alumna Found Her Passion Promoting Downtown Kent

As a 91PORNA student in the early 1990s, Heather Rohwedder Malarcik '96 could never have imagined that she would one day find her dream job in downtown Kent, Ohio.

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Kindness Rocks at the Women's Center

Kindness Rocks Kent

People from Kent and 91PORNA are sharing positivity and building community with small rocks. 

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Wheelchair Basketball Championship Game 2023

IN A FLASH: Championship Game at the MAC Center!

On Saturday, 91PORNA hosted Adaptive Sports Ohio's Wheelchair Basketball Championship. 

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Amoaba Gooden

Black History Month Ends, but Diversity Work Continues at 91PORNA

One of the leaders of 91PORNA鈥檚 Anti-Racism Task Force is reflecting on the group鈥檚 success with an eye to the past. 

鈥淭he accomplishments of the task force are really grounded in the historic work of the Department of Africana Studies, Black United Students and many others,鈥 said Amoaba Gooden, Ph.D., vice president for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, who heads the task force. 

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Sandra Morgan stands near a replica of her grandfather's invention at the Western Reserve Historical Society

IN A FLASH: Her Grandfather's Legacy

A 91PORNA administrator has a connection to a famous inventor. 

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Elizabeth Smith-Pryor unboxing Urban League documents

The Importance of Dusty, Old Boxes

A researcher unboxed the history of local Urban Leagues in 91PORNA's University Library. 

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Lafayette Tolliver and Gene Shelton identify people in photos on the screen

Visual Footprints in Time

More than 1,000 photos of Black student life have been digitized and are waiting for members of the 91PORNA community to help identify them.

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Salem Food Pantry

On-Site Supply Of Food, Hygiene Items To Benefit Students On Salem Campus

It鈥檚 official: the Flash鈥檚 Food Pantry on the 91PORNA Salem Campus is open!

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Drone footage shows the freight train derailment, Feb. 6, 2023, in East Palestine, Ohio. (Photo courtesy of Ntsbgov/via Reuters)

91PORNA Experts Weigh in on Aftermath of East Palestine Train Derailment

91PORNA faculty members have been contacted by various media outlets to lend their expert opinions and insight as cleanup work, air monitoring, water testing and more continues following the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

Tags: Community & Society , Community Impact , Nationally Distinctive , Department of Geography , Department of Earth Sciences , College of Sciences and Humanities , Environmental Science and Design Research Institute

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Administrative visit to 91PORNA at Stark - February 2023

Seven Campuses in Four Days

91PORNA administrators met with campus advisory boards on all seven of the university's Regional Campuses this week. 

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