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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…

Nadine George-Graves

Incoming chair of Department of Dance: 'Artists find a way'

Exactly three months ago, I gave a talk to the students, staff and faculty in the Department of Dance explaining why I wanted to become their next chair. Believe it or not, in my five-year vision…

Petry's class dancing through Zoom

Dancing digitally: Instructors and students connect across screens

Professor Susan Van Pelt Petry’s contemporary dance class used to meet three days a week in a large studio in Sullivant Hall for technical training, conditioning, learning sequences and performing…

Lord Denney's Players produced 'Much Ado About Nothing' via Zoom

Lord Denney's Players adapt play into 'Much A-Zoom About Nothing'

The show must go on.

It’s as true on Broadway as it is for Lord Denney’s Players (LDP), a theater troupe housed in the Department of English.

LDP was all set to raise the curtain…

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Jordan Davis and the Buckeyes behind Can't Stop Columbus

When day-to-day life first ground to a halt in the face of the coronavirus, Jordan Davis, director of Smart Columbus and co-organizer of Can’t Stop Columbus, felt like she couldn’t help enough by…

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Social distancing book recommendations

Looking for a new book or wanting to rediscover old favorites as you heed social distancing guidelines from home? Faculty and friends of the Department of English have you covered with some of…

Laura Seeger in Sedona

Laura Seeger keeps calm and carries on

When the College of Arts and Sciences asked for nominations of students, faculty and staff who have stepped up to the massive challenge of moving approximately 4,000 classes online in two weeks,…

Alex McCarthy

Geography alum coordinating local county's emergency response to COVID-19


Alex McCarthy (second from left) with health officials and first responders during a FEMA training exercise on local…

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Science Sundays goes online

Science Sundays, one of the premier outreach events of Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences, is bringing cutting-edge research presented by outstanding speakers into people’s homes. …