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Exterior of new School of Music building

$17M gift supports Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences, largest by an individual in college’s history

The gift will support several Ohio State initiatives, including new music building to be named after alumnus Ratmir Timashev and his family.

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Jordan Davis and the Buckeyes behind Can't Stop Columbus

Alumna Jordan Davis wanted to do more to help Columbus respond to the coronavirus, and a group of Buckeyes from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Fisher College of Business helped make her…

Christopher Otter

Otter named 2020 Guggenheim Fellow

Associate professor of history Christopher Otter was awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. English alumna Aimee Nezhukumatathil, who is currently a professor at the University of Mississippi, also…

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Social distancing book recommendations

In a new era of isolation and social distancing brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, we turn to a medium most comforting: books. As such, faculty and friends of the Department of English have shared…

Alex McCarthy

Geography alum coordinating local county's emergency response to COVID-19

Geography alumnus Alex McCarthy serves as the director of the Tuscarawas County Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, and he's helping guide his community through the COVID-19 crisis.

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Astronomy postdoc and alumnus receive NASA Hubble Fellowships

Visiting Scholar David Martin and PhD graduate Tom Holoien join the 2020 NASA Hubble Fellowship Program, which enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research across NASA.

Raymond Goodrich in a lab

Chemistry grad on the front lines of COVID-19 vaccine research

As executive director of the Infectious Disease Research Center (IDRC) at Colorado State University, Goodrich oversees a giant facility that is working feverishly to develop a vaccine for the…

Jessica Alcalde

Liberal arts and entrepreneurship entwine in alumna's leather goods store

Jessica Alcalde learned how to think flexibly and creatively earning her BFA in painting in 2009. Now, she's implementing her experience into a new endeavor: her recently launched leather goods store…

"Dream of Hope" concert in the 16th Street Baptist Church

Alumnus shares unifying music through 'Dreams of Hope'

When Henry Panion III was commissioned to put on a concert featuring violins restored from Holocaust concentration camps — known as the Violins of Hope — in Birmingham, Alabama, he wanted to design a…