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Visitors to this year’s Touch-A-Truck exhibition at the Ohio State Fair have the chance to explore fire trucks, police cars, farm equipment and, in a new addition this year, a Chevy Camaro that was turned into a hybrid-electric by students at The Ohi...

Hundreds of people from across Ohio and around the nation descended on Marion, Ohio, the weekend of July 14-15 to be part of The Ohio State University at Marion’s annual Warren G. Harding Symposium. ...

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 stud...

The second annual Pride Brunch was held at The Ohio State University earlier this month. Guests came together to eat and celebrate the university’s LGBTQ community and its allies.

By design, prisons are not stimulating places, said Mary Thomas, a professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. This is why prison education programs are important.“In spaces of incarceration, the...

Two years ago, Bridget Britton, behavioral health field specialist at the Tuscarawas County Extension office for The Ohio State University, received an email from Cathann Kress, dean of the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Kr...

In Ohio, what are the job prospects for people who access state training services after losing their jobs through no fault of their own? How does community college or the Jobs for Veterans State Grant benefit people who complete those programs?...

The D.C. Advocacy Immersion at The Ohio State University is a special opportunity for students in the College of Social Work. Each spring, a group receives advocacy training and travels to Washington to meet with lawmakers and learn about government ...

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 ...

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.”...

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 at...

The Ohio State University women’s basketball team is off to a hot start. The team is currently 21 and 4 and among the best in the Big Ten.A key factor in the team’s success? The fans. The thousands that attend each game give the Buckeyes a boost ever...

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 Univ...

When the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service (CRS) is working at its best, the work often goes unnoticed.“A win for CRS is you never heard we were there.” That was the central message from CRS Director Paul Monteiro, who spoke to t...

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.

The Ohio State University Buckeyes and the University of Michigan Wolverines face off on the field and at blood donation sites on both universities’ campuses this month. The annual Blood Battle leverages the “greatest rivalry in college football” to ...

The Ohio State University’s College of Dentistry continues to offer dental care to Ohio veterans each November. Give Veterans A Smile Day provides dental screenings, X-rays and cleanings, all free of charge. This year’s event takes place on Monday, N...

Experts around the world working in animal, human and environmental health will be celebrating One Health Day on Nov. 3 to educate the public about the benefits of a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to the prevention, detection and response ...

An international conversation about the world’s profound food security challenges came to The Ohio State University for North America’s official celebration of World Food Day on Oct. 16.

Beginning this fall, the Buckeye Food Alliance (BFA), a food pantry at The Ohio State University, is offering six free cooking classes. The classes grew out of conversations about how to better serve the student population, especially those experienc...

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 Wom...

In observance of International Overdose Awareness Day, The Ohio State University hosted the Columbus Dispatch at the Fawcett Center for an Aug. 31 panel discussion about the opioid epidemic in central Ohio and strategies to prevent and treat addictio...

Last month, students from a cluster of small private colleges known as the Ohio 5 schools presented research they had completed at The Ohio State University during the OSU SURE program.Ohio 5-OSU SURE, or Summer Undergraduate Research Experience, all...

In his years of research on academic achievement in minority students, James L. Moore III, vice provost for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer and nationally recognized distinguished professor of urban education at The Ohio State Uni...

Earlier this month, student-athletes from the Big Ten traveled to Alabama for a weekend-long trip. Part of the conference’s Big Life Series, the event took place in Selma and Montgomery, the epicenter of the civil rights movement....

The annual State Tour returned to the road for the first time since the COVID pandemic and included stops in Dayton, Springfield and Yellow Springs.

In 2016, Columbus was one of 64 cities around the country that joined the World Health Organization and AARP International Network of Age-Friendly Communities. Since then, Age-Friendly Columbus and Franklin County has evolved, transitioning to The Oh...

NOAA and its research partners are forecasting that western Lake Erie will experience a smaller than average harmful algal bloom (HAB) this summer, which would make it less severe than 2021 and more akin to what was seen in the lake in 2020....

Chris Yates was proud to walk in the 2022 Columbus Pride March, the first in-person march since 2019. He was also proud that his employer, the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University, comprised the largest contingent of the university’s p...

Members of The Ohio State University Retirees Association knew they wanted to pursue a new project to support students; the only question was what form that support would take.The organization of retired Ohio State faculty and staff has a long histor...