When graduate and undergraduate students talk about Jennifer S. Cheavens, the words “best” and “favorite” come up often in reference to her teaching style and courses and to Cheavens as a human being. In 2017, Cheavens was honored with the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.
In her first few years on faculty, Namiko Kunimoto developed a half-dozen new courses in Japanese art and History of Photography. In 2018, Kunimoto was awarded the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, which is given to faculty for their superior teaching.
The education that Ashley Bartman Watson received at Ohio State covers the spectrum of the arts and sciences. “Chemistry, and the analytical background it gave me, has always been the foundation for my progress, even when pursuing artistic interests," Bartman said.
While still in high school, Ben Leubitz began producing and promoting DIY metal, punk, and hip hop shows with the sole motivation of being able to attend the concerts. With his minor in Music, Media and Enterprise, Ben has encountered many opportunities in the music industry.
Lauren Yapalater is a senior writer and celebrity editor for the social news and entertainment website BuzzFeed. She covers topics ranging from pop culture and entertainment to general current events.
Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor in the Departments of English and of Spanish and Portuguese. He teaches courses on Latino and Latin American cultural phenomena, including literature, film, TV, music, sports, video games and comic books.
History Professor David Steigerwald teaches courses in twentieth century America, ranging from WWI through the 1960s and is the director of the department's World War II Study Abroad program. In 2017, the College of Arts and Sciences awarded Steigerwald with the Outstanding Teaching Award.
Elizabeth Riggs, a film studies and communication double major, traveled to Berlin, Germany Summer 2017 to take part in the Berlin Then and Now: People, Places, Experiences Program.
Susan Cole, associate professor of molecular genetics, received the Ohio State Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching 2017, for her outstanding abilities as a researcher and how they empower her teaching.
Annie Zhang, microbiology major and graduating senior, won first place at the 2017 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum for work evaluating the accuracy of a low-cost diagnostic test for drug-resistant TB.
In April, data analytics major Brett Bejcek participated in Ohio State’s second annual DataFest, and, for the second time, was on a winning team. He is now completing a Data Science for Social Good Fellowship in Seattle.
Emma Baranski, a fourth-year from Connecticut, is studying arts management with a minor in dance. She is part of Ohio State’s synchronized swim team. This summer Baranski is moving to Northern California to train for the world synchronized swimming championships.
Casey Clark is an undergraduate student in the School of Earth Sciences, pursuing the school’s subprogram in petroleum geology and geophysics with a business minor in the Fisher College of Business. He plays snare drum in The Ohio State University Marching Band, works at the Columbus Zoo and is traveling to Utah this summer for geology field camp.
Jeffery Koebel is volunteering for his tenth Buck-I-SERV trip this May, traveling to Cape Town, South Africa. Koebel is a fourth-year student majoring in strategic communication with a minor in women’s, gender and sexuality studies from Old Fort, Ohio.
Seth Lyon is a third-year biochemistry major from Marion, Ohio. His research project involving RNAs won first-place at the 2017 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. Biochemistry Professor Venkat Gopalan is his research advisor.
Kaeli Hughes from Worthington, Ohio, is a graduating senior majoring in physics. Her research project on neutrinos won second-place at the 2017 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. Physics Associate Professor Amy Connolly is her research advisor.
Farhad Choksy is a fourth-year senior, majoring in political science. From Irvine, California, Choksy is keenly interested in voter behavior, political psychology and the orle of big data and government. He recently placed first in the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum.
Kaitlyn Holzer is a third-year studying Arabic and political science. Holzer studied abroad in Morocco through Ohio State's Global May program.
When graduate and undergraduate students talk about Jennifer S. Cheavens, the words “best” and “favorite” come up often in reference to her teaching style and courses and to Cheavens as a human being. In 2017, Cheavens was honored with the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.
In her first few years on faculty, Namiko Kunimoto developed a half-dozen new courses in Japanese art and History of Photography. In 2018, Kunimoto was awarded the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, which is given to faculty for their superior teaching.
Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor in the Departments of English and of Spanish and Portuguese. He teaches courses on Latino and Latin American cultural phenomena, including literature, film, TV, music, sports, video games and comic books.
History Professor David Steigerwald teaches courses in twentieth century America, ranging from WWI through the 1960s and is the director of the department's World War II Study Abroad program. In 2017, the College of Arts and Sciences awarded Steigerwald with the Outstanding Teaching Award.
Susan Cole, associate professor of molecular genetics, received the Ohio State Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching 2017, for her outstanding abilities as a researcher and how they empower her teaching.
