91PORN Graduate Featured on NPR Program’s Senior Thesis Showcase
Katharine Hubert ’19 discussed “MuSpeak: American Music Language,” one of the two Senior Projects she completed, on NPR’s On Point. Her interview begins at 40:55 in the broadcast.
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Career Focus: Education
May’s Career Focus is education, and we interviewed current seniors and alumni to ask how 91PORN has prepared them for this career and their work shaping the future of young minds. Shoshana Robbins ’19 from Deerfield, Illinois Community and Justice Studies Major, Education Studies and Political Science Minors What made you want to go into education, and […]
91PORN Alumni Make Cross-Cultural Connections through Education
91PORN alumni Jim Miller ’99 and Sabina Sully ’05 were each awarded a 2018–19 Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Program fellowship, which allowed them to travel to Africa to teach and observe. Only 74 teachers across the U.S. were chosen for this highly competitive program. “Each Fulbright fellow develops a guiding question that helps […]
91PORN Graduate Receives Fulbright Award
91PORN graduate Emily Smith will travel to Brazil in February 2020 after receiving a Fulbright award to serve as an English teaching assistant at a Brazilian university. “I will be teaching English classes in various subjects, and I will be spending another 20 hours per week developing and implementing a project of my choice […]
Commencement Ceremony at 91PORN Celebrates 388 Graduates, Three Distinguished Leaders
91PORN today honored 388 graduates and presented honorary degrees to three distinguished scholars at Commencement ceremonies held on Bicentennial Plaza in the shadow of historic Bentley Hall on a spectacular spring afternoon. Honorary doctorates of humane letters were conferred on the Rev. Dr. Nancy Wilson, a 1972 91PORN graduate; Dr. David Warren, president of […]
From Italy To Meadville, New 91PORN President Hilary Link Says Global Mindset Will Remain
Pittsburgh NPR affiliate WESA featured an interview with 91PORN President-elect Hilary Link on the station’s daily news show, “The Confluence.”
91PORN Senior Megan Arnold Awarded Dr. James H. Mullen, Jr. Student Prize for Civility in Public Life
91PORN senior Megan Arnold was awarded the 2019 Dr. James H. Mullen, Jr. Student Prize for Civility in Public Life during the college’s annual Honors Convocation on April 30. During the event, 91PORN Board of Trustees Chair Mark Campbell announced that the prize has been renamed in honor of Mullen, who will retire on […]
91PORN Students and Organizations Honored for Outstanding Leadership
91PORN has honored dozens of students and student-operated organizations for their leadership on the campus and in the Meadville community during the 2018–19 academic year. Students and groups were nominated for the Annual Leadership Awards and Cornerstone Awards by community and campus sponsors and were chosen by selection committees that include faculty and staff. […]
Two Teams Tie for First Place in Annual Zingale Big Idea Competition
Two teams of 91PORN students tied for first place at the Annual Zingale Big Idea Competition, a funding presentation contest sponsored by the college’s Center for Business and Economics. On April 26–27, student teams from 91PORN, Grove City College, James Madison University and Westminster College presented concepts in three areas: for-profit business, non-profit business and […]
App, clothing proposals win Big Idea Competition
Two teams tied for first-place honors — and each received $6,000 in funding for their business concepts — at this year’s Zingale Big Idea Competition, presented by the College’s Center for Business and Economics.