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While ����ֱ�� State University prides itself on providing a diverse and inclusive community for students, faculty and staff, Main Street ����ֱ�� is showing how the city of ����ֱ�� also embraces the same sentiment.

Rachel Pike-Lee and Zachary Wehr, two veterans share their stories about how the Center for Adult and Veteran Services has helped them transition to university life and has supported them along the way.

Fans of the ����ֱ�� State University Golden Flashes looking to follow their favorite players on the court will have to look for their jersey numbers and not their names at a special men’s basketball game later this week. Players will be wearing student-designed uniforms with the space on the back that is usually designated for their names instead displaying the phrase “1 in 59” to promote autism awareness and education.

����ֱ�� State University invites educators of students in grades 6-12 to apply by March 1 for its Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop, “Making Meaning of May 4: The 1970 ����ֱ�� State Shootings in U.S. History.” Co-directors Laura Davis, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of English and former founding director of the May 4 Visitors Center, and Todd Hawley, Ph.D., associate professor of social studies teacher education, were awarded $170,000 in funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create this workshop.

Fans of the ����ֱ�� State University Golden Flashes looking to follow their favorite players on the court will have to look for their jersey numbers and not their names at a special men’s basketball game later this week. Players will be wearing student-designed uniforms with the space on the back that is usually designated for their names instead displaying the phrase “1 in 59” to promote autism awareness and education.

It was a defining moment for 35-year-old N.J. Akbar, Ph.D., on the day the Detroit native turned Akron resident was publicly recognized for earning his doctoral degree. A moment that almost didn’t happen, he tells WKYC.

The David and Janet Dix Lecture in Media Ethics returns for its second year and will host National Public Radio's Eric Deggans. He will be delivering a talk entitled "Building Bridges, Not Walls: Decoding Media's Confusing Coverage of Race, Gender, Culture and Politics," at 7:00 p.m. on the evening of Tuesday, February 11, 2020.

Rachael Lang, Whiteaker Middle School eighth-grader, was one of the three winners of the national Call for Poems about Peace and Conflict Resolution contest at ����ֱ�� State’s Wick Poetry Center to commemorate the 50th anniversary of May 4, 1970.

Joseph Napier co-founded a local non-profit organization called the Youngstown Creative Collective that helps raise awareness for small businesses in the inner city of Youngstown.

The 2019 Ohio Latino Education Summit broke the record for registration numbers when ����ֱ�� State University hosted it for the first time in November. The Ohio Latino Education Summit is an annual event that brings students, educators and congressional leaders together to discuss issues that impact the education of Latinos in Ohio.