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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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
Four BETHA Grants Awarded to College of Arts and Sciences Projects
Four of the six proposals chosen for funding in the 2016 Battelle Engineering, Technology and Human Affairs (BETHA) Endowment annual grant competition are from the College of Arts and Sciences.
New Course Offers an Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change
Beginning this fall, Ohio State students will have an opportunity to study climate change from multiple angles through a first-of-it kind interdisciplinary course.