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College of Arts and Sciences announces 5 new majors
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The College of Arts and Sciences has launched five new undergraduate majors, all of which incorporate emerging trends and issues into carefully…
Five Arts and Sciences faculty named 2018 AAAS Fellows
Five Arts and Sciences faculty members have been elected as 2018 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — one of the most prestigious honors given to U…
Presidential Fellow looks to the future – and the past
Colleen Cheverko has always been fascinated by the study of humans, but it wasn’t until halfway through her undergraduate career that she decided to study anthropology. Now, the Ohio State PhD…
The economics of a career
Even though Ohio State alumnus Tom Kniesner (BA, 1969; MA, 1971; PhD, 1974) has conducted research and served on the faculty at more than half a dozen universities and…
Hubbe's research on skeletons reveals ancient population exchanges between North and South America
By extracting and studying the DNA of ancient skeletal remains — some as old as 11,000 years — an international team of researchers has uncovered significant evidence of genetic exchanges…
Hardie finds the human element in field work
When people ask fourth-year student Megan Hardie what she studies at Ohio State, she tells them: “I study you. I study myself. I study everyone, basically.” The St. Louis native‘s love of studying…
Marcus Kurtz named director of Undergraduate International Studies Program
Marcus Kurtz, professor of political science, has been named director of the Undergraduate International Studies Program (UISP), effective Jan. 1, 2019.
Kurtz received both his MA and his…
Undergraduate’s love of nature and history fuels research in environmental archaeology
When fourth-year anthropology student Catherine Mendel was young, she would flip through her parents’ encyclopedia collection to the sections on world archaeology. She would read the pages over…
CAIDe Lab researcher Brittany Shoots-Reinhard joins Distracted Driving Task Force
Most know driving distracted is bad, right?
So why do people still do it? That’s up to Brittany Shoots-Reinhard, a research associate in the Cognition and Affect in Decision Making (CAIDe…