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Safaitic inscriptions on rocks in the Harrah.

M.S. Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies finds clues to unknown Arabic history

Ahmad Al-Jallad, M.S. Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies, is renowned as one of the world's experts on early Arabic texts. By exhaustively inspecting the hot, rocky deserts of North Arabia, he looks for…

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PhD student dives into sea anemone research

Evolution, ecology and organismal biology doctoral student Heather Glon is studying evolution and diversity in sea anemones, which she’s trekked the northern hemisphere to find.

Ohio State students learn about saplings they are about to plant during a field school in southern Louisiana. Photo credit: Mary Thomas

Climate change, humanities converge in Louisiana field school

Associate professors Thomas Davis of English and Mary Thomas of women’s, gender and sexuality studies recently took a group of students to a field school in southern Louisiana, where they grappled…

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14 Arts and Sciences graduate students named Presidential Fellows

Awarded each semester to graduate students of outstanding scholarship, the Presidential Fellowship grants fellows one year of full-time financial support in their final year of dissertation work.

Dee Boersma, image courtesy Center for Ecosystem Sentinels

Zoology alumna has spent career saving penguins

For decades, Ohio State alumna Dee Boersma has been following the lives of penguins on the Galapagos Islands and on the shores of Punta Tombo, Argentina.

Forrest Schoessow, a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography, at Great Basin National Park in Nevada.

Geography PhD candidate travels the world to know the world

Forrest Schoessow, a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography, has trekked across the planet for years. He leads the Mountain Drone Team at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and studies…

Arctic (Oeneis) butterflies at the Museum of Biological Diversity

Triplehorn Insect Collection asks public to help label Arctic butterflies

The Triplehorn Insect Collection at Ohio State is enlisting citizen scientists to help them digitize thousands of Arctic butterfly specimens.

First light picture of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)

Ohio State helps dark energy instrument's lenses see the night sky for the first time

DESI project reaches important milestone with Ohio State researchers Mark Derwent, Klaus Honscheid, Paul Martini, Ashley Ross and David Weinberg.

Associate history professor Hasan Jeffries and his students at James Madison's Montpelier. Photo credit Karla Haddad.

Field school sheds light on history of slavery and its modern manifestations

A group of undergraduate students recently partook in a field school that examined the history of slavery and racism. Students explored the home and plantation of former U.S. President James Madison…