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Nicole Liptak of Johnston is both a full-time engineer and a full-time mother. Here she sits down with her daughters, 11-year-old Ava and 7-year-old Alaina, in the dining room of their Love Warner Road home to help them with school work.
JOHNSTON Nicole Liptak has been an engineer for more than two decades with Aptiv, formerly Delphi Packard. And for more than a decade, she’s been a mother.
The now-senior advanced development engineer, who graduated summa cum laude in 1999 with a chemical engineering degree from Youngstown State University, recently was honored for developing patents that help with the manufacturing of electric vehicles.
NILES The American Civil War was fought about 160 years ago, but a Youngstown State University professor of history speaking Saturday at a McKinley Memorial event said the war can still evoke strong emotions.
Dr. Amy Laurel Fluker, a Missouri native who also taught about the Civil War in a classroom in Mississippi, said her studies focus less on the dates, the battles and the military commanders, but rather on the interpretations of those who built monuments and started Civil War veterans organizations.
“Things get left out in the study of history all the time,” Fluker said. “My study tries to seek out why this happens.”
gvogrin@tribtoday.com
NILES The American Civil War was fought about 160 years ago, but a Youngstown State University professor of history speaking Saturday at a McKinley Memorial event said the war can still evoke strong emotions.
Dr. Amy Laurel Fluker, a Missouri native who also taught about the Civil War in a classroom in Mississippi, said her studies focus less on the dates, the battles and the military commanders, but rather on the interpretations of those who built monuments and started Civil War veterans organizations.
“Things get left out in the study of history all the time,” Fluker said. “My study tries to seek out why this happens.”