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2024
March
12,
2024
| 10:00 AM America/New_York
Founded in 1818, Franklin College in New Athens, Ohio, was one of the first colleges in the state. Sadly, it closed just over a century later, in 1919. Why? A failure to adapt, said David J. Staley. Unlike other colleges founded at the time and
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February
26,
2024
| 11:30 AM America/New_York
In another lifetime, Christa Teston might have worked in usability testing.“I’m genuinely curious about how people navigate technologies, documents and other forms of messaging,” she said.
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2023
November
28,
2023
| 09:00 AM America/New_York
In Sahar Khoury’s “Umm,” an autumn 2023 exhibition commissioned by The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, the artist’s background as an anthropologist and persistent interest in items abandoned and re-assembled anchor
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October
09,
2023
| 11:30 AM America/New_York
When Elizabeth Weiser came to Newark to interview for a job at The Ohio State University’s regional campus, she was offered a tour of local neighborhoods and schools. She declined both in favor of something else.
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August
31,
2023
| 09:00 AM America/New_York
A dance degree means learning how to be an entrepreneur, not just a dancer. That’s a core belief of Charles O. Anderson, chair of the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University.
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August
23,
2023
| 10:00 AM America/New_York
For Jason Rawls, a Columbus native, teaching at The Ohio State University is an honor.“It’s a huge deal. It means the world,” he said. “I grew up going to Ohio State games so to actually be employed here now, wow.”
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July
10,
2023
| 11:30 AM America/New_York
The newly inaugurated Artist Laureate at The Ohio State University, Nyama McCarthy-Brown, just returned from a trip to Brazil. An associate professor in the Department of Dance, McCarthy-Brown accompanied students to the country for two weeks to
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June
09,
2023
| 11:00 AM America/New_York
Veterinary school, like so many other programs, comes with its share of stress, said Amanda Midkiff, who is studying to be a veterinary medical oncologist. One of the ways she manages that stress is through music: Midkiff plays French horn in the
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May
19,
2023
| 10:00 AM America/New_York
Ohio is home to a large number of fragments from medieval books, a rarity for the Midwest. Eric Johnson, professor and curator of Thompson Special Collections at The Ohio State University, said Ohio has more manuscript pages per capita than anywhere
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April
04,
2023
| 11:00 AM America/New_York
The Ohio State University has selected Nyama McCarthy-Brown as its inaugural Artist Laureate. She will begin a one-year appointment on July 1, 2023. 
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March
29,
2023
| 10:00 AM America/New_York
There are 88 keys on a typical piano. There are also 88 counties in the state of Ohio. This coincidence led to the creation of Opus 88, a program from The Ohio State University’s School of Music that seeks to bring the university’s musical talent to
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March
15,
2023
| 14:00 PM America/New_York
Acclaimed Indigenous filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin visited the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University earlier this month to screen her 1993 documentary “Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance.”
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March
02,
2023
| 10:00 AM America/New_York
Margaret Newell, a distinguished professor in The Ohio State University Department of History, was “delighted” to learn she would be receiving $492,000 from the Mellon Foundation.“Historians generally don’t get these big grants,” she said. “It
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March
01,
2023
| 13:00 PM America/New_York
This fall, an exhibition featuring the work of artist Sarah Rosalena is opening at the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA). Kris Paulsen, associate professor and chair of undergraduate studies in the Department of History of Art
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February
08,
2023
| 08:00 AM America/New_York
After 50 years, the curtain is closing on The Ohio State University’s Drake Performance and Event Center. But the end of an era on one part of campus leads to a new beginning on another.
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January
27,
2023
| 10:00 AM America/New_York
Gaëtane Verna’s interest in the arts began in her childhood.“I come from a family where my parents thought that a good education required that you did some art,” said the new executive director of the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State
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2022
December
06,
2022
| 11:00 AM America/New_York
Last week, Fiona Hill, former Senior Director for Europe and Russia at the National Security Council, spoke to a riveted audience at The Ohio State University.
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October
25,
2022
| 12:00 PM America/New_York
Michael Ibrahim, the newly appointed director of The Ohio State University School of Music, knew the university was special when he agreed to take the job last spring.
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October
12,
2022
| 13:00 PM America/New_York
According to Michelle Wibbelsman, associate professor of Latin American Indigenous Cultures in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University, the masks featured in the “Dancing with Devils: Latin American Masks Traditions”
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October
05,
2022
| 11:00 AM America/New_York
As she worked on the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center’s “Beyond Guilt” exhibition, curator Jennifer Suchland came to understand multiple meanings for the title.The first, said Suchland, also an associate professor in the Department of
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September
30,
2022
| 12:00 PM America/New_York
“Imagine you’re a moth in this gallery. What piece of art is your favorite?”This is one of the writing prompts that Kari Gunter-Seymour recently gave the student participants in the Wexner Center for the Arts’ Pages program. Pages is a free program
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September
09,
2022
| 10:00 AM America/New_York
In 2008, Dana Renga sat down to watch the Super Bowl. Renga, professor of Italian and dean of arts and humanities at The Ohio State University, is “obsessed” with the commercials, she said. That year, one of the ads, for Audi, was an homage to “The
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August
31,
2022
| 10:00 AM America/New_York
Marian Moser Jones, associate professor of health services management and policy in the College of Public Health and associate professor in the Department of History, joined The Ohio State University just this year. One of her first projects was
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August
24,
2022
| 12:33 PM America/New_York
The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University has tapped art historian and arts administrator Gaëtane Verna to be its next executive director. Verna will be coming to the Wex in November from Toronto’s The Power Plant Contemporary Art
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June
02,
2022
| 14:00 PM America/New_York
Religion and sound are tied together in evocative ways.Church bells. Public proselytizing. Calls to prayer. Tantric chanting. What does religion sound like, and how can we learn new truths about the diversity of religion in the United States when we
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May
02,
2022
| 12:00 PM America/New_York
In her project A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures, Carmen Winant, associate professor in the Department of Art in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University, explores the community that women build for themselves to escape
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April
22,
2022
| 10:00 AM America/New_York
When it came to choosing a location for her Fulbright experience, Jasmine Stork admits that part of what drew her to Poland is how little she knew about the area.
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March
18,
2022
| 11:30 AM America/New_York
The Ohio State University is home to one of the country’s larger collections of some of the planet’s smaller creatures. The C.A. Triplehorn Insect Collection holds more than 4 million dry pinned insect specimens and another 2.5 million wet
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March
17,
2022
| 13:00 PM America/New_York
One of the more arresting pieces in To Begin, Again: A Prehistory of the Wex, 1968-89 at the Wexner Center for the Arts is a 40-foot-long sculpture made by Betty Collings. “Dance” is an inflated, pale vinyl tube that twists and turns over itself. It
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March
02,
2022
| 11:00 AM America/New_York
Early last month, Elissa Washuta, assistant professor of creative writing in the Ohio State University English department, received word that her latest book, “White Magic,” was on the shortlist for the 2022 PEN Open Book Award.
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