When Michelle Inderbitzin began her study in a juvenile detention center, inmates shunned her at first. Gradually, their stories revealed a troubled edge of today’s youth culture. Inderbitzin, Brian Flay and Rick Settersten are investigating youth issues from criminality to character development and institutional support.
Most students come to college as works in progress, their interests only partially identified, their potential still to be realized. And as they explore and develop that potential, many students find something equally important: a mentor.
Three words define Kate Hunter-Zaworski’s vision of accessible public transportation: safe, seamless, dignified. Under her leadership, experts in biomechanics, ergonomics and mechanical engineering design equipment for mass transit systems — everything from bus lifts to boarding ramps and jetliner lavatories.
When OSU librarian Cliff Mead leads you into the collected life history of one of America’s greatest minds, you step into the vortex of the last century. The Valley Library, where the papers of Linus Pauling reside, opens up a first-person portal into the most transformative events of the 1900s, an intimate avenue into 20th-century headline news. 
It was like a scene from a grade-B horror film. On a gently rocking vessel in the warm waters of the Sea of Cortez, a young oceanographer earnestly watches her computer screen while colleagues lower a cable into the water.
