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David Weinberg awarded 2021 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
David Weinberg, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Astronomy, has won the 2021 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics for his research surrounding modern large-scale astronomical…
Q&A: With support from Google, political science professor to counteract vaccine misinformation
Thomas Wood, assistant professor of political science, is using a share of a $450,000 gift from Google to study how fact-checking can counter misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
Four Arts and Sciences faculty named 2020 highly cited researchers
Four faculty members in the Ohio State College of Arts and Sciences have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2020 list from Clarivate. The list identifies researchers who demonstrated…
A new way to detect subatomic particles from deep space
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…
Forest sustainability: How Maya social norms affect ecology
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…
What election polls actually tell us about the 2020 presidential race
As President Donald Trump’s 2016 victory revealed, any prediction can still be turned upside down once the votes are counted. How trustworthy are polls in reality?
LaserNetUS high-power laser consortium including Ohio State receives $18M from the Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded LaserNetUS, a network of facilities operating ultra-powerful lasers that includes Ohio State's Scarlet Laser Facility, $18 million in new funding to…
Suchland examines links between abolition and modern day slavery
Jennifer Suchland, a 2020 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Scholars and Society Fellow, is researching the links between historical and modern-day slavery in collaboration with the…
Ohio State-led QuSTEAM initiative to transform U.S. quantum education
QuSTEAM, an initiative funded by the National Science Foundation, is a multi-institutional program led by Ohio State that works together with industry and national laboratories to revamp…