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Putting our shared knowledge to work in communities around the state

  1. Ohio Stadium’s legacy includes academics, affordability

    From 1933 to 1999, the west side of the Horseshoe housed the Stadium Scholarship Dormitory, which started after then-Dean of Men Joseph Park envisioned it being a way to make college more affordable and accessible for those who demonstrated academic merit.

  2. Stronger cybersecurity for factories of the future

    As automation becomes more vital to manufacturing, the chances grow that something could go wrong. Vimal Buck and a team of researchers, undergraduates and graduate students at Ohio State’s Artifically Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (AIMS) lab are working on methods to predict the trustworthiness of robotic equipment and identify when it’s behaving abnormally.

  3. One student's vital calling to ensure equity

    After initially studying pharmacy, Faith Metlock switched to nursing because it promised many paths to fulfill her deep desire to provide both patient care and the ability to effect change, specifically with regard to health equity. Then the pandemic highlighted the broad health disparities in our country. Faith Metlock decided to do something about it.

  4. Forging new futures in the field of cardio-oncology

    Within the past decade, cardiologists and other clinicians began to notice a puzzling trend. A small percentage of their patients who had previously been treated for cancers were developing heart conditions. Since then, Ohio State’s Sakima Smith and others in his research program have been making huge strides in the emerging field of cardio-oncology.

  5. How an Ohio State doctor is changing sports medicine
  6. STEM camps ignite passion for science