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Big Data and Children's Health
Elisabeth Dowling Root, associate professor of geography, is part of the new Discovery Themes Translational Data Analytics at Ohio State. She studies the use of big data to improve children's health.
Geographer Develops Go-To Power Outage Forecasts for Hurricane Matthew
Hurricane Matthew could knock out power for approximately 9-10 million people in the U.S., according to power outage forecasts developed by Ohio State’s Steve Quiring, atmospheric sciences professor…
Bringing Speech Services to Rural Schools
Last summer, Ohio State’s Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic launched its first rural school outreach project, working with elementary students at Shekinah Christian School in Plain City, Ohio.
Addressing Hearing Loss Beyond the Clinic
Clinicians and students from the Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic join with persons with hearing impairments and their communication partners for Ohio's only social-based hearing loss event.
Arts and Sciences Launches New Environmental Humanities Program
A new Environmental Humanities Program, funded by an Arts and Humanities Divisional Grant and Ohio State's Humanities and the Arts Discovery Theme, seeks to position Ohio State as the leader in…
High School Students Discover the Humanities and Science
Thirty-eight high school students from around the country came to Ohio State to learn about where creativity comes from; why Austen’s Emma is better than The Hunger Games; and what brain mechanisms…
For Alumnus Ariel Cohen, Weather Forecasting Is a Dream Job
Ariel Cohen (BS, atmospheric sciences, 2006) is exactly where he’s always wanted to be — at NOAA’s National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, Oklahoma — doing exactly what he…
Students in Cartography Class Learn Map Design While Helping Local Youth with Homework
Students in Professor Ola Ahlqvist’s geography class, Elements of Cartography: Serving the Community Through Cartography, were given a unique opportunity to partner with the Columbus Metropolitan…
Clark Spencer Larsen Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Clark Spencer Larsen, distinguished professor of social and behavioral sciences; professor and and chair, Department of Anthropology, was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, one of…