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Claudia Turro was eager to start the 2026-27 school year for good reason: she was back in her laboratory full-time.
After serving as Ohio State’s department chair of…
David Nagib, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Dr. Harold "Hal" Miller and Betty J. Miller Endowed Chair in Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been…
Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Distinguished University Professor and Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University, has been named the 2026 recipient of Ohio State’s…
Douglass Schumacher, a professor in the Department of Physics, is part of a multi-university collaboration receiving a $4.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF…
The Ohio State University continues to build momentum as a national leader in artificial intelligence research and innovation. This week, two teams led by Ohio State researchers joined a $293…
The Ohio State University is strengthening its growing prominence in quantum science, technology, and education with a $4 million, two‑year Phase II design award from the U.S. National Science…
Music education professor Eugenia Costa-Giomi has been awarded a 2026-2027 Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to Brazil to research “Growing up musical: The cultural context of infants’…
David Hoffmann, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History, has earned The Ohio State University 2026 Distinguished Scholar Award. Senior leadership in the…
America’s 250th birthday is a time to take stock of the past and consider the future, said Charles O. Anderson, The Ohio State University’s newest Artist Laureate.
“It’s an…
Six student-led startups, including a team of neuroscience majors, were each awarded $50,000 in funding at The Ohio State University’s 2026 President’s Buckeye Accelerator (PBA) finale, led by the…
Marilynn Brewer, professor emerita and Ohio Eminent Scholar in the Department of Psychology, and Christopher Kochanek, professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar in the…
Four students from The Ohio State University have been recognized by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program for their commitment to scientific research. Awardees…
Elizabeth Dillenburg in the Department of History and Alexander Sokolov in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry were recently chosen to participate in the…
Christopher Browning, PhD, professor of sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has earned The Ohio State University 2026 Distinguished Scholar Award. Senior leadership in…
Christopher A. (Drew) Jones, PhD, professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, has earned The Ohio State University 2026 Distinguished Scholar Award. Senior…
Patrick Arp, a third-year biomedical science and economics major, is The Ohio State University’s 10th Truman Scholar.
Arp is one of 55 exceptional college students from 48 U.S. colleges and…
Hugh Urban, Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Comparative Studies, has been selected for membership in The American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Founded…
The Ohio State University’s Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching is one of the university’s most prestigious teaching awards. Ten faculty members, including six Arts and Sciences faculty…
Six faculty members, including lecturers in the Department of English and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, were recently announced as 2026 Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching…
Six faculty members, including three from the College of Arts and Sciences, were recently announced as the inaugural Faculty-to-Faculty Mentorship Award recipients.
This new university‑wide…
Christopher Jaroniec, PhD, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and associate dean for research and creative inquiry in the College of Arts and Sciences, has earned The Ohio State University…
The Ohio State University has selected Anderson, professor in the Department of Dance, as its 2026–27 Artist Laureate.
Claudia Turro has changed how researchers understand and use the photoreactivity of metal complexes, shifting the paradigm of inorganic photochemistry. Her discoveries have also…
Miriam Brinberg, PhD, assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences School of Communication, has earned The Ohio State University 2026 Early Career Distinguished Scholar Award. Senior…
It’s rare to know early in one’s life what their career might look like, with interests and potential paths always changing as people learn more about the world around them. Matthew…
The Ohio State University has been awarded a grant from the Mellon Foundation to support a major initiative redefining world language education for the 21st century. Global Fluency, Career Agility…
The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce the 2025-2026 recipients of endowed and college-wide awards for research, teaching, mentoring and service.
Faculty Arts and Sciences…
The 2025 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) includes four investigators from The Ohio State University, all affiliated with the College of Arts and…
Each spring, the College of Arts and Sciences’ Alumni Awards ceremony recognizes remarkable leaders whose achievements reflect the power of a liberal arts education and the bold momentum driving…
Congratulations to the 15 graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences who are recipients of the 2025-26 Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) from Ohio State's Graduate School. The…
Susan Cole, professor and chair in the Department of Molecular Genetics, and John E. Davidson, professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, were recognized for their…
Ohio State's University Outreach and Engagement Awards honor faculty, staff and students for outstanding achievement in producing engaged scholarship and community impact. Congratulations to this…
Research and creative activity are often impossible without the right equipment, and the College of Arts and Sciences continues to step up to help faculty members replace outdated instrumentation,…
A lot happened in the College of Arts and Sciences in 2025. Let's take a look back at some of our top stories from the past 12 months as we get ready to share another year of excellence,…
Ohio State researchers, including faculty in the Department of Physics and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, recently were awarded nearly $9 million through the Ohio Federal Research…
Dehua Pei, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). This award recognizes “exceptional…
Several programs in the College of Arts and Sciences earned strong international recognition in the 2025 Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS).
GRAS evaluates world…
Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Distinguished University Professor and Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science, received a 2025 Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual…
Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics along with Joel Mokyr and Phillippe Aghion, his longtime collaborator. The department extends its warmest congratulations to…
The Society of Actuaries (SOA) has designated the Actuarial Science program at The Ohio State University as an SOA Center of Actuarial Excellence (CAE). The SOA launched the CAE designation in…
Matthew Sullivan, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and director of the Center of Microbiome Science, is the recipient of the 2026 Award for Environmental Research…
Claudia Wier, associate professor of teaching, Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts, and School of Music, College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a 2025-2026 Fulbright U.S. Scholar…
Ohio State Energy Partners (OSEP), the university’s comprehensive energy management partnership, has announced its 2025-2026 grant recipients. Awardees include Nicole Karn in the Department of…
Melisa Diaz, an associate professor in earth sciences and the principal investigator of the Polar and Environmental Geochemistry Lab at The Ohio State University, has been named a 2025–2027 CIFAR…
Jennifer Eaglin, associate professor, Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a 2025-2026 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Brazil to research “Going Nuclear: The…
Tiffany Bourgeois, assistant professor, Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a 2025-2026 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to…
When Kate Shannon started her photography coursework as a college student, film was still the primary medium.
