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Sports & Society Initiative will on May 5 host the second Creative Con, a day-long career readiness event training collegiate sports creatives. 

The conference will be held in the…

The Ohio State student newspaper, The Lantern, will be crashing through the glass ceiling next year with women as sports editors for the first time.…

Sports & Society Director Dr. Nicole Kraft earned the Arts and Sciences Faculty Champion Award on April 13 for her collaboration and dedication to the future success of students campus-wide.…

March is Women’s History Month--a time to celebrate women and what they’ve accomplished. At Ohio State, we wanted to recognize the university for being a pioneer in gender equality in sports and…

By Lauryn Luderman

The Ohio State Sports Analytics Conference, hosted by the Sports and Society Initiative and the Sports Analytics Association, will be held this Friday and Saturday in a…

By Lauryn Luderman and Tyler Boroshok

Ohio State's School of Communication and SSI were honored to connect students with the experience to work as part of the media contingent for the first…

by Lauryn Luderman

As of January 2023, sports gambling is legal in Ohio, but that same legalization does not apply to collegiate athletic departments.

The rule is, if a sport is…

SSI is thrilled to announce the launch of "The SSI Conversation". In this new sports talk show, Megan Husslein furthers the discussion surrounding how sports and society connect.

There…

By Greg Wilson

SSI was privileged to screen the movie “Behind the Shield: The Power & Politics of the NFL,” which deals with the reality of politics in the NFL at the Wexner Center for…