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The Haiku of Microbes: served up on petri dishes
Kathleen Sandman has always used innovative approaches to teaching microbiology to undergraduates, both majors and non-majors.
One of the courses she teaches is the introductory microbiology…

Eleven ASC Scholars and Teachers Receive 2016 Distinguished OAA Awards
Eleven Arts and Sciences scholars and teachers — covering the diverse range of disciplines in arts and humanities, natural and physical sciences and social and behavioral sciences — won top…

Evolutionary Biologist Teaches Graduate Students How to Tell a Visual Story
Andi Wolfe, an evolutionary biologist and associate professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology (EEOB), is also a professional photographer and wood-turner. She…

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…

Arts and Sciences Graduate Programs Rank Among Nation’s Top
Five graduate disciplines within the College of Arts and Sciences are newly ranked among the nation’s top, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 edition of “America’s Best Graduate…

New Course Offers an Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change
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Climate change has been called the world’s greatest threat, and…

Adriana Dawes' NSF CAREER Award Supports Cell Biology Research
Adriana Dawes, assistant professor of mathematics and molecular genetics, has received the top award given by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in support the work of the nation’s most…
ASC Students Named Churchill Scholars
Two arts and sciences senior honors students, Alexis Crockett (neuroscience and psychology) and Henry Tran (chemistry and mathematics), have been named 2016 Churchill Scholars.
The Winston…

Astronomers May Have Discovered the Most Powerful Supernova
An international team of astronomers including Professors Krzysztof Stanek, Christopher Kochanek and Todd Thompson in Ohio State's Department of Astronomy may have discovered the largest…