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New Arts and Sciences chairs and directors for 2020
Eight Arts and Sciences faculty have been appointed chairs or directors of units within the college.
Drone research to receive state funding
OFRN awarded $7.5 million in grants to six projects in round four of the organization’s Sustaining Ohio Aeronautical Readiness and Innovation Next Generation (SOARING) initiative that supports…
Dai's research could help predict future Alaskan landslide
Dai’s findings are part of a larger study funded by NASA that involves more than a dozen local, national and international scientists. They were so alarmed by their collective findings regarding the…
A physicist's 'strong interaction' with a new particle accelerator
The Electron-Ion Collider — set to be complete in 2030 — will smash electrons and protons together to give physicists a better idea of the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Yuri Kovchegov,…
Martini named fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute
Paul Martini, professor in the Department of Astronomy and Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, has been named a 2020–2021 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard…
Ohio State scientists part of new $3.7M project to advance nuclear physics experiments
Physics professor Richard Furnstahl, Distinguished University Professor of Physics Ulrich Heinz, and statistics professor Matthew Pratola are members of a new, NSF-funded project, the Bayesian…
Caring for others, caring for ourselves
A message from Wendy Smooth, associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion, and Gretchen Ritter, executive dean and vice provost, mourning the loss of George Floyd and responding to the ongoing…
$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.
Teaching the "hard history" of slavery and racism in America
Hasan Jeffries teaches students of all ages "hard history." Now, through support of fellow educators and the conversations he has with his daughters, he's encouraging a more complicated…