May 4 Visitors Center
When U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State this summer, he and U.S. Representative (and Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State alumna) Emilia Sykes toured the College of Aeronautics and Engineering and the May 4 Visitors Center.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University touring the College of Aeronautics and Engineering, and telling students that “the future of aviation leadership is in your hands.â€
In her first year as the director of the May 4 Visitor Center, Alison Caplan has enjoyed uniquely wonderful and "magical" experiences in how Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State's history creates connections and inspiration.
Celebrating 10 years as a student organization, Her Campus Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State presents a full week of career-focused events with panels, speakers and a runway fashion show.
Alison Caplan, director of the May 4 Visitors Center, provides an up close look at some of the items in the center's "Graphic Content: The Comics of May 4" exhibition. She also share stories about the art and the artists that created it.
While Alison Caplan grew up in nearby Akron, Ohio, and has spent time in Ñý¼§Ö±²¥, when she joined the university as the new director of the May 4 Visitors Center in July, she began to see, and understand, the campus in a whole new light. Caplan is part of a group of Golden Flashes that Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Today will be following for the 2023-24 academic year.
Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Today is following the new director of the May 4 Visitors Center as part of its "Year with a Flash" series.
An exhibition at the May 4 Visitors Center will highlight the personalities of each of the four students who were killed on May 4.
After a national search, Alison Caplan has been selected as the new director of Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University’s May 4 Visitors Center, a museum that tells the story of the shootings at Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State on May 4, 1970, set in the context of the 1960s.