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4 days ago | dispatch.com | Sheridan Hendrix

CCAD illustration students participate in a weekly drawing program called CCAD Sketch, featuring live animal ambassadors. The program aims to improve students' visual vocabulary and sketching speed, essential skills for animation. Students sketch a variety of animals, from wolves and falcons to sloths and potbellied pigs, to enhance their understanding of animal anatomy and movement.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Sheridan Hendrix

For more than three decades, hundreds of Ohio State University students of color have gathered on the eve of spring commencement each year to be recognized for their academic achievements at the Afrikan American Farewell Celebration. But this year, it was at risk of not happening. That's because when Ohio State announced in February that it would sunset the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, which had long been a sponsor of the event, gone with it was funding.

1 week ago | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | Sheridan Hendrix

Sumeya Haji Ibrahim shouted to her friends, who were clad in plastic rain ponchos and sheltering under a tunnel inside Ohio Stadium. "We'll never graduate in the rain again!""Yeah, right," one of her friends replied with a smirk. Nothing could dampen Haji Ibrahim's day — not even an hour of steady showers that disrupted Ohio State University's spring commencement ceremony Sunday, May 4. "I'm ecstatic," said Haji Ibrahim, who received her master's degree in health administration.

1 week ago | dispatch.com | Sheridan Hendrix

More than 12,000 degrees and certificates will be delivered at Ohio State University's spring commencement this afternoon, May 4, at Ohio Stadium. The ceremony began at noon under partly sunny skies and is expected to run for two-and-a-half to three hours. After a record-setting day of rainfall on Saturday, May 3, there's a chance that showers and thunderstorms could make an appearance at commencement. The National Weather Service forecasts mostly cloudy skies with a high near 65 degrees.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Sheridan Hendrix

Columbus police are investigating after one person was killed and another injured in an early morning shooting on the city's North Side. Police got a call just before 4 a.m. on May 4 and officers were dispatched to the 5300 block of Roche Place on report of a shooting. The shooting took place near the intersection of Roche Place and East Lincoln Avenue, where the roads meet at the entrance to the Woodward Park Trail.