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David Hibler ’12, ’20 MS has spent two decades supporting his military brothers and sisters. Now, he's working as a liaison between the veterans community and researchers seeking to improve health care services for those who have suffered traumatic brain injuries in the military.

A typical game day at Ohio Stadium can see 100,000 fans creating up to 30,000 pounds of waste. However, Ohio State has ambitious sustainability goals – such as becoming a zero waste campus by 2025 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Here’s how students are helping reduce waste at the stadium.

Ohio State student Alberto Casas reflects on the success of this year's Pack Shack, an event that delivered more than 300,000 meals to those in need.

Parents of children with rare, incurable diseases have long had to deal with dual sources of hopelessness: the helpless feeling that their child was sick, and the compounding dread of knowing that few treatments were likely forthcoming. Dr. Krystof Bankiewicz, who has deep roots in the field of gene therapy, helped develop a therapy that is bringing the ability to walk and talk to children around the world who were born with neither.

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.

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.