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On-Demand Diagnosis: Cancer Test Strip Poised to Change Lives

Abraham Badu-Tawiah, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is making news in innovative research vital to both energy and health. The question on the table is: What if testing yourself…

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Science v. Comic Book Science: Local Experts Panel Sorts It Out

Paul Sutter, Ohio State astrophysicist and COSI chief scientist, led a panel of local experts discussing the science behind our favorite comics and movies, at the Wizard World Comic Con in downtown…

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Earth Scientist’s Work on Coastal Water Problems Is Making Waves

When Audrey Sawyer, assistant professor, Earth sciences, is presented with her field’s top award in late September, it won’t be the first — or last — time her contributions to her field are…

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Dongping Zhong Awarded $2.1 Million NIH MIRA Pilot Program Grant

Biophysicist Dongping Zhong is one of an elite group of the nation's top researchers awarded a MIRA (Maximizing Investigators' Research Award) from NIH (the National Institutes of Health). The five…

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Chemist's DOE Early Career Award Funds Critical Energy Research

Chemist Abraham K. Badu-Tawiah's Early Career Award from DOE's Office of Science for his project, "Visible Light Photo-Catalysis in Charged Micro-Droplets," puts him in an elite group of the nation's…

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Look Up: Development of Concepts for NASA’s Next Flagship Telescope Begins; Two Ohio State Astronomers Lead Studies

NASA has announced four potential candidates for its 2030's "flagship astrophysics mission" and appointed two chairs to lead studies of each telescope. Brad Peterson, astronomy professor/chair…

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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…

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Veeam Software Makes Gift of $5 Million to Advance Innovation in Chemical Physics and Data Analytics

Veeam® Software Corporation, co-founded by arts and sciences alumnus Ratmir Timashev (MS, chemical physics, 1995) and his partner Andrei Baronov, has made a gift of $5 million to the College of Arts…

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New $1.6 Million NIH/NIDCD Grant Supports Biochemist's Work on Hearing and Balance

Biochemist Marcos Sotomayor's research group just received a huge boost. Sotomayor's five-year $1,636,250 NIH/NIDCD allows the assistant professor and his postdocs, graduate and undergraduate…