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Intergenerational workshops help children showcase heritage through book series Bigger Than Me: My Story, My Culture

By Braden Moles

A local intergenerational workshop series is helping children in central Ohio connect with their history by writing self-published books that tell stories of their unique heritage.

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Study reveals new source of the heavy elements

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study. 

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Tyiesha Radford Shorts Selected as Next Urban Arts Space Community Artist-in-Residence

History, art, and activism converge in the works of Urban Arts Space’s newest Community Artist-in-Residence, Tyiesha Radford Shorts. The UAS Community Artist-in-Residence program is now…

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Four Arts and Sciences faculty members join American Academy of Arts & Sciences

By Christina Dierkes

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced the election of its new members for 2025, which includes four faculty members from The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences…

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Researching white women in the slave trade led to unique opportunity for economics undergraduate

By James Grega

Undergraduate research in higher education institutions isn’t rare. However, an undergraduate student being listed as a first author on a paper cited in The New York Times is significantly less…

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Tropical mountain ice cores help decipher climate riddles in Earth’s history

Scientists are working to shed new light on an enduring climate mystery – one that, if solved, could help them make more accurate predictions about the planet’s future.

In a new study, data…

Super-Earths are a class of strange alien worlds that researchers are quickly learning more about.

Astronomers find Earth-like exoplanets common across the cosmos

Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than…

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A dual-degree success: Tomaz Neves-Garcia’s path from USP to Ohio State

Tomaz Neves-Garcia’s scientific journey has taken him from São Paulo to Ohio, with stops in the United Kingdom and Spain along the way. During his undergraduate studies at the University of São…

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Acclaimed paleoartist speaks at Ohio State

When reconstructing the face of a recently deceased individual, scientists can use data from human cadavers and living people. But how do you reconstruct a face that’s more than 140,00 years old?…