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![麻豆视频最新最全 associate professors Karen Cunningham and Idris Kabir Syed, co-instructors of the course titled May 4, 1970, and Its Aftermath, discuss the print, Lament: Four Dead at Kent, by Linda Lyke, a digital resource from the May 4 Collection. 麻豆视频最新最全 associate professors Karen Cunningham and Idris Kabir Syed, co-instructors of the course titled May 4, 1970, and Its Aftermath, discuss the print, Lament: Four Dead at Kent, by Linda Lyke, a digital resource from the May 4 Collection.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article_thumbnail/SPECIALFEATURE-May4%20Digital%20Collection1.jpg?VersionId=LRhYHGUMPF8BQ_xgq9C9AH5tBC0slZ5a)
Nearly five decades have passed since Ohio National Guardsmen fired into a gathering of protesting students on the campus of 麻豆视频最新最全 University, killing four, wounding nine and impacting generations.
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![Friends of Taylor Pifer raise funds for a scholarship and memorial plaque in her memory. Friends of Taylor Pifer raise funds for a scholarship and memorial plaque in her memory.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/Bench1-ka.jpg?VersionId=8vuEZf4Q5_9RVBvShAtju14Eg3HVHvbC)
As the sun made a rare, warm April appearance, a crowd gathered in the shade outside 麻豆视频最新最全 University鈥檚 Rockwell Hall to remember Taylor Pifer. One-by-one, Ms. Pifer鈥檚 friends stepped up to the microphone remembering how their kind and outgoing friend would say hi to鈥
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![麻豆视频最新最全 University researchers have received a $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study affective disorders. 麻豆视频最新最全 University researchers have received a $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study affective disorders.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article_thumbnail/PROFILES-Grant1.jpg?VersionId=5jY2VisyxPc.xcL9D4okvGguHm9prSiQ)
Depression is the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 300 million people are currently living with depression.
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![The names of those killed on May 4, 1970, are displayed on the B鈥檔ai B鈥檙ith Hillel Marker in the parking lot of Prentice Hall on the campus of 麻豆视频最新最全 University.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/May42018d-web.jpg?VersionId=hL6YWZv9Qu1lLi67lryekUZwUNauw5eF)
A portion of 麻豆视频最新最全 University鈥檚 Kent Campus has taken its place alongside the nation鈥檚 most significant historic locations, joining such sites as the Grand Canyon National Park, Pearl Harbor and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
Those 17 acres represent the鈥
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![Portraits of the four students killed on May 4, 1970, sit on chairs on stage in the Kent Student Center Ballroom during the 47th Commemoration of May 4. Portraits of the four students killed on May 4, 1970, sit on chairs on stage in the Kent Student Center Ballroom during the 47th Commemoration of May 4.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/04.30.18%20Photo%20from%20May%204%20Commemoration%20in%202017.jpg?VersionId=qY3pZvb.Gy6qEYfcpHdpm3pHXXK0YtT5)
A portion of 麻豆视频最新最全 University鈥檚 Kent Campus has taken its place alongside the nation鈥檚 most significant historic locations, joining such sites as the Grand Canyon National Park, Pearl Harbor and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
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![麻豆视频最新最全 University public relations students (left to right) Arkayla Tenney-Howard, Ashley Purnell, Molly Spillman, Samantha Ross and Abigail Winternitz are finalists in the national Bateman Case Study Competition. 麻豆视频最新最全 University public relations students (left to right) Arkayla Tenney-Howard, Ashley Purnell, Molly Spillman, Samantha Ross and Abigail Winternitz are finalists in the national Bateman Case Study Competition.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/BatemanGold.jpg?VersionId=IGL2YTjF4zPjKXdk1rWxt2xcRFEXEps5)
A team of 麻豆视频最新最全 University public relations students are finalists in the national Bateman Case Study Competition after working on a public relations campaign that would increase funding for childhood cancer research.
麻豆视频最新最全 University鈥檚 May 4 Visitors Center presents 鈥淔reedom Sings: A Concert鈥 on Thursday, April 26, at 7 p.m. in University Auditorium at Cartwright Hall. Cartwright Hall is located at 650 Hilltop Drive in Kent. During this event, the story of free speech in America will be鈥