Geography
![The Cleveland skyline at twilight with Terminal Tower glowing pink, as seen from the Scranton Flats, with the Cuyahoga River and Eagle Avenue Bridge in the foreground.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/page/Cleveland-ESDRI.jpeg?VersionId=C66aF8ocXLR3KmBYOk1tW1.fOgouvihZ&h=9a166264&itok=eySuSmu-)
The Kent State University College of Arts and Sciences congratulates James A. Tyner, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Geography and Director of the Institute for the Study and Prevention of Violence, who is a 2021 recipient of ‘Distinguished Scholarship Honors’ from the American Association of Geographers (AAG).
They remember the sights and sounds of helicopters and trucks as the Ohio National Guard moved into their small college town. They remember the smell of tear gas. They remember the chants of the protesters against the Vietnam War and invasion of Cambodia. They remember the panic and fear that ensued immediately after they heard that four students were killed and nine wounded when the guardsmen opened fire on campus. On May 4, 1970, many people in Kent experienced a traumatic event that they will never forget.
![An irrigation canal runs through a Cambodian rice field](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/RiceTyner_Canal1.jpg?VersionId=nhiZOXL7x2DCLvv_.qgnpQlFTfjR05wr&h=19ad3fdd&itok=O5bp6Kld)
![Kent State University Assistant Professor Jennifer Mapes, Ph.D., poses beside a map kiosk in downtown Kent that she helped to create.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/Mapes.jpg?VersionId=lklDtq34oTEfNnX9URK3xWrheQpY88_A&h=ec98a0f6&itok=MPNbp_eG)
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