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Q&A faculty spotlight: Kendra McSweeney
Kendra McSweeney has received the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, which is given to faculty for their superior teaching; the Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor…

Chemistry earns Bridge Site status from American Chemical Society
Cementing and strengthening a relationship that began last year, the American Chemical Society (ACS) has named Ohio State’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry a Bridge Site beginning in 2020…

Tracking Lake Erie's harmful algal blooms upstream
A man scoops up thick, green scum from a harmful algal bloom in Lake Erie. (Justin Chaffin, Ohio Sea Grant)
Each summer, clouds of…
Logan named director of American Economic Association Mentoring Program
In his new role as director of the American Economic Association (AEA) Mentoring Program, Trevon Logan isn’t necessarily looking to push the field of economics into more research on diversity and…

New Arts and Sciences chairs and directors for 2020
Eight College of Arts and Sciences faculty have been appointed as new department chairs or school directors of their units for the coming academic year.
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Drone research to receive state funding
Two projects with collaborators from Ohio State recently received funding through the Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN).
OFRN awarded $7.5 million in grants to six projects in…

A physicist's 'strong interaction' with a new particle accelerator
By using the Electron-Ion Collider to slam an electron into a heavier particle such as a proton or atomic nucleus together, as depicted in…

Martini named fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute
Paul Martini, professor in the Department of Astronomy and Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, has been named a 2020–2021 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at…

Ohio State scientists part of new $3.7M project to advance nuclear physics experiments
From left: Richard Furnstahl, Ulrich Heinz and Matthew Pratola.
Three College of Arts and Sciences researchers are key members of a new, $3.…