“I didn’t pick up my first digital camera until I was done with my…
A psychology professor from The Ohio State University has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors a scientist can receive.
Richard Petty,…
Zac Shultz, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a 2025-2026 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Chile to research “Raman…
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced the election of its new members for 2025, which includes four faculty members from The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences: …
Danielle Fosler-Lussier, PhD, professor of music in the College of Arts and Sciences’ School of Music, has earned The Ohio State University 2025 Distinguished Scholar Award. Senior leadership in…
Brendan W. Crowell, assistant professor, School of Earth Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded a 2025-2026 Fulbright U.S. Specialist grant to the Escuela Politécnica Nacional…
The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce the 2024-2025 recipients of endowed and college-wide awards for research, teaching, mentoring and service.
Faculty Arts and Sciences…
Ahmad Al-Jallad, Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies and a professor in the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures; Dionne Lee, assistant…
Michael Lisa, a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics, has been named a 2025 Distinguished University Professor, the highest faculty honor at The Ohio State University…
Professor Norah Zuniga Shaw, Director for Dance and Technology at The Ohio State University’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) and Department of Dance, is partnering with…
Peter L. Hahn, a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History, has been named a 2025 Distinguished University Professor, the highest faculty honor at The Ohio State University…
The Ohio State University has selected Kate Shannon, associate professor in the Department of Art at Ohio State Mansfield, as its 2025-2026 Artist Laureate. Shannon will begin a one-year…
Caprice Phillips, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Astronomy at Ohio State, has always aimed for the stars through her research and outreach. Now, she will have the…
Six faculty members, including Kellen Calinger-Yoak in the Center for Life Sciences Education; Lisa Nguyen in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; and …
Six associate professors, including Matthew Grizzard in the School of Communication, were recently chosen to participate in the next cohort of Provost’s Midcareer Scholars:…
Four students from The Ohio State University have been recognized by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program. The group includes neuroscience major Majd Al-Marrawi,…
The Ohio State University’s Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, established during the 1959-60 academic year, is one of the university’s most prestigious teaching awards. Ten faculty members,…
Benjamin Hoffmann, College of Arts and Sciences Designated Professor of French and Francophone Literature and Director of the Center of Excellence in the Department of French and…
Dehua Pei, PhD, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has earned The Ohio State University 2025 Distinguished Scholar Award. Senior…
Research and creative activity are often impossible without the right equipment, and the College of Arts and Sciences is stepping up to help faculty members replace outdated instrumentation,…
Three Ohio State faculty members, including Mitchell B. Lerner, professor of history, and Sara Watson, associate professor of political science, are recipients of the 2025 President and Provost’s…
Michael A. Neblo, PhD, professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Political Science, has earned The Ohio State University 2025 Distinguished Scholar Award. Senior leadership in…
The Ohio State University has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support the Unite to Read Project (URP).
The URP is an innovative, two-year initiative to engage the…
Bryan Carstens, PhD, professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, has earned The Ohio State University 2025 Distinguished Scholar Award…
The 2024 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) includes eight investigators from The Ohio State University, with six scientists coming from the College…
“If you feel it, chase it,” was the tagline for “Twisters,” a 2024 blockbuster film centered around a group of storm chasers who study tornadoes. And for students at Ohio State, the opportunity to…
Anita Hopper, a professor of molecular genetics, has been named a 2025 Distinguished University Professor, the highest faculty honor at The Ohio State University.
Each spring, the College of Arts and Sciences’ Alumni Awards ceremony recognizes a distinguished few of our more than 220,000 living alumni whose accomplishments are tangible evidence of the…
Ohio State's University Outreach and Engagement Awards honor faculty, staff and students for outstanding achievement in producing engaged scholarship and community impact. Congratulations to this…
This past autumn, The Ohio State University Artist Laureate Kevin McClatchy brought his enriching Shakespeare and Autism Project to six locations across the state to help members of the autism…
Higher education was not always in Michel Talagrand's plans. However, the newest Abel Prize winner reflects fondly on his time at The Ohio State University, where he spent more…
Adam Leroy, a professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Henry Draper Medal.
The oldest medal awarded by the National…
A lot happened in the College of Arts and Sciences in 2024. Let's take a look back at some of our top stories from the past 12 months as we get ready to share another year of excellence,…
Three professors at The Ohio State University, including 2023 Nobel Prize winner Pierre Agostini in the Department of Physics, have been elected as members of the National Academy…
Laura Podalsky, distinguished professor of Spanish and Portuguese in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University, has been awarded the…
Erin Lin, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University, has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research…
Anna Babel, a professor of Hispanic linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University, has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright…
David Nagib, an organic chemist and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The Ohio State University, has been selected as a finalist for the 2024 Blavatnik National Awards for…
The Center for Emergent Materials (CEM) at The Ohio State University’s College of Arts and Sciences is partnering with California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) on a program to expand…
Department of Design Chair Fabienne Münch was awarded the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (“Order of Academic Palms”), a French national order bestowed on distinguished academics and…
Ohio State Energy Partners (OSEP), the university’s comprehensive energy management partnership, has announced 2024-2025 grants for projects that support international experiential learning,…
Professors Lou DiMauro and Pierre Agostini, a 2023 Nobel laureate, are developing the next generation of big thinkers.
Pierre Agostini is the first sitting Ohio State professor to be named a Nobel Prize winner, and these professors and alumni also were honored.
A record number of graduate students from The Ohio State University have been awarded prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program fellowships for 2024-2025. Seven students are recipients of the…
The Ohio State University Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation through its “Affirming Multivocal Humanities”…
The third annual President’s Buckeye Accelerator has awarded $50,000 each to six teams of student entrepreneurs at The Ohio State University to further their startup business ventures. Winning…
When a group of visitors stopped by Kevin McClatchy’s class earlier this month, he thought they were incoming students on a campus tour. It wasn’t until he recognized the faces of Dana Renga, dean…
Abby Zbikowski, associate professor in the Department of Dance; Gina Osterloh, photographer and associate professor in the Department of Art, and Ryan…
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…
The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce the 2023-2024 recipients of endowed and college-wide awards for research, teaching, mentoring and service.
