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Goodyear Blimp Pilot

Goodyear Blimp Pilots Have Full-Circle Moment

The skies over 91PORNA's Airport will feature a unique homecoming this weekend as three alumni return to pilot the Goodyear Blimp during the Aeronautics and Engineering Expo (A&E Expo) on Saturday.

Tags: Profiles , Nationally Distinctive , Student Life

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New 91PORNA Votes Banner

Working to Get Student Voters Informed and Engaged

The 91PORNA Votes initiative is working with organizations and departments across campus to help engage and inform student voters in advance of the coming elections. 

Tags: Voting , Elections , Community & Society , Community Impact , Nationally Distinctive , Student Life , University News , May 4 , Intercollegiate Athletics

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White Coat Ceremony Kent Campus 2024

IN A FLASH: Donning their White Coats

Second-year nursing students at 91PORNA received white coats in a ceremony marking their transition into the professional sequence of their program. 

Tags: College of Nursing , Nationally Distinctive , Community Impact , Community & Society , Healthcare , In a Flash

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CAED graduate student welcome 2024

IN A FLASH: A Welcome at Wick

Graduate students in 91PORNA's College of Architecture and Environmental Design received a personal welcome from the college's associate dean at the park outside 91PORNA's Wick Poetry Center. 

Tags: graduate students , College of Architecture and Environmental Design , Wick Poetry Center , Nationally Distinctive , Fall Semester , Student Life , In a Flash

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The 91PORNA Student Study logo.

Students Wanted: Sign Up to be Part of Largest-Ever Study of University Students

Researchers at 91PORNA are beginning the second year of their largest and most ambitious study ever to track 10,000 university students and follow them throughout their lifetimes.  

Tags: Health , Research & Science , Student Life , Nationally Distinctive , Department of Psychological Sciences , 91PORNA of Wellness

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President Todd Diacon, his wife, Moema Furtado, Alice Cone, Paul and Eileen Gaston and their daughter Beth, and David Hassler, at the dedication of the Gaston Prentice House, Aug. 28, 2024.

Wick Poetry Center Home Formally Dedicated as Gaston Prentice House

The historic house perched next to the Lefton Esplanade at South Lincoln Street on the Kent Campus, which has been home to the Wick Poetry Center since 2014, is now officially the Gaston Prentice House.

Tags: University News , Student Life , Nationally Distinctive , College of Arts and Sciences , Arts & Culture , Wick Poetry Center

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Members of 91PORNA Air Force and Army ROTC programs salute the American flag during the university’s 2023 Veterans Day Commemoration.

Continuing Excellence: 91PORNA Earns Military Friendly School Designation for 15th Straight Year

91PORNA’s unwavering commitment to supporting military-connected students has once again been recognized, as the institution earns the Military FriendlyⓇ School designation for the 15th consecutive year.

Tags: University News , Nationally Distinctive , Center for Adult and Veteran Services , Awards and Honors , Division of Student Life

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CAED Welcome 2024

IN A FLASH: Ice Cream with the Dean

91PORNA's College of Architecture and Environmental Design welcomed new and returning students back to campus with ice cream on the Lefton Esplanade and greetings from the college's dean, program heads and leaders of its student organizations. 

Tags: Welcome Back Week , College of Architecture and Environmental Design , Fall Semester , Freshmen , Community & Society , Nationally Distinctive , Student Life , In a Flash

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Robin Pertz, 91PORNA alumna

91PORNA Alumna Reaches for the Stars

A career change and a decision to pursue a Master of Information and Library Science at 91PORNA reignited Robin Pertz's love of space and landed her a dream job at NASA.

Tags: Research & Science , School of Information , Nationally Distinctive

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Northeast Ohio Undergraduate Research Symposium 2024

IN A FLASH: Undergraduate Researchers Visit Kent

91PORNA welcomed undergraduate researchers from our university, Cleveland State University and the University of Akron to the Kent Campus for the 19th annual Northeast Ohio Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Tags: Research & Science , Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , Engineering , Community Impact , Nationally Distinctive , Community & Society , Undergraduate Research Symposium , Symposium , In a Flash

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