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Teaching collaboration merges food sustainability, visual design
By 2025, Ohio State plans to source 40 percent of on-campus food locally and sustainably.
This ambitious commitment to future sustainability serves as the backdrop for the Food Futures:…

Design MFA student creates meditation for virtual reality
When Kevin Bruggeman was 16, his mom was diagnosed with cancer.
He was by his mother’s side and helped her through the entire ordeal, but there was little he could do to alleviate…

An artwork with the power of multiple universes
Imagine seeing the universe.
Now imagine seeing five.
That’s exactly what the room-sized, cosmology-inspired artwork “Island Universe” seeks to portray. The elaborate installation…

Musician, composer Mark Lomax, II debuts epic new work
Composer, musician, educator and activist Dr. Mark Lomax, II is in the midst of a major year.
Lomax, a three-time graduate of Ohio State — he received his BA, MA and DMA …
15 Arts and Sciences students named Presidential Fellows
Fifteen graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences have received an autumn 2018 Presidential Fellowship, the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School at Ohio State.…

School of Music PhD uses ACCAD Motion Lab to study performers' movement
How does a musician’s expressive movement influence how an audience perceives their performance?
Caitlyn Trevor, a graduate teaching…

Dance and English alum brings ballet to the big screen in "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms"
Alumna Lindy Goldstein (BA, BFA, 2000) helped bring a dose of holiday magic to the movies this season. The dance and English graduate is the executive producer of Disney’s "The Nutcracker and…

Funding furthers research on connection between music, health
Hannah Bachman, a fourth-year student pursuing a dual degree in music theory and neuroscience, and Daniel Shanahan, assistant professor of music theory, discuss their work surrounding…

Meet the Asian American star of Legally Blonde, the Musical
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She’s not blonde, and she’s not a Gemini vegetarian. But third-year student Cindy Tran Nguyen is owning the role of Elle Woods, the California sorority…