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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.

CK Vulpeculae, an hourglass-shaped cloud that formed after a brown dwarf and a white dwarf collided in 1670. Image courtesy ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. P. S. Eyres

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…

From left: Zachary Van Aernum, Sophie Harvey, Vicki Wysocki, Florian Busch, Benjamin Jones, Erin Panczyk

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.

Jennifer Cheavens

Q&A faculty spotlight: Jennifer Cheavens

When graduate and undergraduate students talk about Jennifer S. Cheavens, the words “best” and “favorite” come up often in reference to her teaching style and courses and to…

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Q&A faculty spotlight: Namiko Kunimoto

When Namiko Kunimoto joined Ohio State’s faculty in 2013, there were no Japanese art courses, and History of Photography had not been offered for many years. To remedy this…

David Steigerwald

Q&A faculty spotlight: David Steigerwald

History Professor David Steigerwald teaches courses in 20th Century America, ranging from WWI through the 1960s and is the director of the department's World War II Study Abroad…

An ice core retrieved from the Guliya Ice Cap in the Kunlun Mountains in Tibet in 2015. Photo by Giuliano Bertagna, courtesy of the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center.

Tibetan ice core could reveal more than 600,000 years of climate history

Researchers from The Ohio State University are studying the oldest ice core ever drilled outside the polar regions.

Hollie Nyseth Brehm

Q&A faculty spotlight: Hollie Nyseth Brehm

In 2016, Hollie Nyseth Brehm received both the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award and the Ohio State Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. In 2015, she…

Susan Cole

Q&A faculty spotlight: Susan Cole

In 2017, Susan Cole received the Ohio State Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Educational History

B.S. in Molecular Genetics, University of Rochester
Ph.D. in…