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Dec. 31

2019 High Points

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.
Countries where Arts and Sciences students studied abroad this summer are highlighted in red.
Aug. 28

Summer 2019 study abroad highlights

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.
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.
Heather Glon
July 17

PhD student dives into sea anemone research

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.

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.
University Hall spring
May 29

14 Arts and Sciences graduate students named Presidential Fellows

Awarded each semester to graduate students of outstanding scholarship, the Presidential Fellowship grants fellows one year of full-time financial support in their final year of dissertation work.
Dee Boersma, image courtesy Center for Ecosystem Sentinels
April 24

Zoology alumna has spent career saving penguins

For decades, Ohio State alumna Dee Boersma has been following the lives of penguins on the Galapagos Islands and on the shores of Punta Tombo, Argentina.

Forrest Schoessow, a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography, at Great Basin National Park in Nevada.
April 22

Geography PhD candidate travels the world to know the world

Forrest Schoessow, a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography, has trekked across the planet for years. He leads the Mountain Drone Team at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and studies glacial retreat in the Andes Mountains, which considered by some to be the frontlines of climate change.
Arctic (Oeneis) butterflies at the Museum of Biological Diversity
April 16

Triplehorn Insect Collection asks public to help label Arctic butterfl...

The Triplehorn Insect Collection at Ohio State is enlisting citizen scientists to help them digitize thousands of Arctic butterfly specimens.
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