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As the 2026-2027 school year begins, the College of Arts and Sciences would like to welcome its new and returning department chairs, school directors and institute directors. These college leaders…
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…
One dataset. 48 hours. 100 students. Thousands of megabytes of data. For data analytics students and statistics faculty at The Ohio State University, these are the ingredients for one of the…
The College of Arts and Sciences maintains a strong national academic profile, with audiology ranked in the top 10 (6th among publics) and speech & hearing in the top 20 (16th among publics)…
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…
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…
Graduate students have a reputation for being solitary creatures, tucked away in a lab or in a corner of the library, diligently working away at a research project. But graduate education is more…
Wildfires leave behind devastation. In their wake, they destroy homes, businesses and wildlife. And according to research from assistant professor Kate Hu, their impact goes…
When Whetstone High School student Oliver Yetman began taking classes at The Ohio State University, he was a little apprehensive.
“As a high schooler, even if you look like you’re in college…
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,…
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…
As the 2025-2026 school year begins, the College of Arts and Sciences would like to welcome its new and returning department chairs, school directors and institute directors. These college leaders…
As artificial intelligence (AI) grows more sophisticated by the day, educators are finding new ways to incorporate it into their coursework. Its applications go beyond generative language and big…
Today, The Ohio State University announced it will build a student-centered and technology-rich space designed to facilitate and promote STEM learning. Thanks to $700,000 in grants from Meta’s New…
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…
The Steve and Diane Jones Scholarship is helping Buckeyes like neuroscience major Amy Torres and and math and computer science double major Alex Eichner address today’s pressing needs.
The Asia Society Hong Kong Center hosted David Horn, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University, for a conversation about “Why the Liberal Arts Matter” on February 7…
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…
Faculty, staff and students from The Ohio State University and distinguished guests joined Amgen representatives for the official opening celebration of the Amgen STEM Learning Center at Ramseyer…
Moving to a new place can be difficult for incoming Ohio State students. Acclimating to an entirely new university on top of that can seem even more daunting. A new program aims to alleviate some…
By harnessing the power of machine learning, researchers have constructed a framework for analyzing what factors most significantly contribute to a species’ genetic diversity.
“I felt a strong connection and sense of pride in being a Buckeye,” said Debora Ghebrehiwot, a biology pre-med student who traveled to London over spring break on the new Buckeyes Network Abroad…
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…
Imageomics, a new field of science, has made stunning progress in the past year and is on the verge of major discoveries about life on Earth, according to one of the founders of the discipline.
This research center and Nationwide Children’s Hospital are working together to create virtual reality training that will help staff calm patients.
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…
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…
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…
As we turn our calendars to 2023, we take a step back to evaluate the incredible College of Arts and Sciences stories we told in 2022. We are proud to present some of our top stories of the last…
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…
When it comes to the three-dimensional structure of DNA, Watson-Crick base pair formation between adenine (A) and thymine (T) and between guanine (G) and cytosine (C) has for decades been…
Andrew Martin has been appointed the College of Arts and Sciences' associate dean for undergraduate education for a five-year term, effective July 1, after serving in an interim capacity for the…
Steve Jones ’72 and Diane Jones ’72 have committed an additional $1.05 million to the Steve and Diane Jones Endowed Scholarship Fund over the next several years as well as other resources from their…
The Ohio State Keenan Center for Entrepreneurship established the President’s Buckeye Accelerator to support student founders preparing a startup for launch. Many Arts and Sciences students were part…
Ohio State was pivotal in computer and information science alumnus Claudius Mbemba's achievements as an entrepreneur, public speaker, advocate and — thanks to flash of serendipity — reality TV…
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…
Several departments in the Ohio State College of Arts and Sciences are home to graduate programs and specialty areas ranked among the nation’s best, according to the U.S. News & World Report 2023…
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…
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…
A new album being released is a musical record and a reflection of the time when it was made.
The Ohio State University mourns the loss of world-renowned artist, long-time faculty member and pioneer of digital art Charles “Chuck” Csuri, who passed peacefully in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, on…
Ten experts from the College of Arts and Sciences are featured speakers in the 2022 TEDxOhioStateUniversity event, "Bloom."
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…
The world is in the midst of the next mass extinction. By using artificial intelligence to scan thousands of photos of animals, Tanya Berger-Wolf, a professor of evolution, ecology and organismal…
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.
