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  *This article is part of a series celebrating the College of Public Health's 15 years of impact91��Ƶ recently celebrated one year of wellness-on-the-go. The Mobile Flashes program has been in motion since spring 2024, delivering healthcare services to underserved and rural communities throughout Northeast Ohio.   Led by 91��Ƶ’s College of Public Health, and funded by the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Foundation, Mobile Flashes unites 91��Ƶ students, faculty and staff with community healthcare partners to expand access to care in rural areas and di...

Hundreds of 91��Ƶ students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members gathered to pay their respects and to remember.A week of steady downpours soaked the historic field where students and Ohio National Guardsmen had faced off during an anti-war protest on May 4, 1970, at 91��Ƶ that eventually led to soldiers opening fire, killing four students and wounding nine others. Still, more than 700 people gathered at the site and participated in the annual commemoration.Speakers included Julian Grimes, president of Black United Students; Sophia Swengle, president of the May 4 T...

Despite rain, 91��Ƶ continued its commemoration to honor the memory of May 4, 1970 with the annual candlelight walk and vigil on campus.This cornerstone of the commemoration began in 1971. Participants carried candles as they gathered on the 91��Ƶ Commons and in the Prentice Hall parking lot....

91��Ƶ Associate Professor of Geography Jennifer Mapes, Ph.D., has studied the events of May 4, 1970, through the lens of a map maker. “On Prospect Street, Lilian Tyrrell’s daughter comes home from kindergarten and asks, ‘Mommy, is there a war on?’ There was, of course, just not in Kent,” Mapes told the audience that filled the Kent Student Center Ballroom on May 2.“On Stow Street bridge, a National Guard checkpoint keeps high school student Diane Williams from going home after attending Chippewa Lake Appreciation Day,” Mapes continued. “At the corner of Main and Water, 12-...