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Francesca Miller stands by one of her paintings

'An artist's duty' — Miller ’19 paints to reflect the times, celebrate Black joy

As Francesca Miller ’19 stands poised in front of a blank wall — her canvas — in downtown Columbus with marching and chanting and hurt all around her, she ponders what activist and musician Nina…

Sarah Wood headshot

TBDBITL bass drummer juggles school, military, band

Photo courtesy Sarah Wood.

In 2016, Sarah Wood got a call from a wrong number.

It wound up changing her life.

When Wood answered…

EJ Westlake headshot

Westlake returns to home state excited for new opportunities with Theatre, Film and Media Arts

Maybe now E.J. Westlake’s sister Rebecca will be happy.

Following 20 years as a faculty member at the University of Michigan — and a long…

Gabriel Conant, Laura Dugan, John Johnson, Yanlan Liu, Melinda Ritchie, E.J. Westlake

New Arts and Sciences faculty take new positions this autumn

The College of Arts and Sciences is thrilled to welcome six new tenure-track faculty members, whose appointments begin this autumn.

One person standing at a bus stop in Chicago

How Ohio State journalists have covered a chaotic 2020-21


An elderly woman walks across the usually busy Columbus Drive that splits Chicago’s Grant Park in half, on the first work day after Illinois Gov. J.B…

The Oval at dawn

Arts and Sciences faculty leading 10 Seed Fund for Racial Justice projects

Twelve team projects — 10 of which are led or co-led by faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences — were recently awarded funding in the second round of Ohio State’s Seed Fund for Racial Justice…

Jae Park conducts during rehearsal.

Collaborating to bring "L'Histoire du Soldat" to the stage

Jae Park, a doctor of musical arts student in orchestral conducting in Ohio State's School of Music, needed experience conducting large-scale orchestral works, such as opera, as part of his…

Portion of "Risk Factor" poster

Student's award-winning documentary addresses Ohio’s Black infant mortality crisis

During the three years Barento Taha spent working on his first film, he regularly found himself in spaces that pushed him outside his…

Darius Gainer

Undergraduate's book explores Black representation in animation

Animation has always held a special place in Darius Gainer’s life. He grew up watching Cartoon Network and Disney movies, the “Batman” animated series and…