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A group of students stand in front of a torii during their study abroad course in Japan in May 2018

Earth sciences and public health merge in study abroad course to Japan

"The Field Experience in Global Public Health: Japan" is a study abroad course that combines the disciplines of Earth sciences and public health in which students study a broad range of public health…

An artist's impression of the gas giant exoplanet, HR 8799 c, based on scientific data on the HR 8799 solar system. Illustration courtesy Adam Makarenko/Keck Observatory

Astronomy professor's research advances technology looking for signs of alien life

Ji Wang, assistant professor of astronomy, recently led research that used high-dispersion spectroscopy to analyze the atmosphere of a gaseous exoplanet 129 light-years away. This technique…

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Did Ohio State really detect an alien signal?

Though the pursuit of aliens has largely come up empty, one strange discovery recorded by an Ohio State astronomer in 1977 continues to baffle scientists and stoke imaginations that maybe we aren't…

CK Vulpeculae, an hourglass-shaped cloud that formed after a brown dwarf and a white dwarf collided in 1670. Image courtesy ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. P. S. Eyres

Ohio State astronomer helps detect historical stellar merger event

R. Mark Wagner, a research scientist in the Department of Astronomy, was part of an international team that identified an hourglass-shaped cloud floating in space as remnants of a 348-year-old…

From left: Zachary Van Aernum, Sophie Harvey, Vicki Wysocki, Florian Busch, Benjamin Jones, Erin Panczyk

Wysocki lab making huge advances in protein characterization

A $6.8 million NIH grant has established a Resource for Native Mass Spectrometry Guided Structural Biology at Ohio State under the direction of chemistry and biochemistry professor Vicki Wysocki.

From left: Kendra Weinrich, Andre Santiago, Craig Stevens

Pursuing a passion for anthropology through the Summer Research Opportunities Program

The Big Ten Academic Alliance's Summer Research Opportunities Program has been dubbed a "gateway to graduate education."

Wave tank used by CAICE at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Image courtesy NSF Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment at UC San Diego.

$20 million NSF grant continues groundbreaking climate change research

Heather Allen, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is a researcher for the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment (CAICE) and studies how sea-spray aerosols…

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Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center expands research scope

Ohio State’s Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center is extending beyond its excellence in polar and alpine research to support the expanding scope of climate science across the university.

Gary and Connie Sharpe Geography Innovation Commons grand opening, Sept. 20, 2018.

Sharpe Geography Innovation Commons opens in Derby Hall

Gary and Connie Sharpe wanted to foster a space at Ohio State where new ideas could not only blossom, but thrive — so they founded the new Geography Innovation Commons in Derby Hall.