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The Department of Mathematics is spreading the word about recreational math through its outreach program, Buckeye Aha! Math Moments, which uses brainteaser puzzles to spark an interest in math among the community, especially children from underrepresented

Outreach group aims to inspire mathematical interest

The Department of Mathematics is gaining the public’s attention through its outreach program, Buckeye Aha! Math Moments (BAMM).

BAMM, created by visiting assistant professor Érika Roldán…

Hidden Figures course poster

New mathematics course connects students with Columbus’ own Hidden Figures

John Johnson Jr. and Ranthony Edmonds share a desire to understand access to mathematics for groups historically underrepresented in STEM. Edmonds, Ross Assistant…

Coral scientists with the Coral Bleaching Research Coordination Network

Network of global coral researchers converges at Ohio State

Coral reefs, dynamic underwater ecosystems made up of thousands of corals and other marine species, play an essential role within and above the sea.

They are vital to a quarter of marine…

Two faculty honored with Presidential Early Career Awards

Amanda Hummon, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Chuan Xue, associate professor of mathematics, were named recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and…

Heather Glon

PhD student dives into sea anemone research

PhD student Heather Glon has trouble keeping her head above water — mainly because her research requires her to travel around the world diving for sea anemones.

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14 Arts and Sciences graduate students named Presidential Fellows

Fourteen graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences have received a Spring 2019 Presidential Fellowship, the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School at Ohio State. Awarded…

Érika Roldán Roa teaches at a summer camp.

Mathematics outreach program teaches youth about the joys of math

Érika Roldán Roa remembers being introduced to the joy of mathematics through a book when she was younger.

The book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner and James Newman,…

Dee Boersma, image courtesy Center for Ecosystem Sentinels

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…

Arctic (Oeneis) butterflies at the Museum of Biological Diversity

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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