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Zoology alumna has spent career saving penguins
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Dee Boersma has been called the Jane Goodall of penguins.
An adorably curious, roughly 2-foot-tall Magellanic penguin she’s named Turbo greets…
Geography PhD candidate travels the world to know the world
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Forrest Schoessow, a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography, stands on a glacier…
Triplehorn Insect Collection asks public to help label Arctic butterflies
Butterflies are among the many species vulnerable to climate change, with even slight shifts in environment affecting the distribution and flight patterns of certain populations.
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Ohio State helps dark energy instrument's lenses see the night sky for the first time
On April 1 the dome of the Mayall Telescope near Tucson, Arizona, opened to the night sky, and starlight poured through the assembly of six large lenses that were carefully packaged and aligned…
Field school sheds light on history of slavery and its modern manifestations
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Associate Professor Hasan Jeffries and his students stand outside James Madison's…
2018 High Points
The College of Arts and Sciences is home to extraordinary artists, scholars, scientists and spaces. We are excited to share some of this year’s high points as we look forward to another year…
Undergraduate’s love of nature and history fuels research in environmental archaeology
When fourth-year anthropology student Catherine Mendel was young, she would flip through her parents’ encyclopedia collection to the sections on world archaeology. She would read the pages over…
The Ohio Field School: Student research on-site in Scioto County
Folklore isn’t all old wives tales and urban legends — it’s about documenting cultures and communities here and now. That’s why the Center for Folklore Studies (CFS) at Ohio State has been…
Pursuing a passion for anthropology through the Summer Research Opportunities Program
Nearly 35 years ago, the Big Ten Academic Alliance founded the Summer Research Opportunities Program to connect underrepresented students from across the nation with valuable research experience…