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Thomas Worthington High School theater students perform "The Twisted Tales of Poe"

Alums pivot TWHS theater program to virtual performances

Thomas Worthington High School theater students perform "The Twisted Tales of Poe"

It’s hard to overstate the prominence of the Thomas Worthington…

Kip Curtis at microfarm

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…

National memorial for peace and justice

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…

Trevon Logan poses with mentees of the AEA Mentoring Program.

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…

Jeffries presenting to his daughter's class

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…

Lantern clipping reads "University Closes Today To Stop Spread of Influenza"

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.…

Elisabeth Root

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…

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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…

Arabidopsis

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…