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College of Arts and Sciences search advisory committee announced

The Search Advisory Committee for the Vice Provost for Arts and Sciences and Executive Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, is assembled. Alan C. Michaels, dean and Edwin M. Cooperman Chair in Law,…

Professor of design Paul Nini waves The People's Flag of Columbus in front of Columbus City Hall. Photo courtesy of Brian Kaiser.

Design professor proposes The People's Flag of Columbus

Paul Nini, professor of design, hopes The People's Flag of Columbus, a flag he designed, will one day be something the community can unite under and identify with.

Robert Holub was appointed chair Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. He was also reappointed char of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

Robert Holub appointed interim chair of NESA, reappointed chair of GLL

Robert Holub was appointed interim chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and reappointed chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

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2018 Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professors

The College of Arts and Sciences has an amazing depth of talented, dedicated and respected faculty. This year, five professors were honored as Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professors.

Simone Drake

Simone Drake appointed chair of AAAS

Simone Drake, Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor, has been named chair of the Department of African American and African Studies (AAAS), effective June 1, 2018, to June 30, 2022.

Luis Casian

Luis Casian named divisional dean for natural and mathematical sciences

Luis Casian, professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics, will serve as the new divisional dean for natural and mathematical sciences for the College of Arts and Sciences. He will begin his…

Jonathan Capps, a glassmaker in the Department of Art, uses a blowtorch on a piece of glass art he's making. Capps will spend nine months in Finland for a Fulbright-funded research project.

Art alum, glassmaker headed to Finland on Fulbright grant

Glassmaker Jonathan Capps is using his Fulbright scholarship to spend nine months in the glass village of Nuutajärvi, Finland, where he will assist the Nuutajärvi Glass Village Cultural Foundation;…

Posing with a blooming titan arum "Woody" at Biological Sciences Greenhouse at Ohio State in 2013

Titan Arums at Biological Sciences Greenhouse

The Biological Sciences Greenhouse is welcoming the bloom of two titan arums, also known as corpse flowers, which are the world’s largest unbranched inflorescence.

Lisa Downing appointed chair of Department of Philosophy

Lisa Downing appointed chair of Department of Philosophy

Lisa Downing, professor in the Department of Philosophy, was named chair of the department, effective July 1.