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Our Student Community welcomed an incredible guest speaker from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. Alice Bowman, The Mission Operations Manager (MOM) of the New Horizons Mission, joined students to talk about the historic mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

DriveOhio, an initiative of the Ohio Department of Transportation and the state’s hub for smart mobility technology on the ground and in the air, had two recent challenges for students to tackle in Rapid Innovation: supporting the growth of the advanced air mobility industry and addressing equity challenges to deploying electric vehicle charging stations.

The center begins a transition phase as Newton, who led the center in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs for seven years, has been named chief operating officer for BWX Technologies Inc. Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Kevin P. Cullen, assistant vice provost and director of Ohio State’s Military and Veterans Services, now serves as interim executive director.