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Did Ohio State really detect an alien signal?
Though the pursuit of aliens has largely come up empty, one strange discovery recorded by an Ohio State astronomer in 1977 continues to baffle scientists and stoke imaginations that maybe we aren't…
Ohio State astronomer helps detect historical stellar merger event
R. Mark Wagner, a research scientist in the Department of Astronomy, was part of an international team that identified an hourglass-shaped cloud floating in space as remnants of a 348-year-old…
Undergraduate’s love of nature and history fuels research in environmental archaeology
When Catherine Mendel was young, she would flip through her parents’ encyclopedia collection to the sections on world archaeology, dreaming of one day becoming an archaeologist herself. Years later,…
The Ohio Field School: Student research on-site in Scioto County
The Center for Folklore Studies at Ohio State is supporting, documenting and preserving local cultures through its Ohio Field School.
CAIDe Lab researcher Brittany Shoots-Reinhard joins Distracted Driving Task Force
Brittany Shoots-Reinhard, a researcher in CAIDe Lab who studies risk communication and decision making, was recently named to the Distracted Driving Task Force. The state initiative tries to…
Wysocki lab making huge advances in protein characterization
A $6.8 million NIH grant has established a Resource for Native Mass Spectrometry Guided Structural Biology at Ohio State under the direction of chemistry and biochemistry professor Vicki Wysocki.
Pursuing a passion for anthropology through the Summer Research Opportunities Program
The Big Ten Academic Alliance's Summer Research Opportunities Program has been dubbed a "gateway to graduate education."
$20 million NSF grant continues groundbreaking climate change research
Heather Allen, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is a researcher for the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment (CAICE) and studies how sea-spray aerosols…
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center expands research scope
Ohio State’s Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center is extending beyond its excellence in polar and alpine research to support the expanding scope of climate science across the university.