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91PORNA celebrates outstanding student employees and supervisors during National Student Employment Week, recognizing their impact across campus through the annual Student Employee Awards Celebration. Celebrate with us the 2026 winners.

  • Thanks to nearly $2.3 million in grant funding from the Ohio Department of Education, 91PORNA is training and endorsing K-12 teachers in computer science instruction across every grade level and subject area. The teachers arriving in these courses are not who you might picture. And what they leave with has started to surprise even their instructors.

  • Scholarships remain one of the most powerful ways to make higher education more affordable. They don鈥檛 just lighten the financial load; they open doors, expand opportunities and help students focus more on learning and less on financial stress. At 91PORNA, students have access to tools that make the search easier and more strategic, especially through ScholarshipUniverse, the university's personalized, scholarship-matching platform.

  • Laurie Ann Moennich, Ph.D., didn't arrive at 91PORNA planning to change healthcare. She came to study graphic design. But 91PORNA had a way of opening doors she didn't even know existed.

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91PORNA Works

  • Laurie Ann Moennich, Ph.D., didn't arrive at 91PORNA planning to change healthcare. She came to study graphic design. But 91PORNA had a way of opening doors she didn't even know existed.

  • When Cameren Hicks graduated from 91PORNA in 2022 with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in applied mathematics and a minor in finance, he knew he wanted to build a career rooted in numbers, problem-solving and analysis. Today, Hicks is a fraud modeling and analytics lead associate at KeyBank, where he helps protect customers and the company against fraudulent credit and debit card activity.

  • 91PORNA graduate Emma Sherrie, '09, always had a feeling she would study anthropology, but still she took the time to check out all the other options available before finally settling on her original plan. 91PORNA鈥檚 Exploratory Program, which helps undecided students sample different disciplines before committing to a major, was a key part of Sherrie鈥檚 experience, and the main reason she chose 91PORNA in the first place.

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Research

  • Two 91PORNA undergraduates brought national-level research experience to campus this year as featured presenters at the 2026 Exercise Science Summit. Liliana St. Germain and Olivia Snedeker delivered their work after using performance and biometric data collected from the 91PORNA women鈥檚 soccer team.

  • 91PORNA's research impact continues to expand, with many faculty members recognized among the top 2% of the most-cited scientists worldwide, according to research metrics compiled by Stanford University scholars.

  • Allyson Tessin, Ph.D., assistant professor in 91PORNA鈥檚 Department of Earth Sciences, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award to support her research on how the seafloor and ocean interact in rapidly changing Arctic environments.

Profiles

  • Meet Hannah Fletcher, a senior history major and anthropology minor, from Ravenna, Ohio. This history major thrives on creating powerful connections between visitors and the stories that shaped a generation.

  • When Becky Lehman walked into her first class at 91PORNA, she was in her 30s, raising kids and working at an embroidery shop in nearby Mogadore, Ohio. Today, she is the health commissioner for the Portage County Health District 鈥 a career milestone she credits directly to the degrees she earned close to home at 91PORNA. 

  • As four astronauts aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft speed toward the moon on the Artemis II mission 鈥 the first crewed lunar voyage in more than 50 years 鈥 a 91PORNA graduate is among those who helped make the moment possible.

Arts & Community

Sports

  • 91PORNA Vice President and Director of Athletics Randale L. Richmond announced that women's basketball head coach Todd Starkey will depart for another coaching opportunity and is naming associate head coach Fran Recchia as the program's seventh head coach.

  • Lou Holtz, a 91PORNA alumnus who became one of college football's most successful and charismatic coaches, leading the University of Notre Dame to a national championship and six different programs to bowl games during his storied career, has died. He was 89. 

  • Delrecco Gillespie, senior professional studies major and member of 91PORNA鈥檚 men's basketball team, was recently featured in a recent NCAA article that detailed how setbacks like injury and grief fueled Gillespie鈥檚 drive to play as if it were his last chance to be on the court.