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Astronomer Leads Team Discovery of Hottest Known Planet
Astronomer Scott Gaudi is co-leader of an international team that has discovered the hottest planet ever. The discovered planet, KELT-9b is “so hot it stretches the definition of the word ‘planet,’”…
Moving Toward a “Quantum Leap”
A new five-year, $477,294 NSF CAREER Award supports Physics Assistant Professor Yuan-Ming Lu’s educational outreach and important research on developing new ways to detect and design topological…
Graduate Student Studies Social Behavior of Zoo-Housed Gorillas
Ashley Edes, a graduate student in anthropology, is the first to conduct a study on how zoo-housed gorillas’ social relationships can affect and decrease their stress levels over their lifetime.
Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Researchers Shine at 2017 Denman Forum
Forty Arts and Sciences undergraduates took top awards in 20 categories at the 22nd annual Denman Undergraduate Research Forum, held March 29.
The Aging Scientific Workforce
Economics Professors David Blau and Bruce Weinberg are authors of a new study finding that the science and engineering workforce in the U.S. has aged rapidly in recent years and that current trends…
ASC Faculty Awarded Grants from Battelle to Study Relationship Between Science and Technology
Four Arts and Sciences faculty members have been awarded a Battelle Engineering, Technology and Human Affairs (BETHA) Endowment Grant for their projects analyzing the complex relationship between…
DOE Funds Fundamental, Wide-Ranging, High-Energy Physics
The Department of Energy’s new three-year $5.65M grant to Ohio State’s High Energy Physics Group funds the research of eleven faculty members and their postdocs and graduate students on wide-ranging…
Psychology Professor First to Reveal How Brain Represents 3-D Information
Julie Golomb, assistant professor of psychology, is lead author of a new neuroimaging study revealing how different parts of the brain represent an object's location in depth compared to its 2D…
Building Better Medicine
A new, five-year, $700,00 NSF CAREER Award will help David Nagib, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, build better drugs. The grant funds critical work on Carbonyls, one of the most…