Mary Howard receives YWCA 2021 Women of Achievement Award
Mary Howard wears many hats, from Sunday school teacher to volunteer track coach and aid to countless central Ohioans.
Mary Howard wears many hats, from Sunday school teacher to volunteer track coach and aid to countless central Ohioans.
After sharing challenges they faced as women in engineering, University President Kristina M. Johnson and Dean of the College of Engineering Ayanna Howard shared ambitions to increase diversity in the field Wednesday.
James L. Moore III, Ohio State’s vice provost for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer, said his younger siblings complained that his plaques, trophies and accolades took up all the wall space in their childhood home in South Carolina.
Incoming Ohio State Executive Vice President and Provost Dr. Melissa L. Gilliam grew up in Washington, D.C. She said she gets her sense of service and civic engagement from her mother, who was the first Black female reporter at The Washington Post, and her desire to truly engage with people from her father, who is an artist.
More than 400 people — largely Ohio State students — gathered outside the Ohio Union before staging a sit-in inside the building Wednesday to protest Ohio State’s relationship with Columbus Police following the recent Columbus Police killing of Ma’Khia Bryant.
For nearly 50 years, Black sororities and fraternities at Ohio State have sought a place on campus to celebrate the National Pan-Hellenic Council. Next fall, students can expect to see nine monuments around a plaza behind Hale Hall on the South Oval.
Local artist Bryan Moss was granted the opportunity to help White Castle celebrate its century-long existence and partnership with Coca-Cola by creating a custom mural and correlating cup designs.
University President Kristina M. Johnson’s new Race, Inclusion and Social Equity hiring initiative is meant to hire 150 diverse tenure-track faculty in the coming years. The initiative gives some of the university’s cultural studies leaders hope, but some also voiced concern the new hires won’t be equitably distributed to their departments.
In the midst of COVID-19 and its unprecedented consequences, an age-old barrier for students has surged with a vengeance: financial uncertainty. Ohio State’s Knowlton School of Architecture launched the Knowlton Access Fund, a need-based fund provides financial support for Knowlton students looking for assistance, especially during the pandemic.
Lantern editors Sam Raudins, Sarah Szilagy, Max Garrison and Owen Milnes spoke with Kristina M. Johnson during The Lantern’s semesterly interview w…