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Statistics Professor Leads High-Impact Study of Adolescent Activity Patterns
Kate Calder, professor of statistics, leads a team of Ohio State researchers conducting an interdisciplinary, five-year study of adolescent health in an urban environment. The team, funded by a $1…

StatCrunch: A New Kind of Painting with Numbers
Before coming to Ohio State, Seattle native Ethan Pointer was stationed in Seoul, South Korea. The geographic information sciences (GIS) major, graduating in May 2018, “chose Ohio State…

Nothing Says Spring like DataFest
On April 1 — no fooling — 111 undergraduate students from all across campus formed teams and began a weekend-marathon of heavy-duty data wrangling. Hunkered over computers, crunching data,…

It’s All about Symmetry
Mathematics Assistant Professor David Penneys’ new, five-year, $420,000 National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award funds work on "Representing and Classifying…

NSF Research Training Group Grant Takes Ohio State Topology to Next Level
A new five-year, $1.72 million Research Training Group (RTG) grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences expands possibilities for an…

AFOSR Award Supports Young Mathematician's Collaborative Connections
Sanjeevi Krishnan has been at Ohio State just one year and already his research is attracting attention — and funding. His new three-year, $509,998 grant from the Air Force Office of Science…

Students Crunch and Conquer Datasets at Ohio State's First DataFest
DataFest, founded at UCLA in 2011, now sponsored by the American Statistical Association and hosted by several of the country’s top colleges and universities, takes mastering data analysis to…

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…

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…