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SSI Wishes Best of Luck to Olympic-Bound Buckeyes
Ohio State is represented by 26 extraordinary athletes in the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, set for July 23-Aug. 8, in Tokyo, who are either current, former or incoming students.…
SSI Partner LiFEsports Receives Million Coaches Challenge Grant
The Ohio State University LiFEsports Initiative, managed by leaders in the Department of Athletics and the College of Social Work, has been awarded a grant from the Susan Crown Exchange (SCE)…
Board Member Mitten Discusses NIL with U.S. Senate
SSI board member Matthew Mitten, Marquette law professor and executive director of the National Sports Law Institute of Marquette University Law School, testified June 9 about “NCAA…
Kraft in The Conversation: Sportswriters must 'be better' in press conference interviews
SSI Director Nicole Kraft wrote recently in The Conversation about the ways in which sports press conferences are compromised by poor questions and can be improved by taking the chess approach to…
VIDEO: Final 'Intersectionality Of Change' Session Focuses On Reporting Out
The fourth and final session of Sports and Society Initiative's "Intersectionality of Change," focused on "Reporting Out, Moving Forward" and included a 75-minute talk between Luke Fedlam of…
RESEARCH: Four Winning Teams Recognized at SSI Research Undergraduate Research Fair
The Sports and Society Initiative is honored to announce award winners for its third annual Undergraduate Student Research fair.
The presentation from Ohio State's Emily Nothnagle on…
RESEARCH: SSI-recognized research places third at MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Economics majors Alexander Williams (pictured), Seth Brugler and Ben Clarke, former winners of the SSI Sports Analytics Grant, finished third in the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference research…
RESEARCH: Nothnagle research takes second at Denman Forum
Emily Nothnagle, a triple major in anthropology, psychology, and music, and captain of the National Champion OSU Pistol team, recently defended her undergraduate research thesis on "Sport…
RESEARCH: SSI Undergraduate Student Research Fair Draws 13 Entries
The third SSI Student Research fair took place via Zoom on April 16, as students from Ohio State, Purdue, Illinois, and Otterbein presented research on a wide range of topics covering the…