Anthony Kaldellis has been appointed to serve as chair of the Department of Classics, beginning July 1, 2017. Kaldellis joined the faculty of Ohio State’s Department of Greek and Latin (now Classics) in 2001. He was promoted to professor in 2007 with a courtesy appointment in history.
Molecular Genetics Professor Anita Hopper’s four-year, $840,000 NIH grant supports work expected to shed light on fundamental cellular processes affecting human health, such as gene mutations in tRNA biology, which cause cancer and metabolic and neuromuscular diseases.
Aphasia — a language disorder that affects the ability to communicate — usually occurs suddenly, often following a stroke or head injury. Ohio State's Aphasia Initiative offers free structured group sessions to help persons living with aphasia learn to communicate again.
Statistics Professor Kate Calder leads a team of Ohio State researchers conducting a five-year study of adolescent health in an urban environment. The study is funded by a $1,553,888 grant from NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Astronomer Scott Gaudi is co-leader of an international team that has discovered the hottest planet ever. The discovered planet, KELT-9b is “so hot it stretches the definition of the word ‘planet,’” Gaudi says.
Kris Gremillion has been appointed to serve as chair of the Department of Anthropology. Her appointment begins on June 1, 2017.
On April 1 — no fooling — 111 undergraduates from across campus formed teams and began a weekend marathon of heavy-duty data-crunching, competing for prizes in Ohio State's 2nd annual DataFest. Fueled by free food and freed of classroom pressure, they crunched their data and solved problems with gusto.
A new five-year, $477,294 NSF CAREER Award supports Physics Assistant Professor Yuan-Ming Lu’s educational outreach and important research on developing new ways to detect and design topological orders to look at emerging particles that could be used to implement fault-tolerant “topological quantum computation.”
The Clintonville Community Resource Center (CRC) recently received a grant to help combat childhood obesity and make improvements to the children’s education area of the food pantry. They partnered with Ohio State Department of Design to improve the space.
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