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The skeletal remains of an individual from a site in Chile.

Hubbe's research on skeletons reveals ancient population exchanges between North and South America

A study produced by an international team of researchers, including Mark Hubbe, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, sheds light on how ancient North American populations migrated…

Wow! signal

Did Ohio State really detect an alien signal?

Though the pursuit of aliens has largely come up empty, one strange discovery recorded by an Ohio State astronomer in 1977 continues to baffle scientists and stoke imaginations that maybe we aren't…

Marcus Kurtz

Marcus Kurtz named director of Undergraduate International Studies Program

Marcus Kurtz, professor of political science, has been named director of the Undergraduate International Studies Program (UISP), effective Jan. 1, 2019.

CK Vulpeculae, an hourglass-shaped cloud that formed after a brown dwarf and a white dwarf collided in 1670. Image courtesy ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. P. S. Eyres

Ohio State astronomer helps detect historical stellar merger event

R. Mark Wagner, a research scientist in the Department of Astronomy, was part of an international team that identified an hourglass-shaped cloud floating in space as remnants of a 348-year-old…

From left: Zachary Van Aernum, Sophie Harvey, Vicki Wysocki, Florian Busch, Benjamin Jones, Erin Panczyk

Wysocki lab making huge advances in protein characterization

A $6.8 million NIH grant has established a Resource for Native Mass Spectrometry Guided Structural Biology at Ohio State under the direction of chemistry and biochemistry professor Vicki Wysocki.

Jennifer Cheavens

Q&A faculty spotlight: Jennifer Cheavens

When graduate and undergraduate students talk about Jennifer S. Cheavens, the words “best” and “favorite” come up often in reference to her teaching style and courses and to Cheavens as a human…

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Q&A faculty spotlight: Namiko Kunimoto

When Namiko Kunimoto joined Ohio State’s faculty in 2013, there were no Japanese art courses, and History of Photography had not been offered for many years. To remedy this required her to…

David Steigerwald

Q&A faculty spotlight: David Steigerwald

History Professor David Steigerwald teaches courses in 20th Century America, ranging from WWI through the 1960s and is the director of the department's World War II Study Abroad…

An ice core retrieved from the Guliya Ice Cap in the Kunlun Mountains in Tibet in 2015. Photo by Giuliano Bertagna, courtesy of the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center.

Tibetan ice core could reveal more than 600,000 years of climate history

Researchers from The Ohio State University are studying the oldest ice core ever drilled outside the polar regions.