Faculty Arts and Sciences…
The Ohio State University has selected Kevin McClatchy, associate professor in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts, as its 2024-2025 Artist Laureate. He will begin a one-year…
Ohio State's University Outreach and Engagement Awards honor faculty, staff, students and community partners for outstanding achievement in producing engaged scholarship and community impact…
Eight faculty members and lecturers in the College of Arts and Sciences have received teaching and service awards from The Ohio State University. They were surprised with the recognitions during…
Pierre Agostini, 2023 Nobel Laureate and emeritus professor of physics at The Ohio State University, is often a man of few words. During his visit to the Columbus campus this…
On a breezy spring day, Pierre Agostini, emeritus professor of physics at The Ohio State University and 2023 Nobel Laureate, was welcomed back to Columbus with a crowd of more…
The Ohio State University received a $2 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to support community engagement through the arts. The grant’s intended long-term…
Buckeyes Give: Top impact stories from 2023-24
Each spring, the College of Arts and Sciences’ Alumni Awards ceremony recognizes a distinguished few of our more than 215,000…
The College of Arts and Sciences congratulates the undergraduate researchers who received awards at the 2024 Richard J. and Martha D. Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. 27…
Scott Gaudi, Thomas Jefferson Professor for Discovery and Space Exploration and a Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Astronomy at The Ohio State University, has been named…
Faculty at the College of Arts and Sciences and the John Glenn College of Public Affairs spearhead Ohio State’s work on a U.S. National Science Foundation, $4.5 million pilot project to answer…
Novel GHz-class NMR systems are enabling novel life science and materials research in functional structural biology, drug discovery, metabolomics and cleantech research.…
Andrew Heckler, well-known specialist in physics education research at The Ohio State University was awarded two grants from The National Science Foundation (NFS) totaling $780,000 to enhance the…
It may have been some 4,200 miles away from the ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, but the applause couldn’t have sounded any sweeter than it did at The Ohio State University Sunday when Pierre…
Professor Lou DiMauro, who oversees the day-to-day for the research group he and laureate Pierre Agostini lead, invites you to peek inside. Watch out for the lasers.
In September 2023, the Campus Chemical Instrument Center (CCIC) and Gateway National Ultrahigh Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility welcomed the delivery of a state-of-the-art, 1.2…
Congratulations to the College of Arts and Sciences alumni who received 2023 Alumni Awards from the Ohio State Alumni Association! The alumni association's awards program celebrates excellence by…
A new program at The Ohio State University seeks to grow the ranks of the next generation of biomedical scholars doing impactful research.
The Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC)…
When Elizabeth Weiser came to Newark to interview for a job at The Ohio State University’s regional campus, she was offered a tour of local neighborhoods and schools. She declined both in favor of…
Pierre Agostini, professor emeritus of physics at The Ohio State University, has been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics with two of his colleagues.
Congratulations to the three Arts and Sciences faculty members who were named 2023-2024 Provost’s Early Career Scholars! The group includes Clementine Bordeaux in the Department of Women's, Gender…
The Ohio State University’s Urban Arts Space (UAS) has named Arris’ J. Cohen as the center’s inaugural community artist-in-residence. UAS marked the occasion with a Sept. 13 celebration at the…
The Ohio State University will lead a new multimillion dollar international center devoted to using artificial intelligence to help understand climate impacts on biodiversity.
The AI and…
Natalie Wright Romeri-Grass, a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at The Ohio State University, has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research…
Ohio State Energy Partners (OSEP), the university’s comprehensive energy management partnership, has announced 2023-24 grants for projects that advance access to STEM education for people with…
Mohamed Shedeed, a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at The Ohio State University, has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA…
The Student Academic Success Research (SASR) Grants program is pleased to announce its 2023 round of grantees. This year, the SASR Grants program was expanded to include creative arts projects in…
Faculty, staff and students in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics will play a large part in NASA’s next large astrophysics mission, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman), expected to…
The Ohio State University has selected nine proposals, including six from the College of Arts and Sciences, for Good-to-Great Grant Program support. Sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs …
An interdisciplinary team at The Ohio State University has received $3M from the National Science Foundation to support the launch of a new graduate program in quantum information science and…
Two graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences have been awarded 2023 Pelotonia Graduate Scholarships, a two-year research award that supports graduate students who focus on cancer…
Daniel Brandenburg, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics, has been selected as one of 93 scientists across the country to receive funding from the U.S. Department…
Harrison Blake, a rising senior with majors in physics and astronomy and astrophysics, has been awarded the Astronaut Scholarship, which recognizes outstanding students in STEM…
Doctoral student in political science Karis Neufeld and doctoral student in history Justin Salgado were both awarded with Fulbright U.S. Student Program…
First-generation college student Emily Johnson is determined to help those like her upon her graduation from The Ohio State University.
Born in Huntington W. Va., Johnson moved to southeast…
Christo Sevov, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is one of 18 recipients of the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award for 2023.
Award winners are in an…
Gerald Carter, assistant professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology at The Ohio State University, has been selected as a member of the inaugural class of Freeman Hrabowski Scholars…
The Brown Science Foundation announced Miller Professor in Organic Chemistry David Nagib was named one of seven recipients of the annual Brown Investigator Award. The award…
If there is one thing Caroline Mallory knows, it’s that she doesn’t know where her work is going to take her next.
