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Mansfield Microfarms craft sustainable urban agriculture model
Kip Curtis and Mansfield microfarm volunteers in 2019. Photo courtesy Kip Curtis.
Back in the ’70s, Kip Curtis’ parents embraced the back-to…
Slavery and its legacies: Remembering 1619 and Beyond
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, pictured above, is the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacies of slavery. (Photo courtesy of…
Logan named director of American Economic Association Mentoring Program
In his new role as director of the American Economic Association (AEA) Mentoring Program, Trevon Logan isn’t necessarily looking to push the field of economics into more research on diversity and…
Teaching the "hard history" of slavery and racism in America
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Earlier this year for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, associate professor in the Department of History, found himself in front of his…
What history can teach us about pandemics
Carriers at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington, D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918. Source: National Photo Company.…
Building bridges between Ohio State and the state health department
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Every night when Elisabeth Root comes home, her daughter asks what she did that day.
“I’ll say, ‘Well, I told the governor this,’ or, ‘I got to…
EEOB professor’s research to tackle problems measuring biodiversity change
We’ve all heard about dwindling biodiversity across the planet, but it turns out scientists have a difficult time actually verifying it.
Because it’s impossible to continually count…
ABRC combating plant blindness, educating on climate change
One of the greenhouses managed by Ohio State's Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center
An often-overlooked plant with a hard-to-pronounce…
2019 High Points
The College of Arts and Sciences houses compelling artists, inquisitive scholars, brilliant scientists and dynamic spaces. We are excited to share some of this year’s high points as we…