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Three Ohio State undergraduate students were recently awarded scholarships for their performance in the Chase Center’s first annual student essay contest. This contest provided an opportunity for Ohio State students to work through and express their opinion on an important issue facing the country. 

What role should the nation’s leading research universities play in educating the next generation of U.S. citizens? For the presidents of two of the largest research engines in higher education, the answer is: a significant one.

On December 18, 2024, Executive Director Lee Strang provided invited testimony to the Workforce and Higher Education Committee of the Ohio Senate. 

Watch the testimony

In Ohio and across the nation, the final hours of voting are coming to an end. Once those votes are counted and the outcome is clear, the country and The Ohio State University campus community will need to determine how to live well as fellow citizens after the election.

The Ohio State University has appointed legal scholar Lee J. Strang as the inaugural executive director of the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society.