A member of the 2023 graduating class, Mallory’s…
Matthew Saltzman, School of Earth Sciences professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a 2023-2024 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to South Korea for “Reconstructing ancient…
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced the election of its new members for 2023, which includes two faculty members from The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences: …
The College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University has received a $5 million gift from Gifford Weary and the Weary Family Foundation. This gift will launch the Collaborative on the…
Korie Little Edwards, professor of sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has earned The Ohio State University 2023 Distinguished Scholar Award. Senior leadership in the Enterprise for…
At a special reception held on Thursday, April 20, Thomas Darrah, professor in the College of Arts and Science's School of Earth Sciences, was named The Ohio State University 2023…
The winner of this year’s Emerging Leader Award from the College of Arts and Sciences says that her personal and professional passion boils down to one question: “How can I be…
A former chief executive of a multi-billion dollar company and current Chairman of the Board at Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is being honored by the…
Six Arts and Sciences faculty members were recently honored with Ohio State's 2023 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. Honorees include Steven G. Brown, associate professor of teaching in the…
A dedicated public servant, long-time attorney and executive, and the College of Arts and Science first women’s studies major is being honored as one of this year’s…
The Ohio State University has received an innovative gift of $2 million from Amgen, one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. Funds will support academic priorities and talent…
A dedicated volunteer, advocate and ambassador for the College of Arts and Sciences is being honored with this year’s Alumni Award for Distinguished Service.
Four students from The Ohio State University have been recognized by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program. The selected students include Defne Ceyhan, a data…
The first Black woman to earn a PhD from the Chemistry Department at Ohio State. Award-winning scientist and business leader. Philanthropist and mentor. And now, winner of the…
The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 recipients of endowed and college-wide awards for research, teaching, mentoring and service.
Kathy Fagan Grandinetti, professor in the Department of English, and David L. Hoffmann, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History, have…
Matthew Sullivan, PhD, professor of microbiology in the College of Arts and Sciences with a joint appointment in the Department of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, has earned The Ohio State…
Mohit Randeria, PhD, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has earned The Ohio State University 2023 Distinguished Scholar Award. Senior leadership in the Enterprise for…
Nyama McCarthy-Brown will enhance impact across Ohio's underserved communities
The Ohio State University has selected Nyama McCarthy-Brown as its inaugural Artist…
Three arts and humanities faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences have been selected for the 2023 Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Awards:
Patricia…
Christin Burd, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics, College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, College of Medicine, has earned…
From the Enterprise for Research, Innovation and Knowledge: Christo Sevov, PhD, assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Chemistry and Biochemistry department, has earned The Ohio…
Buckeyes give: top Arts and Sciences stories from 2022-23
The Arts and Sciences Alumni Awards are presented each year to a select group of alumni and volunteers who…
The College of Arts and Sciences congratulates the undergraduate researchers who received awards at the 2023 Richard J. and Martha D. Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. 22 students from 14…
Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Department of English and interim chair of the African American and African Studies (AAAS) department, has earned The Ohio…
From Ohio State News: Margaret Newell’s $492,000 award was part of nearly $3 million in grants from the Mellon Foundation announced last month. Among them was a $1.9 million award to the…
Christo Sevov, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Caroline Terry, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, have been named recipients of the 2023…
Dehua Pei, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been named a Senior Member by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). This award recognizes academic…
The 2022 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) includes four investigators from The Ohio State University, with two scientists coming from the College…
Funding will advance innovation in humanities scholarship and curriculum, strengthen community partnerships, and bring in new postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, and tenure-track faculty…
Among 15 new academic partners announced today, The Ohio State University’s College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Engineering will participate in NBCUniversal’s NBCU Academy, a multi…
The Ohio State Graduate School announced its Presidential Fellows for 2022-2023, a group that includes 22 students in the College of Arts and Sciences. The Presidential Fellowship is the most…
Department of Microbiology Associate Professor Matthew Anderson has been awarded funding through the Science Diversity Leadership Program of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI),…
Associate Professor Nicholas Breyfogle from the Department of History has been awarded The Herbert Feis Award for distinguished contributions to public history by the American…
Paul Martini, professor in the Department of Astronomy and the Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, has been selected as a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)…
The Ohio State University has been selected as one of six institutions to receive a $2.5 million Driving Change grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Established in 2019, Driving…
The College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Awards, administered by the Arts and Sciences Staff Advisory Council, recognize staff members who demonstrate sustained excellence in overall job…
The College of Arts and Sciences recognizes its distinguished faculty each spring, bestowing awards for research, service, teaching and mentoring. All honorees and their achievements were recognized…
Madison Tuttle, a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was named Ohio State’s 2022 Next Generation Innovator of the Year.
David Brakke, Joe R. Engle Chair in the History of Christianity and professor in the Department of History, and Krzysztof Stanek, professor and University Distinguished Scholar in the Department of…
Mackenzie Scott, a third-year honors student majoring in astronomy and astrophysics and physics with a minor in history, was named a 2022 Goldwater Scholar, the prestigious national award for…
Scott Lloyd Dewitt, Elizabeth Hewitt, Ousman Kobo and Norah Zuniga Shaw have been recognized for their creative teaching and extraordinary records of engaging, motivating and inspiring students.
Each year, the College of Arts and Sciences Honoring Excellence ceremony recognizes a distinguished few of our more than 220,000 living alumni. Their accomplishments and contributions to their fields…
Bart Elmore, an associate professor of history, was one of nine winners to receive the 2022 Dan David Prize, a prestigious distinction that honors history scholars from around the world whose…
Quantum information science (QIS) research isn’t new on Ohio State’s campus. However, a recent Catalyst Grant through the President's Research Excellence program to develop novel quantum bits for…
Laura Lopez, an associate professor in the Department of Astronomy, was awarded the 2022 Early Career Prize by the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society.
The immense dedication Beverly Moss has expressed for community writing over more than three decades has earned her the 2021 Distinguished Engaged Scholar in Community Writing Award from the…
Four Arts and Sciences professors — Bear Braumoeller, Joshua Goldberger, Michael Annan Lisa and Harvey Miller — were named 2021 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Kristina Sessa, a professor in the Department of History, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant, which will fund her project, “Disaster in Late Antiquity: A Cultural and…
The Ohio State Graduate School announced its 40 Presidential Fellows for 2021-2022, a group that includes 22 students in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Dorothy Noyes, professor of English and comparative studies, receives the 2021 Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Achievement, which recognizes scholars who have made significant…
Ohio State is installing new imaging technology thanks to a $339,000 award from the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Program. The instrument supports the research of…
Anita Hopper, professor of molecular genetics, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Hopper is one of 120 new members and is part of NAS’ largest-ever cohort of 59 new female members.
