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Years ago, Karen Potter (GRS ’89), professor and chair of the Department of Dance, observed a colleague providing feedback to a student. The exchange was quiet and private so that only the student could hear the instructor’s words of criticism or praise. Potter was so impressed by what she observed...

At first blush, the word that Tim Goler uses to describe his mentor, Eva Kahana—as “family”—would seem to belie their dissimilar backgrounds. Kahana is a Hungarian Jewish refugee who survived Nazi occupation, the Holocaust and a brutal Communist rule in her native country to become a sociology scho...

Diana Driscoll likes to ask her students, “Why do we care?” The inspiration for that challenge came from a former student who ended each class by asking her that same question. “He was not being disrespectful,” she said. “He really wanted to understand the connection between physics and real life....

“Medieval robots” may sound like menacing characters in a graphic novel or sci-fi blockbuster, but there actually were robots (also called automatons) in medieval literature. �Ӱ���Ƶ students had the opportunity to learn more about them in an interdisciplinary SAGES seminar, ...

Heather Hurwitz, a full-time lecturer in the Department of Sociology at �Ӱ���Ƶ, challenged students in her Sociology 101 classes to perform acts of kindness and compassion and then post about their experiences on a class discussion thread. The result was an outpouring of goo...

While staying home is a crucial part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there are times it’s not possible, whether it’s essential work or a trip to the grocery store. Masks provide protection in those instances. Some faculty, staff and students have stepped up to make masks for members of the...

When Ohio’s stay-at-home order began on March 24, the artistic community had no choice but to close their studios and performance spaces to the public. Shanna Beth McGee, professor of theater at �Ӱ���Ƶ and co-founder of the immersive theater company Shadow of the Run, wanted...

Kathryn Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs in �Ӱ���Ƶ's Department of Political Science, was recently elected as an executive committee member-at-large for the International Studies Association (ISA). After serving as a section program chair in 2016 ...

For the past 15 years, Research ShowCASE has brought the �Ӱ���Ƶ community together to celebrate remarkable inventions, solutions and discoveries of research. In recent years at this event, the university has recognized outstanding faculty contributions with the Faculty Disti...

Alanna Cooper, the Abba Hillel Silver Chair of Jewish Studies, participated in a discussion on the podcast of the Association of Jewish Studies, "Adventures in Jewish Studies." Titled “The World of Jewish Languages,” the episode was the third in the series’ second season. While Hebrew and Yiddish ...