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Dehua Pei receives 2025 Distinguished Scholar Award
Dehua Pei, PhD, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has earned The Ohio State University 2025 Distinguished Scholar Award. Senior…
College of Arts and Sciences awards five Instrumentation and Infrastructure Grants
Research and creative activity are often impossible without the right equipment, and the College of Arts and Sciences is stepping up to help faculty members replace outdated instrumentation,…
New approach makes one type of clean fuel production 66% more efficient
Researchers have uncovered a more efficient way to turn carbon dioxide into methanol, a type of alcohol that can serve as a cleaner alternative fuel.
In the lab,…
Six Arts and Sciences faculty members named 2024 AAAS Fellows
The 2024 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) includes eight investigators from The Ohio State University, with six scientists coming from the College…
Department of Geography to acquire state-of-the-art mobile weather radar
“If you feel it, chase it,” was the tagline for “Twisters,” a 2024 blockbuster film centered around a group of storm chasers who study tornadoes. And for students at Ohio State, the opportunity to…
New DESI results strengthen hints that dark energy may evolve
Researchers see hints that dark energy, widely thought to be a “cosmological constant,” might be evolving over time in unexpected ways.
New results from the Dark…
Arts and Sciences students shine at 2025 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum
A number of College of Arts and Sciences undergraduate researchers received awards at the 2025 Richard J. and Martha D. Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. 25 students from 12 majors placed…
Astronomer finds gas giant exoplanets formed earlier than previously thought
A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought, according to new research.
The Ohio…
Flight planning for success with Pilot Josh Yurman
“There comes a point – a moment, literally a moment – in every single trip I have, where I’m sitting at a roadside cafe, looking at something in a museum…I’m in Tokyo, I’m in Barcelona, and I’m in…