It seems like every day we hear about more OSU alumni, faculty and students contributing their professional expertise to help ameliorate the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Some are wetlands experts assessing the environmental implications. Some are veterinarians trying to save and rehabilitate the oil-saturated birds, turtles and other wildlife. Many are fire [...]

By Matt Elliott
STATE Writer
It was a cold, cloudy December evening outside Whitehurst Hall. Campus was nearly deserted. Students had cleared out for home, commencement and parties. As for me, a communications specialist (a fancy term for “writer”) at OSU’s marketing office and a graduate student in the Spears School’s MBA program, I was fresh from [...]

I was hoping a STATE article about English Professor Ai Ogawa, an internationally known poet, would spark a new round of celebration honoring her triumphant spirit.
Last December, she won the U.S. Artists Ford Fellowship in Literature. Only one person from each state receives the distinguished honor and $50,000 prize annually.
However, Ai died unexpectedly shortly before [...]