Tagged: Young Scholars Program

The "highly uncertain" future of the workplace dominated by the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools was the focus of a wide-ranging discussion led by Federal Reserve System Board member Lisa D. Cook, PhD, Thursday night.

ODI Scholars Bobby McAlpine (MSP) and Justin Robinson (YSP) are part of the 57th Assembly of The Ohio State University's Undergraduate Student Government (USG). Bobby McAlpine serves as the USG incumbent President while Justin Robinson is the newly-elected Vice President.

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion's Young Scholars Program (YSP) recently received statewide recognition for its impactful work in improving college access for first-generation college students in Ohio.

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As an aspiring counselor, Aalissia Thomas plans to spend the rest of her life helping others navigate challenges—a dream she will be one step closer to achieving when she accepts her diploma this May. However, Thomas says she never would have accomplished this milestone if the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) had not supported her through difficulties of her own.

The first-generation experience of students persevering toward graduation often includes obsticles. Young Scholar Brian Finley, Aalissia Thomas, Sarah Al-Hashemi, and Say Yes Scholar Navi Draper share their experiences and left words of wisdom for future graduates in this Lantern article.

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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.

“Whenever we would travel from province to province, state to state, we would see terrible accidents on the roadway. We would see bad infrastructure, inadequate water resources,” Sy recalled. “That was a call to action for me.”

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.

Mercado came to The Ohio State University as a first-year student in 2018, drawn by the support and opportunities provided by the Young Scholars Program (YSP), which he joined as a sixth grader growing up in South Lorain. That support took on a whole new meaning three years later, however, when Mercado received life-changing news: cancer.

Unexpected paths can sometimes be the most beautiful ones - at least, Lena Dwidari thinks so. When the Human Development and Family Sciences major first came to The Ohio State University, art wasn't on her radar. She never would have guessed that as a fifth-year Young Scholar, she'd be commissioned to create glass art for a Fortune 500 business like the J.M. Smucker Company.

A Columbus native, Dwidari first got into 3D art in 2021, when she took a ceramics class to fulfill a core requirement. She enjoyed the course and decided to try her hand at glass blowing.

Old friendships were rekindled and new connections forged as the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) held Homecoming celebrations for alumni and supporters focused on the 35th Anniversary of the Young Scholars Program (YSP).

As an aspiring sports agent, Daechanea Williams has dreams of someday supporting athletes as they compete on the world's biggest stages. Thanks to the Young Scholars Program (YSP), however, Williams now has the opportunity to walk across another big stage: the Schottenstein Center's graduation stage as part of the Autumn 2023 commencement ceremony this December.