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College of Arts and Sciences faculty members Sampada Aranke and Allison Bean discuss their research and what inspires them inside and outside of the classroom.  

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Erin Murray poses on a rock formation in Norway

Student explores ecology impacts in Norway through Ohio State global research program

In a remote Norwegian field station, Erin Murray spent a month with a research team studying the impacts of noise from a nearby offshore windfarm upon key species of the local aquatic food chain…

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Digital project grant funds open-access map creation of Shakespearean London

By James Grega

Professor Highley’s project creates map overlays to provide viewers a more comprehensive view of what Shakespearean London looked like, compared to different eras in the modern city.

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the language lab at COSI

The complicated question of how we determine who has an accent

How do you tell if someone has a particular accent?  It might seem obvious: You hear someone pronounce words in a way that is different from “normal” and connect it to other people from a…

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‘Junk’ RNA segments play role in protein production, cell stress response

Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing production of certain messenger RNAs and appear to help cells respond to…

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