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September 24, 2026

The Beat Goes On: School of Music’s hip hop minor kicks off its first semester

Hip hop began more than 50 years ago in the neighborhoods of New York City and has since spread across America, crossed oceans, connected cultures and even inspired new genres of music. Now, hip…

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Quasar 3C 273 is one of the closest quasars to our home. It was the first quasar ever identified, by astronomer Allan Sandage in the 1960s. Quasars are intensely powerful centers of distant, active galaxies, powered by a huge disc of particles surrounding
Team involving Ohio State astronomer gets a close-up look at the whirlpool around gigantic black hole

For the first time, astronomers peered into the outskirts of the supermassive black hole at the center of quasar 3C 273.

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.