Fall 2023
![At a table on a small stage, Gretchen Klingler, a white woman with a style reminiscent of the 1940s, leans across a table to shake hands with a white man wearing an American Legion uniform cap and a suit. They’re making eye contact, and next to them smiling is a white man in a suit, this one with a VFW uniform cap.](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3/public/2023-10/OSAM_FA23_Gretchen_8_0.jpg.webp?itok=fzm_tUeb)
In Washington, D.C., or her local VFW, the 2019 graduate is driven by a need to care for her military family.
![Grinning while standing under the Goodyear blimp are two pilots in their crisp flying uniforms.](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3/public/2023-10/OSAM_FA23_Blimp_1_0.jpg.webp?itok=pCu06chm)
Come along as Jerry Hissem ’93 and Joe Erbs ’91 soar over campus and share their favorite parts of their unique job.
![A white older man smiles as he poses for the photo, standing in front of a long walk lined with trees. It seems symbolic of the new fronts of knowledge he helped open up.](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3/public/2023-10/agostini_homepage.jpg.webp?itok=N6_h-bSY)
Pierre Agostini found a way to use super-short light pulses to track these curious but powerful bits of matter.
![TYler Danburg, a young man with dark eyes and a friendly smile, wears a broadcast headset.](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3/public/2023-11/OSAM_FA23_Danburg_promo.jpg.webp?itok=jqHdR3lc)
You’d never know sport broadcaster Tyler Danburg has Tourette syndrome, and that’s thanks to hard work and big dreams.
![A man works on a computer whose screen shows a classroom setting while a woman on a stage beyond him wears a virtual reality headset and sensors used for motion capture. Ultimately, her movement will be shown on the screen he works on.](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3/public/2023-09/OSAM_FA23_ARTS_ACCAD_hero.jpg.webp?itok=KKOcwmn1)
This research center and a children’s hospital are creating virtual reality training to help staff calm young patients.
![As members of the band practices behind him in their street clothes, marching band director Chris Hoch sits on a stool on the practice field. His hair’s a bit messy, his clothes are casual, and his expression is happy.](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3/public/2023-09/OSAM_FA23_ARTS_band.jpg.webp?itok=UnmP-Tgs)
Christopher Hoch shares each step of the creative process, from idea to execution, behind those rousing football shows.
![A crowd of teachers and students, many carrying umbrellas, accompany a rolling cart with a large metal OSU sculpture (those letters are stacked on top of each other) with a light bulb at top — a ghost light. As it rains, the people pass by university buildings in an informal parade.](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3/public/2023-09/OSAM_FA23_ARTS_theater_promo.jpg.webp?itok=VQTToahp)
Students and teachers in the Department of Theatre, Film and Media Arts will work next to reminders of a strong legacy.
![Tiffany Lawson, a Black woman wearing a hat, round glasses and a friendly smile, leans on her work table. In front of her are all kinds of supplies and works in progress and on the wall behind her are paintings she created on paper bags. They include people, faces and scenes in unexpected colors.](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3/public/2023-09/OSAM_FA23_ARTS_Tiffany.jpg.webp?itok=31CLVGsW)
By day a deputy bailiff, this artist has made a name for herself sharing her hopes and views via her mixed-media works.
![Maggie Smith — a white woman with long brown hair, glasses and tattoos of lemons and leaves on her upper arms, which you can see because she’s wearing a linen, short-sleeved dress —smiles as if she’s laughing or talking as she sits in a painted wooden chair. On her lap is a book she’s writing in and behind her are more books on shelves.](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3/public/2023-08/23_4767811_4228_0.jpg.webp?itok=q64w-Fvo)
In her new book, the poet and 2003 MFA graduate shares her pain and hope, inspiring readers again with life’s wonders.