Hollie Nyseth Brehm, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, focuses her current research on why and how genocide happens and how countries rebuild in the aftermath. In 2016, Brehm received both the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award and the Ohio State Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Kyoung Lee Swearingen, an assistant professor in the Department of Design, has worked in the film industry for the last decade as a technical director of lighting at Pixar Animation Studios and DNA Productions. She has worked on features and shorts including Ratatouille, Wall-E, UP, Cars 2, Toy Story 3, Brave, Monsters University, and more.
Lauren Pond, a staff multimedia producer in the Center for the Study of Religion, won the 2016 Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography for her color series, Test of Faith. Her photography project, in progress since 2011, documents a family of Pentecostal serpent handlers in West Virginia.
Thomas Wood studies political campaigns and their effects on voters’ attitudes and behavior. Wood recently worked as director of experiments and modeling for the Jeb Bush presidential campaign. He teaches "Voters and Elections." He discusses his experience during the Republican presidential primary and assesses student interest elections.
The education that Ashley Bartman Watson received at Ohio State covers the spectrum of the arts and sciences. “Chemistry, and the analytical background it gave me, has always been the foundation for my progress, even when pursuing artistic interests," Bartman said.
While still in high school, Ben Leubitz began producing and promoting DIY metal, punk, and hip hop shows with the sole motivation of being able to attend the concerts. With his minor in Music, Media and Enterprise, Ben has encountered many opportunities in the music industry.
Lauren Yapalater is a senior writer and celebrity editor for the social news and entertainment website BuzzFeed. She covers topics ranging from pop culture and entertainment to general current events.
“Being an artist is so rewarding but I wish I had taken the business side of things a bit more seriously when I developed my practice.”
Since graduating from Ohio State in 2015 with a degree in actuarial science, Paul Hopler has become co-founder and self-described “numbers aficionado” of Keep It Simple Socks, a local Columbus brand dedicated to creating unique socks for both work and play.
Alumnus Sam Bodary talks about his experience in transferring to Ohio State and some of his accomplishments at the university.
Alumnus Johnny Greco talks about why he transferred to Ohio State and how he succeeded with his science majors.
Michelle Maguire is an Ohio State alumna who works for the Department of History of Art as associate curator in the Visual Resources Library. She and her husband, Aaron Beck, recently created a limited-edition artist’s book about her easily unimpressed Great-Aunt Doll, Salami Dreamin’.
JM Rayburn (BA, Portuguese and International Studies, 2009) spends his days building a stronger Columbus through his interests in urban planning and community development. A licensed realtor, Rayburn is also deeply involved with sustainability initiatives including the Columbus Green Team and EcoDublin.
For 30 years, research partners Lonnie Thompson (PhD, geology, 1976) and Ellen Mosley-Thompson (PhD, geography, 1979) have traveled the globe gathering clues to get a more definitive picture of our planet’s climate system. They’ve retrieved ice cores that contain a diary of past climate conditions, some dating back to the last ice age.
In March 2012, eight Ohio State students accompanied WWII veterans returning to four Pacific islands, including Iwo Jima.
Ohio State alumnus Steve Martino works to create groundbreaking — and very funny — computer animated films at Blue Sky Studios, where he recently co-directed Ice Age: Continental Drift.
When Sara Santiago walked through the doors at Ohio State, she never imagined that she would find herself in a remote village in Honduras living among the indigenous Tawahka and Miskito assessing the impact of a dam project on their quality of life.
Ohio State’s high energy density physics SCARLET Laser Lab in the College of Arts and Sciences is one of only a handful of such labs in the nation.
While at Ohio State, Tabor has had many experiences that affirmed his choice. Tabor had the opportunity of a lifetime: to relive history through the eyes of real World War II heroes. Paired with veterans returning to four Pacific island battle sites, the students were charged with recording their stories.
Until last summer, fieldwork and experience in archaeological methodology eluded Jones – she had never been outside the United States. However, Jones was awarded a Keith and Linda Monda International Experience Scholarship to study abroad at The Field School in Medieval Archaeology and Bioarchaeology at Badia Pozzeveri over the summer of 2012.
Using a new ultrafast camera, Ohio State College of Arts and Sciences physicist Louis DiMauro recorded the first real-time image of two atoms vibrating in a molecule — a discovery with important long-term applications.
Hines, who works as a paramedic in Lancaster, Ohio, was the third recipient of a full, renewable scholarship personally funded by former President Gordon Gee.
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