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Blog Banner Tristan Magel

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 Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ 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...

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State alumnus Kyle Jackson of the Savannah Bananas

   Kyle Jackson, a member of Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ 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 Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State for four seasons. He helped organize the Savannah B...

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Professor Emeritus Jerry M. Lewis, Ph.D., a faculty marshal on May 4, 1970, addresses attendees of the inaugural Jerry M. Lewis May 4 Lecture Series held in the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ Student Center Ballroom.

Join us on the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ 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...

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