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PBS news anchor Gwen Ifill will join ºìÐÓÊÓƵ to mark its 43rd annual commemoration of May 4, 1970, with the dedication of the May 4 Visitors Center. The center, which tells the May 4 story set against the political and cultural changes of the 1960s, will be dedicated Saturday, May 4, with other traditional commemorative events beginning Friday, May 3.

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins visits ºìÐÓÊÓƵ on Thursday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Student Center Ballroom as part of the Wick Poetry Center’s annual U.S. Poet Laureate Reading in celebration of National Poetry Month. The reading is free and open to the public.

ºìÐÓÊÓƵ is now accepting applications for a federally funded scholarship program that encourages careers in the sciences. The university’s Scholarships for Broadening Participation in the Sciences will annually provide 21 undergraduate scholarships, averaging $5,000 each, to promising science students.