Fritz Graf, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Classics, and Stewart Shapiro, the Steve R. and Sarah E. O’Donnell Professor of Philosophy, were elected into the American Academy…
Oseremhen “Ose” Arheghan, a political science and Chinese major, was awarded the Harry S. Truman Scholarship for their commitment to leadership, diversity and inclusion. They led as chair and co…
Each year, the College of Arts and Sciences Honoring Excellence ceremony recognizes a distinguished few of our more than 210,000 living alumni. Their accomplishments and contributions to their fields…
Associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry Abraham Badu-Tawiah was named Early Career Innovator of the Year, and undergraduate student Caroline Karbowski was named Next Generation Innovator of…
Five departments in the Ohio State College of Arts and Sciences are home to graduate programs and specialty areas newly ranked among the nation’s best, according to the U.S. News & World Report 2022…
Of the 10 scholars named 2021 President's Postdoctoral Scholars, supported by the Office of the President, nine hail from the College of Arts and Sciences.
Four Arts and Humanities faculty members have been recognized due to their creative teaching and extraordinary records of engaging, motivating and inspiring students.
David Weinberg, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Astronomy, has won the 2021 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics for his research surrounding modern large-scale astronomical…
Amrita Dhar, assistant professor in the Department of English, and Christopher Pincock, professor in the Department of Philosophy, were recently awarded National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)…
Of the 11 Ohio State scientists elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this year, 10 are from the College of Arts and Sciences.
The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded LaserNetUS, a network of facilities operating ultra-powerful lasers that includes Ohio State's Scarlet Laser Facility, $18 million in new funding to…
Jerald Walker’s How to Make a Slave and Other Essays was recently named a nonfiction finalist for the National Book Awards, making The Ohio State University Press imprint Mad Creek Books one of the…
QuSTEAM, an initiative funded by the National Science Foundation, is a multi-institutional program led by Ohio State that works together with industry and national laboratories to revamp…
Meet this year's honorees as the College of Arts and Sciences recognizes the recipients of endowed college awards and college-wide awards for teaching and mentoring.
Ohio State appoints no more than three Distinguished University Professors annually. All awardees for 2020 were faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences: Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Susan Olesik and…
Michael Neblo, professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA), has been named a member of the 2020 class of Andrew…
Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Anthropology Clark Larsen and professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics Anita Hopper were elected to the American Academy of Arts and…
The Arts and Sciences Student Council recently recognized Newman Professor of chemistry and biochemistry Venkat Gopalan, professor of comparative studies Isaac Weiner and PhD candidate of English…
Associate professor of history Christopher Otter was awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. English alumna Aimee Nezhukumatathil, who is currently a professor at the University of Mississippi, also…
We’ve all heard about dwindling biodiversity across the planet, but it turns out scientists have a difficult time actually verifying it. This summer, Assistant Professor Marta Jarzyna is leading a…
Distinguished University Professor of anthropology Clark Larsen was awarded the 2019 Cozzarelli Prize from the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), an honor given to just…
Abraham Badu-Tawiah and Steffen Lindert, assistant professors in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, have are recipients of 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships.
Five Arts and Humanities faculty members have been recognized due to their creative teaching and extraordinary records of engaging, motivating and inspiring students.
Professors of Astronomy Christopher Kochanek and Krzysztof Stanek have jointly received the American Astronomical Association's 2020 Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize, awarded for their innovative…
Professor of Astronomy and Ohio Eminent Scholar Christopher Kochanek was honored with the 2020 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics for his research into black hole formation and building a…
The Office of International Affairs' 19th annual International Photography Exhibition features 40 photos in 21 different countries by students, staff, faculty and alumni. Of the 40 images, Arts and…
Awarded each semester to graduate students of outstanding scholarship, the Presidential Fellowship grants fellows one year of full-time financial support in their final year of dissertation work.
John Beacom, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Henry L. Cox Professor of Physics and Astronomy, has received the National Postdoctoral Association’s 2020 Garnett-Powers Association, Inc…
Arts and Sciences senior Henry Wu has been named a 2020 Rhodes Scholar, one of the most prestigious awards for college seniors and recent graduates. Wu, a philosophy and political science double…
More than $27 million from the National Science Foundation will fund two new facilities at Ohio State led by the College of Arts and Sciences.
Michael White, professor of linguistics, has received a three-year, $2.4 million Collaborative Research award from Facebook to further his research on neural natural language generation.
Amanda Hummon, chemistry and biochemistry, and Chuan Xue, mathematics, were granted the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Four College of Arts and Sciences students were recently honored with Rising Star Awards from the college's Office of Undergraduate Recruitment.
The College of Arts and Sciences announces its 2019 Distinguished College Professor awards.
Awarded each semester to graduate students of outstanding scholarship, the Presidential Fellowship grants fellows one year of full-time financial support in their final year of dissertation work.
Igor Jouline, Rod Sharp Professor of microbiology, has received a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to further his research on cell signaling.
The fourth annual Spring Recognition Ceremony honors the recipients of endowed college awards and college-wide awards for teaching and mentoring in the Arts and Sciences.
Ohio State awarded 150 sesquicentennial scholarships to students across the university for the 2019-20 academic year, 32 of whom are in the Arts and Sciences
This year's Honoring Excellence ceremony recognized notable achievements by distinguished Arts and Sciences alumni.
The Department of Psychology's Jennifer Crocker and School of Earth Sciences' Lonnie Thompson elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Carmen Winant, Roy Lichtenstein Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Art, receives 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship
Five Arts and Humanities faculty members have been recognized due to their creative teaching and extraordinary records of engaging, motivating and inspiring students.
David Nagib, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been named a 2019 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.
