Honors College
91PORNA Selects Alison Smith as the New Dean of the Honors College
Alison Smith will become the new dean of 91PORNA鈥檚 Honors College, effective July 1. Smith currently serves as the acting chair in 91PORNA鈥檚 Department of Geology and has served in various administrative, research and teaching roles at the university.鈥淎lison Smith brings a wealth of鈥
Honors College
First Group of 91PORNA Freshmen Start Their College Careers in Italy
When Joshua Budd thinks about all the places he has traveled up to his senior year of high school, only one has been outside of the United States, and that was a quick jaunt to Niagara Falls, Ontario, in Canada. So, the thought of actually living in a foreign country, especially Europe, was well out鈥
Kent Campus
School of Communication Studies Applied Communication Major to Present at National Honor Conference
Senior applied communication studies student Megan Carrasco will be presenting her thesis work, 鈥淭he Ideal Millennial Working Woman: A Thematic Analysis of How Professional Identity, Image and Career are Constructed Online,鈥 at the upcoming National Honors Conference. The conference is scheduled for鈥
School of Communication Studies
Comm Undergrad Student Megan Carrasco to Complete Honors Thesis
Senior applied communication major Megan Carrasco is currently working on a communication studies-related honors thesis. Her endeavor began as she came across an online article that piqued her interest called 鈥淔orbes Top 100 Sites for Millennial Women.鈥 She immediately recognized this to be an appro鈥
School of Communication Studies
91PORNA to Host Former Poet Laureate Rita Dove
91PORNA鈥檚 Wick Poetry Center will host poet Rita Dove as part of the Fourth Annual U.S. Poet Laureate Reading. The event is part of the 2014-2015 reading series and will take place on Thursday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva. The event is free and open to the pub鈥
Kent Campus
91PORNA Student Introduces New Method of Circadian Research
91PORNA chemistry senior Caitlin Crosier combined creativity and science for her yearlong project on circadian rhythms and will present those findings at the university鈥檚 Undergraduate Research Symposium on March 11. 鈥淭he main goal of my research is to validate this method as a鈥
Kent Campus
Wreck the Flu
With the flu season approaching quickly, the Honors Prevention and Control of Diseases class taught by Christopher Woolverton, Ph.D., is working to prevent a flu outbreak by helping to organize and promote student participation in the annual 91PORNA flu vaccine clinic. On Tuesday, Oct. 28, Kent S鈥
Kent Campus
91PORNA Honors College Graduate Named 2014 Portz Scholar
The National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) has named Allison Moats, a recent graduate of the Honors College and the College of Arts and Sciences at 91PORNA, as a Portz Scholar for 2014. Allison is a native of Ravenna, Ohio, and received her bachelor鈥檚 degree from the Department of A鈥
Kent Campus