Hamidou Sy always knew he wanted to be a civil engineer, even before he understood what engineering was. As a child growing up in Mauritania in West Africa, Sy saw the impact of a lack of engineering firsthand.
When Luis Mercado walks across the Schottenstein Center stage to get his diploma this December, it will be the final steps in a journey he worried he might never finish.
Telling her classmates to "trade fear for hope," the first Black woman to get a doctorate in dance studies from The Ohio State University spoke at the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) graduation ceremony on Dec. 14.
