School news: ACTC releases Dean's List
ASHLAND, Ky. — Ashland Community and Technical College has named 208 students to the Dean's List for the fall 2024 semester. To be eligible for the dean's list, a student must complete at least 12 semester credits (of 100 level courses or above) or more for the semester and earn at least a 3.5 GPA for the semester.
The students from Lawrence County on the Dean's List include:
Chesapeake: Carolyn Nichole Griffin
Ironton: Briley Bond, Gwendalyn Isabella Collins, Colin Jay Conley, Cheyenne Hall, Evan Matthew Koerper, Aimee Mcgraw and Trevor Allan Stephens.
Lucasville: Kyle Russell.
Pedro: Hope Maria Lynn Easterling.
South Point: Samuel Scott Freeman, Allison Williams and Kiara Dessiree Wilson.
Willow Wood: Johnathan Michael Whitt.
ACTC release's President's List
ASHLAND, Ky. —Ashland Community and Technical College has named 257 students to the President's List for the fall 2024 semester. To be eligible for the president's list, a student must earn a perfect 4.0 grade point average and successfully complete at least 12 KCTCS semester credits of course work numbered 100 or above.
The students from Lawrence County on the President's List include:
Chesapeake: Emma Grace Ginn, Carolina Isabel Jaime, and Dalton Nida.
Ironton: Samarah Kay Bartram, Dylan Mikai Griffith, Richard Earl Kelley, Brittany Dianne Lawrence and Cayden Mcgraw.
Kitts Hill: Whyatt Edward Lee Mannon.
Proctorville: Aydan William Taylor.
South Point: Tiffany Leann Tibbs.
South Point student stars in production of "Radium Girls"
CEDARVILLE —Cedarville University's theatre department will bring "Radium Girls," a historical drama written by D.W. Gregory, to the stage today and Sunday.
Anna Brewer, of South Point, plays Kathryn. The play explores the life of young women working in a watch factory used radium-based paint to create a luminous glow, only to later face devastating health consequences from the radiation in the paint.
For tickets and show times, visit Purple Pass or the theatre page at www.cedarville.edu.
As science rapidly advanced, mistakes were often made when innovations were introduced before the dangers were fully understood.
Radium-painted watch dials, once considered a cutting-edge convenience, soon became a deadly health crisis for the young women who painted them. What began as a fashionable and practical trend led to severe illnesses, sparking a courtroom battle that ultimately shaped workplace safety laws.
With its mix of historical drama and contemporary relevance, "Radium Girls" is a must-see for audiences middle school and up. For tickets and show times, visit Purple Pass or the theatre page at www.cedarville.edu.
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The odd plague eventually went away a couple months later, and people went back to their normal lives, but some people "died from their exertions." No one knows why this happened, but theories range from stress-induced mass hysteria, to food poisoning from fungi found in bread. The summer of 1816 should've been just a normal summer, but umm…let's just say my worst fear happened. For some parts of the United States, Canada, and Europe, that summer actually felt like a full-blown winter (snow, wind, cold temperatures, the whole shebang). Of course, the "year without summer" had catastrophic effects on farming, and people's overall wellbeing. So why did this happen? It turns out it was the result of an Indonesian volcanic eruption that happened the year before. A couple decades after Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the glow-in-the-dark radioactive element of radium in 1898, something absolutely catastrophic happened. 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