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Matt and Nikki Swift

Ohio State filmmakers teach students with autism how to make movies

Film Studies Program Coordinator Matt Swift and his partner Nikki Swift are educating students with autism at Bridgeway Academy how to be filmmakers.

Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones in Claudine

Simone Drake to discuss newly restored classic at Wexner Center

Simone Drake, chair of the Department of African American and African Studies and Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor, to lead a discussion of the classic 1974 film Claudine at the…

High school students who participated in the Philosophy and Critical Thinking Summer Camp in June 2018.

Philosophy summer camp introduces philosophical thinking to high schoolers

The Philosophy and Critical Thinking Summer Camp is an outreach initiative championed by the Department of Philosophy that introduces philosophical thinking to high school students. Every summer,…

Fairy Illustration

Fairies, fantasy to be focus of CMRS conference

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will host “Fairies and the Fantastic” on Feb. 22-23 at the Ohio Union.

Simone Drake, Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor & Department Chair Faculty

Department of African American and African Studies and a history of excellence

Simone Drake, Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of African American and African Studies, takes a look at the department's history of excellence in…

Spencer Gilmore, a fourth-year economics student in Rick Livingston's American Food Cultures class, presents a poster of his to Peter Chan's Visual Design Communications class.

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 +…

Mark Lomax II

Musician, composer Mark Lomax, II debuts epic new work

Mark Lomax, II received his BA, MA and DMA from the School of Music. A recipient of a Wexner Center for the Arts Residency Award, Lomax is in the middle of a milestone year of honors, recognition and…

Orton Hall at dusk

15 Arts and Sciences students named Presidential Fellows

Awarded each semester to graduate students of outstanding scholarship, the Presidential Fellowship gives fellows one year of full-time financial support.

Associate history professor Hasan Jeffries and his students at James Madison's Montpelier. Photo credit Karla Haddad.

Field school sheds light on history of slavery and its modern manifestations

A group of undergraduate students recently partook in a field school that examined the history of slavery and racism. Students explored the home and plantation of former U.S. President James Madison…