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Statistics Professor Leads High-Impact Study of Adolescent Activity Patterns
Statistics Professor Kate Calder leads a team of Ohio State researchers conducting a five-year study of adolescent health in an urban environment. The study is funded by a $1,553,888 grant from NIH’s…
Astronomer Leads Team Discovery of Hottest Known Planet
Astronomer Scott Gaudi is co-leader of an international team that has discovered the hottest planet ever. The discovered planet, KELT-9b is “so hot it stretches the definition of the word ‘planet,’”…
Kris Gremillion Appointed Chair of the Department of Anthropology
Kris Gremillion has been appointed to serve as chair of the Department of Anthropology. Her appointment begins on June 1, 2017.
Moving Toward a “Quantum Leap”
A new five-year, $477,294 NSF CAREER Award supports Physics Assistant Professor Yuan-Ming Lu’s educational outreach and important research on developing new ways to detect and design topological…
StatCrunch: A New Kind of Painting with Numbers
Big data is big news. It is also a useful way to tell a compelling, visual story, such as: does our addiction to fast food play a role? When an education resource company launched “StatCrunch,” a…
Nothing Says Spring like DataFest
On April 1 — no fooling — 111 undergraduates from across campus formed teams and began a weekend marathon of heavy-duty data-crunching, competing for prizes in Ohio State's 2nd annual DataFest…
Department of Design Partners with Clintonville Community Resource Center
The Clintonville Community Resource Center (CRC) recently received a grant to help combat childhood obesity and make improvements to the children’s education area of the food pantry. They partnered…
Arts and Sciences Faculty Named Distinguished University Professors
Clark Spencer Larsen, distinguished professor of social and behavioral sciences; professor and chair, anthropology, and David Weinberg, distinguished professor of mathematical and physical sciences;…
Pushing Doubts Aside: Jasmine Whiteside's Journey to Grad School
Jasmine Whiteside, a native of Mississippi, just completed her first year as a graduate student in sociology. An amazing feat considering just a few years ago, she lay in a coma for more than six…