This year’s return of in-person events to commemorate the Kent State shootings will include the dedication of bronze markers placed on the spots where nine students were wounded by the Ohio National Guard during a student anti-war protest on May 4, 1970. Markers designating the locations of each of the four students killed – Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder – were installed in 1999. Since that time, a small group had been working to have similar markers placed for the wounded students: Alan Canfora, John Cleary, Thomas Grace, Dean Kahler, Joseph Lewis, Don...
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This is a great question and an often-overlooked matter. Your life insurance beneficiary, as declared on the form you provided to the Benefits office, is the person who will receive the funds from your life insurance policy should you decease. Quite often, an employee may want to reassess their primary, and/or secondary beneficiary designee(s) over time. It’s a good idea to keep your beneficiary information current as you make other financial security decisions. Fortunately, updating your beneficiary is easy. You can download a new beneficiary designation form. Once completed and signed, yo...
David Hacker Recognized for his Work Engaging Students in Undergraduate Research Dr. Hacker is being recognized for his work engaging students in undergraduate research. He has mentored over 40 undergraduate independent studies and honors students, in addition to directing KSU’s Geology Summer Field camp where students travel to South Dakota, Wyoming and Idaho for a six-credit experiential learning course. His dedication for engaging students in research is also evident in his collaboration with students in submissions and presentations at conferences, journal articles, geologic m...
Dr Molly Merryman has been awarded funding from the US Embassy in London for a project entitled: Resilience During the Pandemic: LGBQT+ Stories. The project will include a traveling exhibition and lecture series celebrating the launch of the Queer Britain national LGBTQ museum. The exhibition will tour England, Northern Ireland and Wales, and features video-based oral histories from the Queer Pandemic oral history project, that explores experiences of LGBTQ+ people living in the time of COVID. ...
Update: Jon Meacham delivered his address to a sold-out audience on May 4 at the Kent Student Center. View Meacham's speech. Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham, whose knowledge of politics, history, religion and current affairs makes him one of America’s most prominent public intellectuals, will appear the evening of May 4 for Kent State University’s Presidential Speaker Series. Meacham will bring his unique perspective and provide historical context to the issues and events impacting our daily lives when he speaks about civil ...
How long does a single traumatic event affect a person’s mental health? Kent State University graduate student Emily Rabinowitz’s research on this topic was recently published in the peer-reviewed Stress & Health: Journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress. Her paper “The 50th Anniversary of May 4, 1970, Is Associated With Elevations of Distress but No Increase in Mental Health Symptoms” was published in the November 2021 issue. Rabinowitz is a third-year clinical psychology student in the College of Arts and Sciences whose research focuses on posttraumati...
In the midst of COVID-19, one Kent State student shares her internship experience working at the Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital. Nichole Sullenberger (She/Her) is a current senior Honors College student in the Nursing program at Kent State. Through her program, she has the opportunity to work hands-on in her field of study and was able to fulfill that experience this past summer of 2021. From mid-May to late July in 2021, Nichole got to experience life in an operating room (OR) at Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital in Avon, Ohio. Working in an OR allowed her a new experience in the field, e...