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Students in African American and African Studies in the 1970s | Photo courtesy of The Ohio State University Archives
Aug. 15

African American and African Studies Department at 50

Department celebrates 50 years of excellence this fall with events, reunions and more.
Michael White
July 31

Linguistics professor receives $2.4 million Facebook award

Michael White, professor of linguistics, has received a three-year, $2.4 million Collaborative Research award from Facebook to further his research on neural natural language generation.
Safaitic inscriptions on rocks in the Harrah.
July 29

M.S. Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies finds clues to unknown Arabic histo...

Ahmad Al-Jallad, M.S. Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies, is renowned as one of the world's experts on early Arabic texts. By exhaustively inspecting the hot, rocky deserts of North Arabia, he looks for inscriptions — some nearly 3,000 years old — that he hopes will reveal a history of the region that has been forgotten.
Clockwise from top left: Oajah Alcorn, Kiara Devese, Maria Khan and Ramona Stephenson
June 25

Arts and Sciences students receive Rising Star Awards

Four College of Arts and Sciences students were recently honored with Rising Star Awards from the college's Office of Undergraduate Recruitment.
Ohio State students learn about saplings they are about to plant during a field school in southern Louisiana. Photo credit: Mary Thomas
June 19

Climate change, humanities converge in Louisiana field school

Associate professors Thomas Davis of English and Mary Thomas of women’s, gender and sexuality studies recently took a group of students to a field school in southern Louisiana, where they grappled with environmental issues caused by climate change, Hurricane Katrina and fossil fuel extraction.
Deidre Hamlar
June 10

Deidre Hamlar named associate director of Ohio State’s African Ameri...

Lawyer, business administrator and independent curator Deidre Hamlar was named associate director of Ohio State’s African American and African Studies Community Extension Center.
Cynthia Clopper
June 10

Cynthia Clopper named chair of Department of Linguistics

Cynthia Clopper, professor in the Department of Linguistics, was named chair of the department, effective July 1, 2019. Clopper has served as interim chair since August 2018.
June 7

2019 Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professors

The College of Arts and Sciences announces its 2019 Distinguished College Professor awards.
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June 6

American Religious Sounds Project breaks new ground in religious studi...

A new resource developed by researchers at Ohio State and Michigan State, is breaking new ground in the area of religious studies by offering scholars and the public a new way to think about and explore the diversity of American religious life.
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