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Office of Research awards COVID-19 funding to Arts and Sciences studies

A new university funding program under the Office of Research that aims to rapidly address critical health and community problems related to COVID-19 has awarded funding to nine total research…

Elisabeth Root

Building bridges between Ohio State and the state health department

Elisabeth Root, an associate professor in the Department of Geography and the College of Public Health's Division of Epidemiology, is helping guide Ohio through the COVID-19 pandemic as a member of…

Goldwater scholarship recipients

Three arts and sciences students receive 2020 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships

Arts and Sciences juniors Emily Osborne, Eitan Rothberg and Sarthak Shah have received the most prestigious national award for undergraduate researchers in science, math and engineering.

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Astronomy postdoc and alumnus receive NASA Hubble Fellowships

Visiting Scholar David Martin and PhD graduate Tom Holoien join the 2020 NASA Hubble Fellowship Program, which enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research across NASA.

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Science Sundays goes online

Science Sundays, one of the premier outreach events of Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences, is bringing cutting-edge research presented by outstanding speakers into people’s homes.

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EEOB professor’s research to tackle problems measuring biodiversity change

We’ve all heard about dwindling biodiversity across the planet, but it turns out scientists have a difficult time actually verifying it. This summer, Assistant Professor Marta Jarzyna is leading a…

Raymond Goodrich in a lab

Chemistry grad on the front lines of COVID-19 vaccine research

As executive director of the Infectious Disease Research Center (IDRC) at Colorado State University, Goodrich oversees a giant facility that is working feverishly to develop a vaccine for the…

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Anthropology PhD student Zooms through dissertation defense

Rather than postpone his dissertation defense for weeks or possibly longer, Padgett and the committee decided to continue with March 20. He would defend his dissertation remotely from Hawaii as…

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ABRC combating plant blindness, educating on climate change

An often-overlooked plant with a hard-to-pronounce name is helping to grow students’ understanding of the impacts of climate change.