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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…

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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…

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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…

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Eleven ASC Scholars and Teachers Receive 2016 Distinguished OAA Awards

Eleven Arts and Sciences scholars and teachers — covering the diverse range of disciplines in arts and humanities, natural and physical sciences and social and behavioral sciences — won top…

ASC Students Win Competition at Clinton Global Initiative University

Nima Dahir and Jackson Frazier (economics and mathematics) and fellow student Abd Al-Rahman Traboulsi (biomedical engineering), won the Resolution Social Venture Challenge (SVC) at the 2016 Clinton…

Dance major and 2nd place Denman winner Serena Chang

Thirty-eight ASC Students Earn Top Undergraduate Research Prizes

Arts and Sciences undergraduates — including aspiring dancers, writers and historians; physicists, Earth scientists and biologists; economists, psychologists and journalists — were among the top…

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Arts and Sciences Graduate Programs Rank Among Nation’s Top

Five graduate disciplines within the College of Arts and Sciences are newly ranked among the nation’s top, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.”