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Clark Larsen and Anita Hopper elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of its new members for 2020, which include two faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences: Clark Larsen, Distinguished…

Office of Research awards COVID-19 funding to Arts and Sciences studies
The Office of Research recently announced its third and final round of funding as part of its COVID-19 Seed Funding Program aimed at addressing critical health and community problems related to…

Gopalan, Weiner, Bukowski honored with student council teaching awards
Venkat Gopalan, a Newman Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been selected as the recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award, an annual honor administered and…

Jordan Davis and the Buckeyes behind Can't Stop Columbus
When day-to-day life first ground to a halt in the face of the coronavirus, Jordan Davis, director of Smart Columbus and co-organizer of Can’t Stop Columbus, felt like she couldn’t help enough by…

Three arts and sciences students receive 2020 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships
Three Arts and Sciences students, juniors Emily Osborne, Eitan Rothberg and Sarthak Shah, have been named 2020 Goldwater Scholars, the most prestigious national award for…

Astronomy postdoc and alumnus receive NASA Hubble Fellowships
Department of Astronomy Visiting Scholar David Martin and 2017 PhD graduate Tom Holoien have been selected as fellows for the 2020 NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP), which enables outstanding…

Science Sundays goes online
Science Sundays, one of the premier outreach events of Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences, is bringing cutting-edge research presented by outstanding speakers into people’s homes. …

EEOB professor’s research to tackle problems measuring biodiversity change
We’ve all heard about dwindling biodiversity across the planet, but it turns out scientists have a difficult time actually verifying it.
Because it’s impossible to continually count…

Chemistry grad on the front lines of COVID-19 vaccine research
Thirty years after graduating from Ohio State with a degree in chemistry, Raymond Goodrich is leading a team that is fighting the coronavirus.
As executive director of the Infectious…