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Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Researchers Shine at 2017 Denman Forum
Forty Arts and Sciences undergraduates took top awards in 20 categories at the 22nd annual Denman Undergraduate Research Forum, held March 29.
DOE Funds Fundamental, Wide-Ranging, High-Energy Physics
The Department of Energy’s new three-year $5.65M grant to Ohio State’s High Energy Physics Group funds the research of eleven faculty members and their postdocs and graduate students on wide-ranging…
A Dinosaur for Orton
Orton Geological Museum’s treasure trove of rocks, minerals and fossils supports research, teaching and outreach. All it needs now is a dinosaur.
Building Better Medicine
A new, five-year, $700,00 NSF CAREER Award will help David Nagib, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, build better drugs. The grant funds critical work on Carbonyls, one of the most…
It All Goes Back to the Big Bang
Chris Orban, theoretical physicist at Ohio State Marion, leads the BETHA grant-funded collaboration, “The Revolution in Cosmology: Fr. Georges Lemaitre’s Hidden God,” focused on cosmologist and…
Observing Our Night Sky Like Never Before
The new, five-year, $2.4 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation puts eyes on the entire visible sky all night, every night, everywhere. ASAS-SN, led by Astronomy Professors Kris…
A New Look at How Stars Are Born
Astronomy Assistant Professor Adam Leroy and his students will get the best look yet at how stars are born in galaxies’ “stellar nurseries,” thanks to new, five-year, $582,635 NSF Faculty Early…
NASA Appoints Ohio State Astrophysicist to Key Executive Committee
NASA has appointed Physics Professor James J. Beatty to its Physics of the Cosmos Program Analysis Group Executive Committee. Playing an important role in NASA's future investments in Physics of the…
Microbiologist Leads Climate Change Study
Virginia Rich, assistant professor microbiology, with Scott Saleska of the University of Arizona, co-leads the quest of an international team of 13 researchers to understand how thawing permafrost…