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Students Crunch and Conquer Datasets at Ohio State's First DataFest

93 undergraduates, 25 different majors in 5 colleges, competed for prizes during DataFest, an intense April weekend event. Hosted by statistics and the data analytics major, student teams feverishly…

Abraham K. Badu‐Tawiah

Chemist's DOE Early Career Award Funds Critical Energy Research

Chemist Abraham K. Badu-Tawiah's Early Career Award from DOE's Office of Science for his project, "Visible Light Photo-Catalysis in Charged Micro-Droplets," puts him in an elite group of the nation's…

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The Haiku of Microbes: served up on petri dishes

Kathleen Sandman, microbiology assistant professor and program specialist, uses innovative approaches to teaching microbiology undergraduates that both help them master the material and encourage…

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Look Up: Development of Concepts for NASA’s Next Flagship Telescope Begins; Two Ohio State Astronomers Lead Studies

NASA has announced four potential candidates for its 2030's "flagship astrophysics mission" and appointed two chairs to lead studies of each telescope. Brad Peterson, astronomy professor/chair…

Ratmir Timashev

Veeam Software Makes Gift of $5 Million to Advance Innovation in Chemical Physics and Data Analytics

Veeam® Software Corporation, co-founded by arts and sciences alumnus Ratmir Timashev (MS, chemical physics, 1995) and his partner Andrei Baronov, has made a gift of $5 million to the College of Arts…

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New $1.6 Million NIH/NIDCD Grant Supports Biochemist's Work on Hearing and Balance

Biochemist Marcos Sotomayor's research group just received a huge boost. Sotomayor's five-year $1,636,250 NIH/NIDCD allows the assistant professor and his postdocs, graduate and undergraduate…

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Department of Dance Students Perform in Brazil

Over spring break, a group of 11 dance majors—nine undergraduates and two graduate students—traveled to Salvador, Brazil to perform and engage with the rich Brazilian culture.

Dance major and 2nd place Denman winner Serena Chang

Thirty-eight ASC Students Earn Top Undergraduate Research Prizes

Arts and Sciences undergraduates — including aspiring dancers, writers and historians; physicists, Earth scientists and biologists; economists, psychologists and journalists — were among the top…

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Fletcher Ponders ‘Myths of the Academy’

Classics professor Richard Fletcher is musing, pondering and asking deep questions as part of his multi-faceted research project centered around the myths of Plato and supported by a generous Ronald…