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From Field to Fuel to Flight: Making Aviation Fuel from a Common Weed
The dream of creating viable biofuels to alleviate the world’s energy crisis is not new, but it has been elusive. Enter an Ohio State dream team with funding from a unique grant to transform…
Geographer Develops Go-To Power Outage Forecasts for Hurricane Matthew
Hurricane Matthew could knock out power for approximately 9-10 million people in the U.S., according to power outage forecasts developed by Ohio State’s Steve Quiring, atmospheric sciences professor…
Voxel Bay: ACCAD Students Partner with Nationwide Children’s Hospital to Create Virtual Reality Game to Comfort Young Patients
A pilot is underway for the virtual reality game, Voxel Bay, at the comprehensive hemophilia treatment center at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. The game was specifically designed to distract and…
Breaking Barriers with the Bard: Shakespeare and Autism
A new study showed improvement in the social and communication skills of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using a signature approach pairing the recitation of Shakespeare’s rhythmic…
40th Annual Waller Lecture Series: Graduate Students Keeping Pioneer Plant Scientist’s Legacy Alive
Graduate students have organized and presented the Annual Adolph E. Waller Memorial Lectures since 1976. Established by Waller’s bequest, these students (first botany, now molecular genetics) take…
NSF Research Training Group Grant Takes Ohio State Topology to Next Level
Mathematician Matthew Kahle is PI on a five-year, $1.72 million NSF Research Training Group Grant, supporting an interdisciplinary working group in algebraic topology, applied topology and related…
Biochemistry Professor's Award Supports Undergraduate Research
Edward Behr is one of just five senior scientists named recipients of the 2016 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Senior Scientist Mentor Program Award. The award provides a $20,000 grant to…
Chemist’s New NIH MIRA Grant a Game-Changer for Drug Discovery
David Nagib's new five-year, $1,749,619 NIH MIRA award allows his team to tackle and maximize ambitious, game-changing research impacting drug discovery. The chemistry and biochemistry assistant…
Arts and Sciences Launches New Environmental Humanities Program
A new Environmental Humanities Program, funded by an Arts and Humanities Divisional Grant and Ohio State's Humanities and the Arts Discovery Theme, seeks to position Ohio State as the leader in…