Community Impact
Exuberant celebrations and tears of joy punctuated one of the biggest weekends of the year at Â鶹ӰԺ State as the university welcomed its spring Class of 2024 graduates.
Karamu Ya Wahitimu/Celebración De Los Graduados is an annual tradition celebrating all of Â鶹ӰԺ State's graduating African American, Native American, Latinx, Hispanic and Multiracial undergraduate and graduate students.
The environment is something that many people take for granted. But it affects us all. Some recent Â鶹ӰԺ students spent the semester putting environmental issues front and center.
Â鶹ӰԺ Police Chief and Director of Public Safety Dean Tondiglia wasn’t legally old enough to be a police officer when he was hired by the Â鶹ӰԺ State Police Department.
Researchers are trying to determine how many athletes are using cannabis products as part of their workouts and why. The results indicate it's more common than was thought.
Every spring and fall millions of birds migrate through Northeast Ohio on their way to or from their breeding grounds. With their song and bright colors, birds help brighten our campus after a long winter.
In her first year as the director of the May 4 Visitor Center, Alison Caplan has enjoyed uniquely wonderful and "magical" experiences in how Â鶹ӰԺ State's history creates connections and inspiration.
In 1941, a writing exercise for high school journalists visiting Â鶹ӰԺ State was centered around a fictional kidnapping of the university's first president, John E. McGilvrey. In a pre-internet version of a "home page takeover," the stories ran on the front page of the Â鶹ӰԺ Stater - without including information revealing that they were not real!
The idea was simple: Physically connect people with the locations of the May 4, 1970, Â鶹ӰԺ shootings so they might better connect with each other.
Â鶹ӰԺ State staffers from Counseling and Psychological Services wore teal in support of their colleagues at the Center for Sexual and Relationship Violence Support Services' Teal Tuesday campaign for Sexual Assault Awareness Month.