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College of Arts and Sciences faculty and staff receive 2024 University Outreach and Engagement Awards
Ohio State's University Outreach and Engagement Awards honor faculty, staff, students and community partners for outstanding achievement in producing engaged scholarship and community impact.…

Arts and Sciences faculty receive university awards
Eight faculty members and lecturers in the College of Arts and Sciences have received teaching and service awards from The Ohio State University. They were surprised with the recognitions during…

Announcing the 2024 Arts and Sciences Alumni Award honorees
Buckeyes Give: Top impact stories from 2023-24
Each spring, the College of Arts and Sciences’ Alumni Awards ceremony recognizes a distinguished few of our more than 215,000 living alumni…

Arts and Sciences undergraduate researchers win awards at 2024 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum
The College of Arts and Sciences congratulates the undergraduate researchers who received awards at the 2024 Richard J. and Martha D. Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. 27 students…

A mental process that leads to putting off an unpleasant task
Putting off a burdensome task may seem like a universal trait, but new research suggests that people whose negative attitudes tend to dictate their behavior in a range of situations are more…

Alum James Johnson endows new scholarship in Arts and Sciences
Buckeyes Give: Top impact stories from 2023-24
James “JJ” Johnson ’73 has pledged to create the James and Andrew Johnson Family Endowed Scholarship Fund at The Ohio State University. This…

How firm thy mentorship
Laura Wallace ’15 MA, ’19 PhD and her mentor Kentaro Fujita worked on numerous projects together throughout Laura’s time at Ohio State. In one study, they combined their research interests to…

Stress, via inflammation, is linked to metabolic syndrome
Lifestyle and genetics, and a range of other factors within and outside our control, are known to contribute to development of metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions that add up to increased…

Early-life stress changes more genes in brain than a head injury
A surprising thing happened when researchers began exploring whether early-life stress compounds the effects of a childhood head injury on health and behavior later in life: In an animal study,…