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Louis DiMauro, Edward E. and Sylvia Hagenlocker Chair and Professor of Physics, and his wife, Barbara DiMauro (left), at the 2018 Nobel Prize Banquet in Stockholm, Sweden.

Physics professor lights up 2018 Nobel Prize ceremony

While most of us were gearing up for a much-needed and well-deserved winter break, physics professor Louis Franklin DiMauro was en route to Stockholm, Sweden, to attend the 2018 Nobel Prize award…

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15 Arts and Sciences students named Presidential Fellows

Awarded each semester to graduate students of outstanding scholarship, the Presidential Fellowship gives fellows one year of full-time financial support.

Caitlyn Trevor plays the cello in the ACCAD Motion Lab.

School of Music PhD uses ACCAD Motion Lab to study performers' movement

How does a musician’s expressive movement influence how an audience perceives their performance?

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2018 High Points

The College of Arts and Sciences is excited share some of this year’s high points — from saving coral reefs to tracking criminal drug markets to extraordinary alumni achievements.

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Funding furthers research on connection between music, health

Meet Hannah Bachman and Daniel Shanahan, who are exploring the intersection of health and music, thanks to the generosity of college alumni, donors and friends.

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Machine learning helps predict endangered plant species

A new analytics approach co-developed by Bryan Carstens, professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology, identifies 15,000 at-risk plant species.

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Five Arts and Sciences faculty named 2018 AAAS Fellows

​Five Arts and Sciences faculty members have been elected as 2018 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — a prestigious honor bestowed upon AAAS members who are…

Quasar 3C 273 is one of the closest quasars to our home. It was the first quasar ever identified, by astronomer Allan Sandage in the 1960s. Quasars are intensely powerful centers of distant, active galaxies, powered by a huge disc of particles surrounding

Team involving Ohio State astronomer gets a close-up look at the whirlpool around gigantic black hole

For the first time, astronomers peered into the outskirts of the supermassive black hole at the center of quasar 3C 273.

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Presidential Fellow looks to the future – and the past

Colleen Cheverko has always been fascinated by the study of humans, but it wasn’t until halfway through her undergraduate career that she decided to study anthropology. Now, with a completed…