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Arts and Sciences Graduate Programs Rank Among Nation’s Top

Five graduate disciplines within the College of Arts and Sciences are newly ranked among the nation’s top, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 edition of “America’s Best Graduate…

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Four BETHA Grants Awarded to College of Arts and Sciences Projects

Four of the six proposals chosen for funding in the 2016 Battelle Engineering, Technology and Human Affairs (BETHA) Endowment annual grant competition are from the College of Arts and Sciences.…

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New Course Offers an Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change

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Climate change has been called the world’s greatest threat, and…

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Ohio State Researchers Play Major Role in Developing NASA WFIRST Mission

In the mid-2020s, NASA will launch a new space telescope that can map the Milky Way galaxy and the distant universe 100 times faster than the famed Hubble Space Telescope. Ohio State researchers…

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ASC Students Named Churchill Scholars

Two arts and sciences senior honors students, Alexis Crockett (neuroscience and psychology) and Henry Tran (chemistry and mathematics), have been named 2016 Churchill Scholars.

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Astronomers May Have Discovered the Most Powerful Supernova

An international team of astronomers including Professors Krzysztof Stanek, Christopher Kochanek and Todd Thompson in Ohio State's Department of Astronomy may have discovered the largest…

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New Career-Prep Tool Available to ASC Students

As 2016 kicks into gear, it’s time to nail down that summer internship, start job searching, or develop career readiness more broadly. Now, Arts and Sciences students have a central platform to…

In Memoriam: Chemistry Professor Malcolm H. Chisholm

Malcolm H. Chisholm, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Distinguished University Professor, a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry and an elected member of the National Academy of…

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NSF Grant Funds Nitrogen Cycle Impacts on Tidal Freshwater Zones

Audrey Sawyer, assistant professor, Earth sciences; and Rebecca Barnes, assistant professor, environmental science, Colorado College; began work on their three-year collaboration, “Dueling hot…