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Gopalan, Weiner, Bukowski honored with student council teaching awards
Venkat Gopalan, a Newman Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been selected as the recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award, an annual honor administered and…

Dancing digitally: Instructors and students connect across screens
Professor Susan Van Pelt Petry’s contemporary dance class used to meet three days a week in a large studio in Sullivant Hall for technical training, conditioning, learning sequences and performing…

Otter named 2020 Guggenheim Fellow
Christopher Otter, an associate professor in the Department of History, has received a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship.
“I am honestly very humbled to receive this award!” said Otter via email…

Social distancing book recommendations
Looking for a new book or wanting to rediscover old favorites as you heed social distancing guidelines from home? Faculty and friends of the Department of English have you covered with some of…

Laura Seeger keeps calm and carries on
When the College of Arts and Sciences asked for nominations of students, faculty and staff who have stepped up to the massive challenge of moving approximately 4,000 classes online in two weeks,…

Science Sundays goes online
Science Sundays, one of the premier outreach events of Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences, is bringing cutting-edge research presented by outstanding speakers into people’s homes. …

Berkowitz raises profile of interpreters at coronavirus briefings
Marla Berkowitz interprets for Gov. Mike DeWine during a briefing on the coronavirus.
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EEOB professor’s research to tackle problems measuring biodiversity change
We’ve all heard about dwindling biodiversity across the planet, but it turns out scientists have a difficult time actually verifying it.
Because it’s impossible to continually count…

Larsen wins Cozzarelli Prize for research into ancient city
Distinguished University Professor of anthropology Clark Larsen was awarded the 2019 Cozzarelli Prize from the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), an honor given to…