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"What do you think an addict is?" That was the question Sheryl Hirsh, assistant director of the Laura and Alvin Siegal Jewish Lifelong Learning Program, posed to more than 100 law enforcement officials at the Ohio Attorney General's Law Enforcement Conference last fall. Some answers included: “dish...

Edwin Pacheco Colón had never heard his mother so scared. Calming her as she crouched in her room, he stayed on the line while Hurricane Maria battered her home and the rest of Puerto Rico. Then, silence. For days. And not just from his mother—nothing came from family members spread around the isl...

Services will be held this weekend for an emeritus professor and three-time alumnus who made a major impact on �Ӱ���Ƶ and on the field of engineering. Harry W. Mergler, a member of the university’s faculty for more than 30 years, died last month at the age of 93. As a child...

Simon “Si” Ostrach, who ultimately became “a giant in the field,” had no idea what engineering was when he graduated high school. Simon "Si" Ostrach “I came from Eastern European people, and the anticipation was that you’re going to be a physician or a teacher or maybe an attorney,” he said in an...

In honor of this week’s special homecoming edition of The Daily, we wanted to highlight a notable representative of �Ӱ���Ƶ pride: Spartie, our mascot. Below is a brief history of how Spartie came to be, and the mascot’s answers to our five questions. As students, alumni and...

Living on a graduate student stipend in the Deep South, writer Lucy Biederman had few shopping options—so she found herself frequenting a place at once mysterious and magical to her: Walmart. Roaming its aisles packed with products and people procuring them, she saw the retailer beyond the agenda-d...

When Ye “Duke” Li began boxing in China at age 15, he thought it would be something he’d do in his free time for a few years before college. But the sport became anything but a hobby. Instead, two years later, he won an amateur national championship in China, prompting the coach of the professional...

Editor’s Note: Normally, our “5 questions with…” segment features just one outstanding member of our community. But when we learned of this duo’s summer experience, we wanted to make sure the campus heard both of their perspectives. Know someone you think should be featured in “5 questions”? Emai...

When Paige Myers rose from her wheelchair to accept her diploma last spring, the thousands watching �Ӱ���Ƶ’s commencement ceremonies roared in approval. Now, just days after she began graduate study here, the campus community is mourning her passing. Diagnosed in elementary school wi...

After sustaining three major concussions in just four years playing football and rugby, Sean Baxley was familiar with the immediate effects of the injury. But after the third, he decided it was time to look into the long-lasting impact of concussions. That’s what led him to the topic of chronic tra...