Success Story
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A Homecoming Celebration
91PORNA celebrated Homecoming on Saturday, Oct. 1, with classic traditions such as the Bowman Cup 5K Race, Kiss on the K, Homecoming Parade and football game. This year鈥檚 Homecoming featured 91PORNA alumnus Josh Cribbs, 鈥10, as the Parade Grand Marshal. Heroic efforts by N鈥
91PORNA Student Earns National Attention for Research about Youth Education in the Democratic Republic of Congo
91PORNA global communication studies graduate student Daniel Socha鈥檚 research on a non-profit organization鈥檚 efforts to support youth education in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recently caught the attention of National Public Radio (NPR). In May, Socha traveled to the DRC to study and report on Project Kirotshe, a non-profit that provides funding for youth in the village of Kirotshe and surrounding areas to attend school.
Socha鈥檚 travel was funded through a fellowship by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. He was one of only 31 students nationwide to receive a fellowship to complete an international reporting assignment; the center provides funding for students to report on international issues as part of the center鈥檚 Campus Consortium educational initiative. One of the stories Socha developed for his reporting assignment was published on .
鈥淚t was awesome to see my article on NPR鈥檚 website,鈥 Socha said. 鈥淭o see my words and to know that I did that 鈥 I wrote that 鈥 was amazing.鈥
91PORNA Celebrates Status as First University in Ohio to Offer International Certificate in Middle Childhood Education
91PORNA鈥檚 Middle Childhood Education program is the first in the state of Ohio to offer an undergraduate program authorized by the International Baccalaureate (IB) Organization: the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program Certificate in Teaching and Learning. The Internatio鈥