The Ohio State University Press, The University of Washington Press, the MIT Press, Cornell University Press, University of Chicago Press, Northwestern University Press and the Association of…
While most of us were gearing up for a much-needed and well-deserved winter break, physics professor Louis Franklin DiMauro was en route to Stockholm, Sweden, to attend the 2018 Nobel Prize award…
Awarded each semester to graduate students of outstanding scholarship, the Presidential Fellowship gives fellows one year of full-time financial support.
Five Arts and Sciences faculty members have been elected as 2018 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — a prestigious honor bestowed upon AAAS members who are…
The U.S. Department of Education has provided more than $6.67 million in funding to the Centers for Latin American Studies; Slavic and East European Studies; and East Asian Studies.
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.
As Chief Actuary of New York City, alumna Sherry Chan oversees a $7 million budget and certifies the city's roughly $10 billion annual pension contribution. She also bakes, golfs and teaches yoga.
This spring, 15 graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences received Presidential Fellowships, the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School.
On April 10, the College of Arts and Sciences hosted its annual Spring Recognition Ceremony, honoring faculty and others in the college for their outstanding achievements in the arts and sciences.
Bradley Peterson, professor emeritus of astronomy, has received an Exceptional Service Medal from NASA — one of the space agency’s most lauded annual awards.
Dehua Pei, Charles H. Kimberly Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been named the university’s 2017 Innovator of the Year.
Fourth-year Anna Voelker has been named a Brooke Owens Fellow and alumna Nima Dahir has been named to the inaugural class of Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University. Voelker will work at The…
Zeynep Saygin, assistant professor of psychology, and Hannah Shafaat, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, have been named 2018 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows.
As the academic heart of the university, the College of Arts and Sciences is full of #BuckeyeLove each and every day, thanks to our students, staff and faculty.
Matt Derksen (BFA 2001, MFA 2003) and his team at Rhythm & Hues, a visual effects and animation company, are being awarded with an Academy Award in Technical Achievement for creating a one-of-a-kind…
Steffen Lindert, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, was awarded a $1.8 million R01 grant from the National Heart, Lung and, Blood Institute to identify potential new drugs to treat…
For the College of Arts and Sciences, 2017 was full of extraordinary accomplishments, leading-edge research, impactful philanthropy and nonstop learning. Take a moment to look back as we gear up for…
The Ratner Awards recognize faculty for making a difference in students' educations, lives and careers.
Astronomy and physics professor Christopher Hirata is the first faculty member from Ohio State to receive a New Horizons in Physics Prize, an award given alongside the annual Breakthrough Prizes,…
James Beatty, professor of astronomy and physics, and Andrea Grottoli, professor of Earth sciences, have been elected as 2017 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)…
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…
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…
Clark Spencer Larsen, distinguished professor of social and behavioral sciences; professor and chair, anthropology, and David Weinberg, distinguished professor of mathematical and physical sciences;…
Six Ohio State undergraduate students have been named recipients of 2017-2018 Boren Scholarships, which provide unique funding opportunities for students to study less commonly taught languages in…
Gretchen Klingler, a third-year student veteran majoring in anthropology and Arabic, has been selected to attend the Student Veterans of America Leadership Institute. Klingler is president of the…
This year, three Ohio State faculty and one alumnus were elected to the 237th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Those elected include: Janet Box-Steffensmeier, political science;…
On Monday, April 3, the College of Arts and Sciences hosted its annual Spring Recognition Ceremony, honoring faculty and others in the college for their outstanding achievements in the arts and…
Three Arts and Sciences honors students have been recognized by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program. Scott Garner and Maya Gosztyla were named 2017 Goldwater…
Mathematician David Penneys’ new, $420,000 NSF Early CAREER Award funds work on "Representing and Classifying Enriched Quantum Symmetry." Symmetry plays an important role in mathematics and science…
A new, five-year, $700,00 NSF CAREER Award will help David Nagib, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, build better drugs. The grant funds critical work on Carbonyls, one of the most…
The Ratner Awards recognize faculty for making a difference in students' educations, lives and careers. Candidates are chosen for creative teaching and exemplary records of motivating and inspiring…
Last spring, Michael Mercil, professor, art, was awarded a 2016 Battelle Engineering, Technology and Human Affairs (BETHA) Endowment annual grant. BETHA grants support projects that examine the…
Andrea Holderbaum (BS, biology, 2016), fell in love with research while a student at Ohio State and fulfilled her dream of presenting her cancer research with the help of a travel award from an…
At their June 3 meeting, university trustees granted Distinguished University Professorships to Peter Culicover, Humanities Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, and Tina Henkin, the Robert W. and…
Chemist Abraham K. Badu-Tawiah's Early Career Award from DOE's Office of Science for his project, "Visible Light Photo-Catalysis in Charged Micro-Droplets," puts him in an elite group of the nation's…
Clark Spencer Larsen, distinguished professor of social and behavioral sciences; professor and and chair, Department of Anthropology, was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, one of…
Susan Van Pelt Petry, professor and former chair, Department of Dance, was honored April 23 for her outstanding contributions to the advancement of dance education at the 2016 OhioDance Festival and…
Margaret Ellen Newell, professor and vice chair, Department of History, has received the 2016 James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians (OAH).
History of Art Professor Julia F. Andrews is one of approximately 200 scholars, artists and researchers, nationwide, named 2016 Guggenheim Fellows. An acclaimed scholar, writer, teacher and curator,…
Eleven Arts and Sciences scholars and teachers — covering the diverse range of disciplines in arts and humanities, natural and physical sciences and social and behavioral sciences — won top…
Nima Dahir and Jackson Frazier (economics and mathematics) and fellow student Abd Al-Rahman Traboulsi (biomedical engineering), won the Resolution Social Venture Challenge (SVC) at the 2016 Clinton…
Arts and Sciences undergraduates — including aspiring dancers, writers and historians; physicists, Earth scientists and biologists; economists, psychologists and journalists — were among the 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 Schools.”
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.
