Fifty-six years after four students were killed and nine were wounded on the campus of ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University, a historian from outside the university brought a rarely heard perspective to one of the most consequential days in American history – May 4, 1970.David Strittmatter, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Ohio Northern University, delivered the fifth annual Jerry M. Lewis May 4 Lecture on May 1 in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. His talk, titled "The Guardsmen Speak: Tragedy and Memory 56 Years Later," drew on his ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Guardsmen Oral History Project, the most comprehensive c...
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ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University at East Liverpool announces that Yvonne Trotter, Ph.D., is the recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award and Larry Froehlich, Ph.D., is receiving the 2026 Friend of ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University at East Liverpool Award. They were recognized at the recent campus awards banquet. Also at the event, the East Liverpool Masonic Temple received the Community Partner Award, recognizing its support of ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì East Liverpool students and community outreach. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì graduates for their professional accomplishments and commu...
Joshua Behler didn't plan to become a computer scientist. Growing up in Northeast Ohio and finishing high school in Pennsylvania, he had been applying to chemical engineering programs when a single programming class changed his direction. He switched fields at the last minute, chose ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì for its strong computer science department and never looked back.Now finishing his Ph.D., with a tenure-track faculty position already secured, Behler's journey from curious undergrad to published researcher illustrates exactly what a graduate program can do for someone willing to invest in it.A Research...
Dean Kahler is often quoted as saying he only had one bad day at ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University.That day was May 4, 1970, when an Ohio National Guardsman's bullet struck Kahler as he stood under a tree watching, from what he thought was a safe distance, a student protest against the escalation of the War in Vietnam. When the National Guard fired on the students, a bullet pierced Kahler’s spine, leaving him paralyzed and wheelchair bound for the rest of his life.In the 56 years since the shootings, Kahler has been an outspoken advocate for disability rights on the Kent Campus and beyond. That advocacy i...
