Professor Darla Munroe, chair of the Department of Geography, studies land economics and human geography, with a focus on human environment interactions at a landscape level. She joins David Staley on this week's Voices of Excellence, to discuss her work on the forests of southeast Ohio and the methodological distinctions between economists and geographers, among other topics.

Yuri Kovchegov, professor of physics at The Ohio State University, studies quantum chromodynamics at high energy and nuclear theory and was recently named to the 2020 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He breaks down some of the intricacies of quantum mechanics with David Staley on this week's Voices of Excellence

Associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures Jennifer Suchland is a 2020 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Scholars and Society Fellow. She describes how the role of scholars in society is also the role of education in society, especially democracies. Her current research focuses on the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, which she discusses with David Staley on this week's Voices of Excellence

When dance professor Susan Van Pelt Petry began working from home due to the pandemic, her interest in staying hopeful as an artist led her to begin creating 19 choreographed videos, aka 19ChoreOVIDs, a play on COVID-19. She describes these videos and more of her work with David Staley on this week's Voices of Excellence

Voices of Excellence will release its 100th episode on November 18. Join host David Staley as Olivia Miltner from ASC Marketing and Communication talks to him about interviewing dozens of faculty members in the college of arts and sciences, what he's learned about interdisciplinarity in the college and what he hopes listeners gain from the podcast. For more of her discussion with David Staley, listen to this week's Voices of Excellence

Joni Acuff is an associate professor, graduate studies chair, and diversity chair in the department of arts administration, education and policy. Recently, she's been researching the collective work of artists and art educators of color, with an eye to recognizing and supporting emerging social justice collectives and coalitions. For more of her discussion with David Staley, listen to this week's Voices of Excellence

Holly Nibert, associate professor of Hispanic linguistics and language program director in the department of Spanish and Portuguese, researches phonology and phonetics, the acquisition of a second language sound system, and the principles and practices of second language classroom instruction. Recently, she's been writing a book about how to be a language program director, in an effort to help professionalize the position. For more of her discussion with David Staley, listen to this week's Voices of Excellence

Associate Professor Treva Lindsey of the department of women's, gender and sexuality studies specializes in African American women's history, black popular and expressive culture, black feminism(s), hip hop studies, critical race and gender theory, and sexual politics. She researched black women's beauty culture by delving into newspapers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries for ads to learn how products were advertised, who advertised them, and who were the models, among other questions. For more of her discussion with David Staley, listen to this week's Voices of Excellence

Scott Swearingen, assistant professor in the department of design, studies game design, collaborative gaming, and animation, and worked as a game designer on award-winning games and franchises, including Medal of Honor, the Simpsons, and the Sims. He talks with David Staley about how games define our culture and why he values face-to-face interactions that games can engage. Listen to his discussion with David Staley on this week's Voices of Excellence

Jennifer Brello, clinical associate professor in the department of speech and hearing science, serves as the director of the Ohio State University Aphasia Initiative, a free program for people living with loss of communication ability due to brain injury. Aphasia can make mundane tasks like ordering a cup of coffee very challenging, and Brello describes to host David Staley the benefits of therapy at the institute on this week's episode of Voices of Excellence