Chuan Xue, assistant professor, mathematics, has received NSF's top award for junior researchers. Xue's new, five-year $408,628 NSF CAREER Award funds her work and that of her graduate students to…
Her new, five-year, $447,447 NSF CAREER Award funds Adriana Dawes, assistant professor of mathematics and molecular genetics', work on critically important cell processes, such as wound healing and…
Two arts and sciences senior honors students, Alexis Crockett (neuroscience and psychology) and Henry Tran (chemistry and mathematics), have been named 2016 Churchill Scholars. This is the first time…
Five Arts and Humanities faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences have received 2015 Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Awards, which recognize faculty for making a…
Christine Ballengee Morris, professor in the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy and founding director of Ohio State’s Multicultural Center, is one of six women to be honored as…
Ilhan Dahir (political science; English, 2015) has been named a 2016 Rhodes Scholar. The scholarship supports two years of graduate study at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom; 32…
Vladimir Kogan, assistant professor, political science; and Stéphane Lavertu, associate professor, John Glenn College of Public Affairs, are the recipients of a $632,778 Lyle Spencer Research Award…
Ann Hamilton, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Art at Ohio State, has been named a recipient of the 2014 National Medal of Arts.
Robert Baker, assistant professor, chemistry and biochemistry; is one of 50 outstanding young researchers nationwide receiving 2015 DOE Early Career Research Awards. The five year, $150,000/year…
Molecular Genetics Assistant Professor Anna Dobritsa’s new, three-year $772,000 NSF grant supports research on processes that are not only interesting to plant biologists, but to materials scientists.
Hyunju Kim, graduate student, arts administration, education and policy, has been selected as a recipient of an Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life/Joy of Giving Something, Inc. $2…
Ohio State dance alumna Dianne McIntyre is one of 20 recipients of a Doris Duke Impact Award, announced in June.
Physics Professor Louis DiMauro is project lead on a new six-institution, five-year $12.5M DoD MURI grant focused on interaction of intense, ultrafast mid-infrared radiation with matter. Other Ohio…
Chemist Anne Co's new, five-year $651,729 NSF CAREER Award will allow her to expand her research on electrocatalytic materials for chemical conversion and storage.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), U.S. Department of Labor, awarded a $52 million contract to Ohio State’s Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR) to continue to conduct the 1979 and 1997…
The Ohio State University has been ranked Number-One in the top 25 animation schools and colleges in the Midwest by Animation Career Review.
Two Arts and Sciences students — Ahran Koo and Sarah Levitt — are among the 18 graduate students selected for the 2015-16 class of Albert Schweitzer Fellows from Columbus and Athens.
Thirteen Arts and Sciences scholars and teachers won top university awards that recognize and honor outstanding performance and commitment to our land grant mission of scholarship, teaching and…
Recognizing superior teaching by faculty, nominated by students, alumni and colleagues, our distinguished teaching award winners have multiple pages of amazing testimony from their nominators. Those…
On April 21, six arts and sciences staff members were recognized for demonstrated sustained excellence in overall job performance and for improving or enhancing work life and services of faculty,…
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences' 197 new members include some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists; and civic, business and philanthropic leaders. Two of…
At ASC's spring recognition reception on April 13, Dean David Manderscheid presented faculty awards for mentoring; service; and scholarship. ASC Student Council Officers Ginamarie Shrader and Leila…
Three arts and sciences students were recognized by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program. Alexis Crockett, a junior in neuroscience and psychology; Henry Tran, a…
For the fourth year in a row, the Arts Initiative's Urban Arts Space has been named Best Art Gallery in the Columbus Alive reader's poll, announced late last month.
January and February Staff Winners: Above and Beyond Buckeye Prize
Two faculty members in Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences – Charles Atkinson and Leslie Lockett -- have been honored with prestigious awards this month by the Medieval Academy of America.
Claudia Buchmann, professor of sociology; Mike Vasey, professor of psychology and Bruce Weinberg, professor of economics, have been selected as Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellows for 2015 in recognition…
Deborah Smith-Shank has been chosen as one of three inaugural Kenneth Marantz USSEA Fellows by the United States Society for Education through Art (USSEA).
Marcos Sotomayor, assistant professor, chemistry and biochemistry, is one of a select group of 126 promising early-career scientists and scholars from the United States and Canada named 2015 Sloan…
Mathematician/computer scientist Anastasios (Tasos) Sidiropoulos' CAREER award funds a project that will look at the use of diverse mathematical tools in the setting of geometric data analysis,…
Mathematician Daniel Thompson's new NSF CAREER Award will support his core research program in pure mathematics and develop connections to the applied setting of bioinformatics. It also supports…
A leader in RNA research for four decades, Molecular Genetics Professor Anita Hopper will receive the ultimate professional tribute to the impact she has had on that field — the RNA Society's 2015…
Melanye White Dixon received the 2015 International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) Educator/Scholar Award.
Three projects spearheaded by Arts and Sciences faculty members have been named winners of Global Midwest grants from the Humanities without Walls consortium, for a total award amount of $77,000.
A new, five-year $2,608,207 NIH Grant allows an interdisciplinary team led by microbiologist Brian Ahmer to build on earlier research that identified a potential weakness to exploit Salmonella's…
Chemist Hannah Shafaat's new five-year,$520,000 NSF CAREER Award supports work centering on metalloenzymes that carry out valuable reactions important to alternative energy sources and clean energy…
A new, $2 million dollar grant from the Mellon Foundation gives recent Ohio State language PhD recipients the opportunity to teach and do research at one of five Ohio liberal arts colleges.
Three Arts and Sciences alumni have been honored with 2014 Media Arts Fellowship awards from the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC).
Joshua Kertzer (PhD, political science, 2013) was awarded a 2014 Council of Graduate Schools (CGS)/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, the nation’s highest honor for doctoral dissertations.
The recent renovation of Hopkins Hall on Ohio State’s campus is one of two projects to receive top honors from the 2014 AIA (American Institute of Architects) Columbus design awards
David Bartosic (journalism, 1975) made a gift of more than $4,000 to the Ohio State chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA).
