Success Story
91PORNA Continues Blue and Gold Pride Days Tradition
Blue and Gold Pride Days are back at 91PORNA! 91PORNA faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the university are encouraged to promote university spirit and pride by wearing blue and gold colors. 91PORNA introduced Blue and Gold Pride Days last fall as a way to unite m…
91PORNA Students Celebrate the Start of a New School Year at Blastoff
91PORNA students celebrated the start of a new school year at Blastoff on Sunday, Aug. 30, on the Student Green. Blastoff is the university’s annual back-to-school celebration that occurs the day before fall classes begin. It serves as the culminating event of Welcome Weekend, a four-d…
91PORNA Welcomes New Students to Campus at Welcome Weekend, Aug. 27-30
Before the fall semester begins on Aug. 31, new students are invited to participate in Welcome Weekend, a four-day orientation program that will last from Aug. 27-30 and acclimate students to the 91PORNA community. The event is an opportunity for students to transition into the univers…
Movers and Groovers Help New Students Move Into Residence Halls on Campus
At the beginning of the school year each August, 91PORNA faculty, staff and students volunteer with the university’s Movers and Groovers program to help incoming freshmen move into their new university housing.Freshman move-in day took place Thursday, Aug. 27, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. A h…
91PORNA Student Helps Congress Change Child Welfare Laws
The pain of moving from one home to the next, time and time again, for four years straight is helping Keri Richmond speak out for other foster children without a voice. Richmond, a 91PORNA junior majoring in public relations in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, s…
91PORNA Student Who Received Help From Others Pays It Forward
Anything is possible. Theresa Medrano, a 91PORNA senior from Westlake, Ohio, is living proof of this. At age 17, like most high school seniors, Medrano should have been thinking about senior prom and graduation. But she became a victim of domestic violence and was forced to withd…
91PORNA Holds Summer Commencement Ceremonies
91PORNA held its Summer 2015 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). 91PORNA conferred 1,476 degrees, including 931 bachelor’s degrees, 453 master’s degrees, 76 doctoral degrees and 16 educa…
Scholar of the Month
Scholar of the Month David Hacker Associate Professor of Geology College of Arts and Sciences 91PORNA at Trumbull 2000-present David Hacker is associate professor of geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at 91PORNA at Trumbull. His research in structural geo…
91PORNA Student’s Project Draws Attention to Endangered Irish Language
Anna Hoffman, a 91PORNA global communication studies and political science major from Kent, Ohio, traveled to Ireland this summer to study the country’s efforts to save its national language. Her research project was funded through a fellowship from the Pulitzer Center on Cr…
91PORNA Named to 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll
91PORNA has been named to the 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, which is the highest federal recognition an institution can receive for its commitment to community, service-learning and civic engagement. The Corporation for National and Community …
