Student Success
91ֿ’s Lurken, Starkey Receive MAC’s Biggest Postseason Awards
The Mid-American Conference (MAC) announced its women’s basketball postseason awards on March 7, with 91ֿ senior guard Larissa Lurken being named Player of the Year and head coach Todd Starkey being named Coach of the Year. Jordan Korinek also was honored as she was named to the…
59 Student-Athletes Achieved Perfect GPAs in Fall and Spring 2016
91ֿ’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics held its third annual 4.0 GPA Student-Athlete Breakfast on Feb. 2 in the Kent Student Center Ballroom Balcony. “We are tremendously proud of and inspired by the success of our student-athletes who demonstrate time and time again that…
91ֿ Holds Fall Commencement Ceremonies on Dec. 16 and 17
91ֿ will hold its Fall Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Friday, Dec. 16, and Saturday, Dec. 17, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). 91ֿ will confer 2,544 degrees, including 1,773 bachelor’s degrees, 715 master’s degrees, 55 d…
Student Journalist Traverses Nation to Document Voting Rights Challenges
91ֿ journalism major Jimmy Miller recently spent 10 weeks traveling the country examining the political views of white, working-class Americans, a group now credited as a difference maker in the successful campaign of President-elect Donald Trump. The project was part …
91ֿ Men’s Basketball Displays Unity During National Anthem
The 91ֿ's men's basketball student-athletes select fans of all races to stand with them in solidarity during the national anthem.
Senior Architecture and Interior Design Majors Find Creative Expression in Florence
During International Education Week, which runs from Nov. 14-18, 91ֿ’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design will showcase the creative projects of seniors Zach Barber, Ben Brannan and several others who studied abroad in Florence, Italy, during the p…
On-Campus Garden Helps Provide Vegetables to Local Students in Need
Sarah Burns, a second-year master’s student in the Nutrition and Dietetics program at 91ֿ, 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…
91ֿ Student Earns National Attention for Research about Youth Education in the Democratic Republic of Congo
91ֿ global communication studies graduate student Daniel Socha’s research on a non-profit organization’s 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’s 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’s Campus Consortium educational initiative. One of the stories Socha developed for his reporting assignment was published on .
“It was awesome to see my article on NPR’s website,” Socha said. “To see my words and to know that I did that – I wrote that – was amazing.”
91ֿ Students Form New Autism Student Organization
Group created by students with autism spectrum disorder to highlight diversity, not disability 91ֿ is once again starting a new fall semester with an abundance of enthusiastic students, but one thing is strikingly different: 91ֿ has a new student organization on campus th…