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A tour of Orton Museum views the dinosaur skeleton

Columbus City Schools teachers join STEAMM summer camp at Ohio State

Dozens of Columbus City Schools teachers started a recent warm summer morning on the campus of The Ohio State University, walking into historic Orton Hall and past the skeleton of the giant…

Engaged Scholars: John Beacom, Physics and Astronomy

Engaged Scholars is a series from the Office of Outreach and Engagement, highlighting Ohio State faculty who have made an impact in our communities through their community-engaged research and…

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Ohio State leads project to transform physics education

As national interest in STEM degrees rise, the number of students completing them has dwindled. 

This alarming educational gap may be due in part to a mismatch…

Louis DiMauro and Pierre Agostini

The long and short of it

Professors Lou DiMauro and Pierre Agostini, a 2023 Nobel laureate, are developing the next generation of big thinkers.

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5 for pride: These Buckeyes have a Nobel history, too

Pierre Agostini is the first sitting Ohio State professor to be named a Nobel Prize winner, and these professors and alumni also were honored.

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Encouraging kids to shoot for the stars

Caitlin O’Brien grew up surrounded by space. Some of her fondest childhood memories are watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos with her dad.

“He would bring me on stargazing trips. Or even if we just…

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New machine learning algorithm promises advances in computing

Systems controlled by next-generation computing algorithms could give rise to better and more efficient machine learning products, a new study suggests. 

Using…

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First year of DESI results unveil new clues about dark energy

Researchers at The Ohio State University played a major role in analyzing the first year of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s survey into the history of the universe…

Garden of Constants, teal blue sculptures of numbers

Five Arts and Sciences faculty members named 2023 AAAS Fellows

By Christina Dierkes

The 2023 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) includes eight investigators from The Ohio State University, with five scientists coming from the…