University News
91²Ö¿â canines and their human companions came to the Kent Campus for the Dog Days of Summer.
Once again, 91²Ö¿â has been named one of the Best Employers for Women in a nationwide ranking by Forbes and marketing research firm Statista. 91²Ö¿â has been named to the list for the sixth consecutive year, having been included each year since Forbes began publishing the Best Employers for Women list in 2018.
Honors College ranked high when graduate Josh Budd was deciding whether to attend 91²Ö¿â because it offered him a challenging experience through its thesis programs and its education-abroad program. Studying abroad helped him develop more empathy and connection with people of backgrounds different from his own.
For Madelyn Orcutt, an interior designer who works for Richardson Design in Cleveland, the 91²Ö¿â’s personal touch, beautiful campus and proximity to her Canton, Ohio, home influenced her decision to attend the university.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, few disciplines have seen as many changes as psychology. In order to help students address these emerging challenges, 91²Ö¿â’s Department of Psychological Sciences is offering a slate of courses relevant to the changing trends impacting mental health today.
This is the second year in a row that the Flying Flashes have won the Air Race Classic and the Certified Flight Instructor of the year awards. Last year’s flight instructor competition was also won by one of our female students.
As an entrepreneurship major at 91²Ö¿â, Schumann learned operations, production and finance in the classroom and gained on-the-job experience working with an entrepreneur in Cleveland. In 2020, Schumann of Chagrin Falls gained the opportunity to put his 91²Ö¿â education to work when he and his wife Marisa Sergi-Schumann acquired L’uva Bella Winery and Brands, a company that the Sergi family started more than 15 years ago.
91²Ö¿â will celebrate the Flying Flashes, Peyton Turner and Laura Wilson, who defended the team’s title by winning the 2023 Air Race Classic.
The Props and Pistons Festival has been held since 2013 and is planned and funded by Inspire Aviation, a non-profit organization whose goal is promoting aviation and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education. To learn more about the event or to volunteer go to https://www.flyohio.org/.
91²Ö¿â is one of 21 institutions that has advanced to the First Scholars phase of the First Scholars Network. Faculty and staff are hard at work to provide a higher-quality experience for first generation students.