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Buckeye Biography: A Q&A with associate professor of history David Staley

As part of Ohio State's sesquicentennial celebration, the university is offering a free, online course, "Buckeye Biography: 150 Years of Ohio State." We sat down with associate professor of history…

Students in African American and African Studies in the 1970s | Photo courtesy of The Ohio State University Archives

African American and African Studies Department at 50

Department celebrates 50 years of excellence this fall with events, reunions and more.

Joshua Jay

Q&A with magician and alum Joshua Jay

Every day is magical for 2005 English alumnus Joshua Jay, a globally known magician and instructional magic author who has performed for the likes of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Fallon and…

Angela Petro Sweet Carrot

ASC Eats: Sweet Carrot

Angela Petro (BA, political science, history, 1995) appreciates the freedom a liberal arts education has offered her as she navigates the culinary scene as owner of the restaurant, Sweet Carrot, and…

Michael White

Linguistics professor receives $2.4 million Facebook award

Michael White, professor of linguistics, has received a three-year, $2.4 million Collaborative Research award from Facebook to further his research on neural natural language generation.

Safaitic inscriptions on rocks in the Harrah.

M.S. Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies finds clues to unknown Arabic history

Ahmad Al-Jallad, M.S. Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies, is renowned as one of the world's experts on early Arabic texts. By exhaustively inspecting the hot, rocky deserts of North Arabia, he looks for…

Clockwise from top left: Oajah Alcorn, Kiara Devese, Maria Khan and Ramona Stephenson

Arts and Sciences students receive Rising Star Awards

Four College of Arts and Sciences students were recently honored with Rising Star Awards from the college's Office of Undergraduate Recruitment.

Ohio State students learn about saplings they are about to plant during a field school in southern Louisiana. Photo credit: Mary Thomas

Climate change, humanities converge in Louisiana field school

Associate professors Thomas Davis of English and Mary Thomas of women’s, gender and sexuality studies recently took a group of students to a field school in southern Louisiana, where they grappled…

Cynthia Clopper

Cynthia Clopper named chair of Department of Linguistics

Cynthia Clopper, professor in the Department of Linguistics, was named chair of the department, effective July 1, 2019. Clopper has served as interim chair since August 2018.