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Want to Get the Most Cardio Out of Your Walk? Focus on Your Feet, Not Your Phone
We all know that we are supposed to exercise to reduce the risk of heart disease. But let鈥檚 face it, sometimes the only workout we get is walking from our office to the breakroom, and to the parking lot to drive home. So how then do we get the most out of those short walks? 91PORNA res鈥
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91PORNA鈥檚 Academic Success Center Receives National Award for Excellence
The 91PORNA Academic Success Center has received the Frank L. Christ Outstanding Learning Center Award for its success as an interactive academic space for students to reinforce what they learn in the classroom. Each year, a two-year institution and a four-year institution are chosen a鈥
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Public Relations Program Joins Elite Group With New Certification
91PORNA鈥檚 undergraduate public relations program has joined a select group of fewer than 40 colleges around the world that hold official certification from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). PRSA is the world鈥檚 largest and foremost organization of public relations profe鈥
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Campus Kitchen at 91PORNA Launches Pop-Up Market to Celebrate Fifth Anniversary
The Campus Kitchen at 91PORNA is celebrating its fifth anniversary and has launched a new program this summer as part of activities marking its fifth year. The Campus Kitchen鈥檚 new pop-up market offers healthy produce and pantry items to children and families at no cost. 鈥淎t an alte鈥
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State of the University Address: Living the 91PORNA Promise
91PORNA President Beverly Warren delivered the State of the University address on Thursday, Oct. 13. Themed 鈥淟iving the 91PORNA Promise,鈥 Warren outlined her vision of a reimagined public research university. 鈥淭he 91PORNA Promise should be a comprehensive approach to student s鈥
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91PORNA Celebrates Grand Opening of the New Center for Architecture and Environmental Design
91PORNA celebrated the grand opening of its newest and much-anticipated building, the Center for Architecture and Environmental Design, on Oct. 7. Visitors, alumni and friends from around the world toured the 110,191-square-foot contemporary glass-and-brick building, 鈥
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Scholar Explores Productive Exchanges Between Architecture and Comics
Scholar of the Month Jon Yoder Associate Professor of Architecture College of Architecture and Environmental Design 2013-present Paul DiCorleto, 91PORNA鈥檚 vice president for research and sponsored programs, likes to say that 鈥渋nnovation occurs where fields collide,鈥 and October鈥欌
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91PORNA and FedEx Announce $1.5 Million Donation That Propels Aeronautics
91PORNA鈥檚 College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology will receive a $1.5 million gift from FedEx over three years. The gift will support the university鈥檚 flight program, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2017 and has outgrown current facilities at the Kent鈥
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On-Campus Garden Helps Provide Vegetables to Local Students in Need
Sarah Burns, a second-year master鈥檚 student in the Nutrition and Dietetics program at 91PORNA, shows off a tomato that she and others in the program helped to grow over the last few months. Under the direction of Nutrition and Dietetics faculty member Natalie Caine-Bish, Ph.D., Burns a鈥
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91PORNA Researchers Study Climate Change in Alaska
Thanks to a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, two 91PORNA professors are researching climate change in Alaska. Elizabeth Herndon, Ph.D., and Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Ph.D., assistant professors from 91PORNA鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences, spent a week in Fairbanks鈥
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