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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 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.
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…
Undergraduate’s love of nature and history fuels research in environmental archaeology
When Catherine Mendel was young, she would flip through her parents’ encyclopedia collection to the sections on world archaeology, dreaming of one day becoming an archaeologist herself. Years later,…
The Ohio Field School: Student research on-site in Scioto County
The Center for Folklore Studies at Ohio State is supporting, documenting and preserving local cultures through its Ohio Field School.
Arts and Sciences Excellence in Graduate Education
The College of Arts and Sciences is a community of excellence, and nowhere is this more evident than in our graduate education programs. Home to 2,936 students who are advancing their education at a…
CAIDe Lab researcher Brittany Shoots-Reinhard joins Distracted Driving Task Force
Brittany Shoots-Reinhard, a researcher in CAIDe Lab who studies risk communication and decision making, was recently named to the Distracted Driving Task Force. The state initiative tries to…
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.
Q&A on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Daniel Rivers, associate professor of history and director of the American Indian Studies program, offers his insight about Native American history in Ohio and the origins of Indigenous Peoples' Day.