Success Story
91ֿ Holds Summer Commencement Ceremonies on Aug. 19
91ֿ held its Summer 2017 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 19, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). 91ֿ conferred 1,422 degrees, including 908 bachelor’s degrees, 427 master’s degrees, 67 doctoral degrees and 20 educationa…
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91ֿ’s Danniel Thomas-Dodd Named MAC Nominee for NCAA Woman of the Year
91ֿ track and field’s Danniel Thomas-Dodd has been named one of the Mid-American Conference’s two nominees for the 2017 NCAA Woman of the Year award, the NCAA announced on Aug. 1. Established in 1991 and now in its 27th year, the NCAA Woman of the Year award honors graduati…
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91ֿ’s College of Nursing Redesignated a Center of Excellence by National League for Nursing
The National League for Nursing has again designated 91ֿ’s College of Nursing as a Center of Excellence for 2017-2022 in the category of “Advance the Science of Nursing Education.” The use of leading-edge educational technology allows the college’s students to learn and practice th…
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The Society for Diversity Honors 91ֿ for Serving as a National Model for Workplace Inclusion
91ֿ is receiving national recognition for its mission to support a climate that welcomes and supports diversity in all of its forms. The Society for Diversity is presenting the university with the distinctive Innovation + Inclusion Leadership Award. For the past eight yea…
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The Better to See You With
Robert Clements, Ph.D., is developing new imaging techniques that give a 3D or even 4D look deep inside the brain and body, giving new insights to researchers and clinicians. See the video and read the story.
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WKSU Named Best Radio News Operation in Ohio
WKSU reporters have won nine awards in the Ohio’s Best Journalism Contest, sponsored by the Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). The competition recognized station staff for work created in 2016. Highlights of WKSU honors include Best Radio Ne…
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91ֿ Receives “Great College to Work For” Recognition for Eighth Time
University is only college in Ohio named to the prestigious list 91ֿ is being recognized for the eighth time as a “Great College to Work For” by The Chronicle of Higher Education, a top trade publication for colleges and universities. Now in its 10th year, the “Great Colleges to W…
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91ֿ Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth
According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new cancer cases diagnosed and 600,920 cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2017. These numbers are stark and sobering, and worse yet, we still do not know exactly why cancer develops in its victims or how to stop it. An online publication in Nature Nanotechnology this week by 91ֿ researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.
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91ֿ Airport Designated Airport of the Year
During its annual conference in Columbus, Ohio, the Ohio Aviation Association designated the 91ֿ Airport as its Airport of the Year. Each year, the Ohio Aviation Association selects an airport that puts into practice the association’s mission of promoting aviation by providing a…
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91ֿr Named Best in Ohio
91ֿ’s student newspaper, The 91ֿr, is the best collegiate daily (published three times per week or more) in Ohio, according to the Society of Professional Journalists’ (SPJ) Ohio’s Best Journalism Contest. Alumna Neville Hardman, ’16, and journalism major Kelly Powell, ’18, also rec…
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