Students in the College of Arts and Sciences aren't just returning to the classroom in autumn 2021. They're returning to the field. In the School of Earth Sciences, few things symbolize this renewal quite like the resumption of two eye-opening field experiences that were both cancelled in 2020.
Steven Prohira is a neutrino hunter. The postdoctoral researcher at Ohio State's Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics is principal investigator on a new project, the NSF-funded Radar Echo Telescope, which uses radar to detect neutrinos, tiny particles key to understanding the mysteries of the universe.
Sean Downey, associate professor of anthropology and core faculty member of Ohio State's Sustainability Institute, explores how social and cultural norms among Maya farmers in Belize impact local ecology, help regulate forest use and promote sustainability.
Ohio State is one of 14 universities from around the globe that have been awarded $12.5 million from the National Science Foundation to launch a new Biology Integration Institute called EMERGE, which will focus on better understanding ecosystem and climate interactions like the thawing of the Arctic permafrost.
Between tales of world exploration, scholarly breakthroughs, cutting-edge research and investments in our future, this past year was one to remember. The College of Arts and Sciences shares some of 2019's high points.
Summer 2019 was packed with adventure for the hundreds of Ohio State Arts and Sciences students who broke down traditional classroom barriers to study around the world.
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.
Evolution, ecology and organismal biology doctoral student Heather Glon is studying evolution and diversity in sea anemones, which she’s trekked the northern hemisphere to find.
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.
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