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Cindy Tran Nguyen stars as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, the Musical

Meet the Asian American star of Legally Blonde, the Musical

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She’s not blonde, and she’s not a Gemini vegetarian. But third-year student Cindy Tran Nguyen is owning the role of Elle Woods, the California sorority…

Wow! signal

Did Ohio State really detect an alien signal?

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Humans have long scanned the vastness of space in search of intelligent extraterrestrial life.

Though the pursuit of aliens has largely come up…

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Q&A on Indigenous Peoples’ Day

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Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, is both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day. Ohio State recognized both holidays for the first time in 2018, and the…

Rob Gast marches on the field during TBDBITL reunion halftime performance during the Ohio State vs. Tulane football game on Saturday, Sept. 22.

Band alumnus with aphasia marches in TBDBITL reunion

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Rob Gast (right) stands with his fiancé, Matt Hall, at Ohio Stadium.

It was a brisk…

A cast of the Cryolophosaurus ellioti skeleton was installed at Orton Hall on Sept. 18, 2018.

A Dinosaur for Orton

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There’s a saying around the Orton Geological Museum: “Every 3rd grader is a paleontologist.”

When Orton Museum Director Bill Ausich and Curator…

Mike Bettes looks at the sky in front of The Weather Channel Tornado Hunt vehicle

Atmospheric sciences alum Mike Bettes describes whirlwind career after Ohio State

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On May 31, 2013, a 2.6 mile-wide tornado careened across the landscape near El Reno, Oklahoma…

Associate professors Jesse Kwiek (left) of microbiology and Thomas McDow of history at the STEAM Factory for an event that concludes their co-taught course on HIV. Photo courtesy Paul Woo, Wandering Woo Photography

History and microbiology professors co-teach course examining HIV

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It’s best to view a topic as expansive and nuanced as HIV through multiple lenses.

The course HIV: From Microbiology to Macrohistory does just…

Professor of design Paul Nini waves The People's Flag of Columbus in front of Columbus City Hall. Photo courtesy of Brian Kaiser.

Design professor proposes The People's Flag of Columbus

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What does a flag mean to a city?

In the United States, admittedly, not much. Cities don’t often rally behind their own flags.

But Paul…

Recreation of darknet drug market network. Red dots are vendors, yellow ones are buyers. Larger dots have engaged in more transactions.

The sociology of online criminal drug markets

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It’s a risky business buying illegal drugs, and more people are turning to the dark web to do so.

Accessible only through encrypted internet…