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Dance Student’s Senior Project Hosts a “Day of Dance” for Children
Dana Schafer, a senior dance major, invited 70 third graders from Starling STEM School in Franklinton to Sullivant Hall to participate in a “Day of Dance” last December. The day focused on community…
Biochemist Named 2015 Sloan Fellow
Marcos Sotomayor, assistant professor, chemistry and biochemistry, is one of a select group of 126 promising early-career scientists and scholars from the United States and Canada named 2015 Sloan…
Federal Ed Reforms May Backfire, Undermining Public Support
A major overhaul of federal education policy enacted with the goal of improving public education and closing the achievement gap between student subgroups may have backfired, undermining public…
Mathematician/Computer Scientist Granted NSF CAREER Award for “Geometric frontiers in algorithm design”
Mathematician/computer scientist Anastasios (Tasos) Sidiropoulos' CAREER award funds a project that will look at the use of diverse mathematical tools in the setting of geometric data analysis,…
COMPAS 2015-16: Sustainability
Ohio State's Center for Ethics and Human Values has selected the theme of Sustainability for its 2015-16 COMPAS Program
Mathematician Receives Five-year, $445,000 NSF CAREER Award
Mathematician Daniel Thompson's new NSF CAREER Award will support his core research program in pure mathematics and develop connections to the applied setting of bioinformatics. It also supports…
African American children in gifted education classrooms; dialect use and vocabulary understanding
Monique Mills, assistant professor, Speech and Hearing Science, is the author of a new study, “Narrative Performance of Gifted African American School-Aged Children From Low-Income Backgrounds,”…
Sociologist Says Confidence in Government Plays Role in Decision to Vaccinate
Kent Schwirian, professor of sociology, is coauthor of a new study suggesting that for some people, the resistance to vaccinations may be rooted in a mistrust of the government.