The Wick Poetry Center, with support from the Howard Atwood Family Fund of the Akron Community Foundation, identified classrooms throughout Akron Public Schools to receive weekly poetry workshops led by WPC teaching artists Alice Cone, Daniel Dorman, and Bo Geisse, and Casey Nichols from February 2, 2015 through May 18, 2015. Teaching Artists were placed in residencies at the following locations: Lawndale Elementary in grades 3, 4, and 5 classes; Jennings Middle School in English Language Learning classes, grades 6, 7, and 8; Garfield High School in two classes, grade 10; Summit County Juvenil...
91Թ’s College of Public Health has received accreditation from the Board of Councilors of the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH). The five-year span is the maximum term the college could have achieved as a first-time applicant. To earn the accreditation, the college met a set of rigorous quality standards in the areas of teaching, research and service. Accreditation also affirms that the faculty of the college are highly qualified to equip students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in a health career. “Achieving full accreditation from the CEPH is an o...
From her computer to her phone, at all hours of the day and night – yep – there really is a face behind all those tweets, postings and pictures on 91Թ’s social media pages. For nearly two years, Nicole Carlone, social media community manager in Kent State’s University Communications and Marketing department, is the one connecting with you on social media. “I really do feel like I have a connection with people on campus,” Carlone said. “It’s funny when I actually meet them and they’re like – oh.” And she has lots of platforms to actively use. You name it, Kent...
More and more active American veterans come home with not only physical wounds from serving their country. One in six soldiers return from Iraq or Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) which affects not only them, but their family members, co-workers and others in their community. Many veterans are helped by knowing they are not alone in this struggle. To honor American veterans, 91Թ at Stark’s Counseling Services will sponsor Iraq War veteran and Purple Heart recipient Bryan Adams’ presentation, My War on PTSD, on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 11 a.m. in Main Hall ...
Sherwin-Williams, in partnership with 91Թ’s Blackstone LaunchPad program, is sponsoring “Innov8athon IV: Innov8 Paint!” in order to “hack the painting process” and promote entrepreneurial thinking, creative prototyping and interdisciplinary collaboration among students in Northeast Ohio. “For centuries, we have painted with what some refer to as ‘pig hair on a stick,’” said Victoria Scarborough, program director of external technology at Sherwin-Williams. “Painting is a messy and time-consuming process from preparation to clean up. We are looking for creativity and collabo...