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My name is Tristan Magel. I am an aerospace engineering student with a minor in applied mathematics and I am in the Honors College. I am on track to graduate in 2026. Above all else, one factor drove me to choose �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� State: aerospace engineering. I have dreamt of being an aerospace engineer since elementary school, and I had a solid idea of what I wanted to be before I could even spell the words out. As a result, my college search was heavily focused on schools that directly offered the aerospace engineering major, of which there were surprisingly few. After factoring in location an...

   Kyle Jackson, a member of �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� State's Class of 2024 and former star infielder for the Golden Flashes baseball team, is now entertaining legions of fans as a player for the Savannah Bananas exhibition baseball team. Based in Savannah, Georgia, the team is described as "the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball." Their games famously include trick plays, choreographed dances and high-energy fan engagement. Jackson, who kept his Golden Flashes jersey number four when he joined the Bananas, played as an infielder for �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� State for four seasons. He helped organize the Savannah B...

Join us on the �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� State ToddCast as President Todd Diacon revisits a conversation with Professor Emeritus Jerry M. Lewis, Ph.D.On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on students protesting the escalation of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, killing four and wounding nine others. Many historians credit the shootings, which brought the war home to Middle America, with changing the course of America’s involvement in the war.  Lewis was on duty as a faculty marshal in the Prentice Hall parking lot, where he witnessed students fall from gunshot wounds. In the years fol...

“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” ~Bill Bradley, former NBA player, and U.S. senator . �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� State Geauga alumna Brittany Sustar, MBA, BSN, RN-BC (Class of 2010), has been selected to receive this year's Distinguished Alumni Award, the most prestigious honor given by this regional campus. It honors highly exceptional alumni who have made outstanding contributions in their field and have demonstrated extraordinary service to the university and the community. This award will be presented at the 2025 commencement ceremony on May 9, 2025.Brittany is t...