Marcela Hernandez, director, ASC Grad/STEM Diversity, was selected to participate in the 2014 Society for Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Leadership…
Morgan Liu, associate professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, has won this year's Central Eurasian Studies Society Book of the Year Award.
Cheng Zhang awarded Science Visualization Fellowship at NASA.
Edward Malecki, professor, geography, has been selected by the American Geographical Society (AGS) to receive the Van Cleef Memorial Medal.
Richard Petty, professor and chair, psychology, has been named one of the most eminent psychologists of the modern era, by The American Psychological Association.
Five Arts and Humanities faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences have received inaugural Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Awards.
Department of Dance Alumnae Tyisha Nedd (BFA ’14) and Theresa Niermeyer (BFA ’14) were honored at Ohio State’s First Annual Civic Engagement Banquet Tuesday, Sept. 16, for their senior projects that…
B. Scott Gaudi, professor, astronomy, has been appointed professor and holder of The Thomas Jefferson Chair for Discovery and Space Exploration, which funds the study of grand-scale space exploration…
Matthew Pratola, assistant professor, statistics, won his profession's prized Wilcoxon Award for best paper of the year.
Astronomer B. Scott Gaudi's expertise in finding exoplanets has led to a new appointment as JPL Distinguished Visiting Scientist
Professor James Cowan, chemistry and biochemistry, was elected to one of the oldest (est. 1783), most respected academic societies, whose distinguished past presidents include Sir Walter Scott.
Americans for the Arts has honored 37 outstanding public arts projects created in 2013 through its Public Art Network Year in Review program, including two in Columbus: Goodale Park Fountain by…
Kate Calder, associate professor, statistics, is one of 63 outstanding statisticians around the country being named Fellow of the American Statistical Association in Boston next month.
Susan Olesik, Dow Professor of Chemistry and chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has received many top awards during her professional career. Her most recent, the 2014 Helen M. Free…
Design work done by Arts and Sciences Communications Services has been recognized with a silver medal by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, headquartered in Washington, D.C., with…
Statistics PhD candidate Andrew Landgraf has been selected one of 48 Fellows to participate in the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Fellowship Summer Program at the University of…
Ohio State Marching Band, music educators honored at Ohio Statehouse May 7.
A team that included students and alumni from the Department of Design has won first place in the Undergraduate Track of the Fisher College of Business 2014 Business Plan Competition, which took…
Web-based computer game Moon Rush, conceived by Ohio State graduate students Cheng Zhang (design/computer science engineering) and Sherri Larrimer, (design) has won the People’s Choice Award, based…
Eleven Arts and Sciences scholars and teachers won top university awards that recognize and honor outstanding performance and commitment to our land grant mission of scholarship, teaching and service.
Abby Carlozzo, a junior Honors student majoring in Dance and minoring in French and arts entrepreneurship, has been named a 2014 Beinecke Scholar.
Last week, the graduate student KAir team cleaned-up at the national Rice competition with a DOE Clean Energy Prize of $100,000
Each year, the College of Arts and Sciences recognizes outstanding performance by faculty and graduate students.
Rebecca Plumage, a junior majoring in psychology, has been named a 2014 Udall Scholar
Matthew Kahle, assistant professor, mathematics, wins second top award for early-career researchers.
Koritha Mitchell, associate professor, English, was honored with a Certificate of Congressional Recognition following her March 14 invited lecture at the Library of Congress
Jim Fowler, assistant professor, mathematics, received the 2014 Crestron Summum Bonum Award for Excellence in Teaching in recognition of the impact of his innovative work on thousands of students…
The Ohio State University Marching Band was recognized in February by Marching Band alumnus and Congressman Patrick J. Tiberi during the Second Session of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Geography Professor Daniel Sui has been selected by the Association of American Geographers (AAG) for its Distinguished Scholar Award in Regional Development and Planning.
The new research award from the Japanese government will help biochemist Kotaro Nakanishi set up his research program at Ohio State.
Jacob Bogart, senior honors student majoring in globalization studies and French with a minor in geography, has been named Ohio State’s first Luce Scholar.
Julie Golomb, assistant professor, psychology, has been awarded a 2014 Alfred Sloan Fellowship.
Dana Haynie, professor of sociology; and Jay Myung, professor of psychology, have been selected as 2014 Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellows
Psychology Professor Stephen Petrill has been appointed to a four-year term on the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development(NACHHD)Council of the National Institutes of Health
Ohio State alumnus Fernando Orellana is being honored with first place in the Vilcek Foundation's annual dARTboard Call For Entries in Digital Art.
Alumna Diane Smagatz-Rawlinson (Dance Education, 1983) has been honored with the 2014 Ruth Page Award, celebrating her dedication to teaching young dancers for nearly 30 years.
Astrophysicist Christopher Hirata is this year's winner of the top prize for young astronomy researchers--the Helen B. Warner Prize
Mathematics Professor Emerita Joan Leitzel received top distinguished service award from Mathematical Association of America
Ohio State topped the list of national research institutions awarded 2013-2014 Fulbright Scholars. Eight of the 14 are from ASC.
Christian Kleinbub, associate professor, history of art, has been awarded the 2013 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities from the Council of Graduate Schools.
A team of five statistics graduate students won the 2013 Capitol One Modeling Competition on November 22, competing against top teams from around the country.
John Freudenstein, professor, EEOB; Norm Johnson, professor, EEOB; David Mandersheid, mathematics professor and College of Arts and Sciences Executive Dean and Vice Provost; and Zucai Suo, professor,…
Earlier this month, the Society for Music Theory presented the Outstanding Publication Award to David Clampitt, associate professor and area head, theory and composition, and his co-author Thomas…
For the second consecutive year, Ohio State has ranked among the country's top Fulbright-producing institutions. This year –all arts and sciences students and alumni.
The Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC and the Columbus Film Council have announced the 2013 Media Arts Fellowship Finalists, and two of them are connected with the College of Arts and Sciences