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.
The Dr. Harold "Hal" Miller and Betty J. Miller Endowed Professorship in Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry has been created In honor of chemistry alumnus Harold "Hal" Miller.
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.
Schlumberger, the world’s largest oilfield services company, has donated a software package that will further advance the research and educational pursuits of students and faculty in both The Ohio…
Buckeye Aha Math Moments (BAMM) has continued inspiring students of all ages to learn math with fun activities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
After winning 38 consecutive games of “Jeopardy!” earlier this year — and racking up more than $1.5 million in winnings — Matt Amodio still hasn’t made a splashy purchase.
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…
Professor of microbiology Matthew Sullivan is leading Ohio State's partnership on a new research center supported by the National Science Foundation. The Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial…
Join us as we welcome six newly appointed tenure-track faculty to the College of Arts and Sciences this autumn 2021.
Ohio State is teaming up with Cornell University and the University of Iowa on a project recently awarded $1.8 million from the Department of Energy that looks to explore new ways to exchange…
Physics Professor Daniel Gauthier and electrical, computer engineering Professor Emre Koksal and Potomac Research, LLC, received $1.1 million in funding from the U.S. Army to develop an innovative…
The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN), an Ohio State-led automated telescope network that observes the entire sky every night, received a combined $3 million in funding from the…
Matthew Sullivan, professor of microbiology and director of the Center of Microbiome Science, seeks to understand how the network of marine-dwelling viruses affects our seas, and he’s leveraging the…
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…
This year's TEDxOhioStateUniversity event, "Horizons," features experts from every corner of the College of Arts and Sciences — from the arts and humanities to the social and physical sciences.
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.
Roger Ratcliff, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Psychology, ranks among the top 1% worldwide in career-long citations across scientific fields, according to research published…
Are we alone in the universe? Ohio State astronomers are looking to a new satellite telescope, Twinkle, to find the answer. Twinkle, set to launch in late 2023, will look for biosignatures within the…
An international team of physicists, including professor of physics Louis DiMauro and postdoctoral researcher Yu Hang Lai, devised a new technique that drastically enhances the achievable resolution…
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…
Last month, The Ohio State University Board of Trustees approved the name change of the Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts, among several other significant milestones and philanthropic…
2020 was daunting and challenging, but the College of Arts and Sciences maintained its high level of excellence and innovation. We put together some of this year's high points that showcased how the…
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.
Steven Prohira is a neutrino hunter. The postdoctoral researcher at Ohio State's Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics is principal investigator on a new project, the NSF-funded Radar Echo…
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…
Undergraduate Tori Myers splits her time between her actuarial science major and her love of ballet, which, though perhaps seemly vastly different, actually share some fundamental similarities.
Arts and Sciences students are encouraged to weigh options and impacts of pass/non-pass options with their advisors.
Ohio State's upcoming National Extreme Ultrafast Science Facility (NeXUS) will house a laser that will allow researchers a better look at ultrafast electron motion. A user workshop was recently held…
Ohio State is one of 14 universities from around the globe that have been awarded $12.5 million from the National Science Foundation to launch a new Biology Integration Institute called EMERGE, which…
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.
Astronomers are preparing to further study the atmospheres of planets discovered through NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission to identify the most promising exoplanets —…
The June 2020 trustees meeting recognized significant and historic philanthropic contributions and support across multiple departments and areas. The gifts helped the College of Arts and Sciences…
The Center for Emergent Materials recently received $18 million in Materials Research Science and Engineering Center funding from the National Science Foundation. The support will advance the center…
Take a look back at the transformations and accomplishments of students, faculty and staff in the face of unprecedented challenges during spring 2020.
A two-year, $200,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation will fund graduate student research in Bear Braumoeller's Modeling Emergent Social Order Lab, using computational modeling to better…
Eight Arts and Sciences faculty have been appointed chairs or directors of units within the college.
The Electron-Ion Collider — set to be complete in 2030 — will smash electrons and protons together to give physicists a better idea of the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Yuri Kovchegov,…
Physics professor Richard Furnstahl, Distinguished University Professor of Physics Ulrich Heinz, and statistics professor Matthew Pratola are members of a new, NSF-funded project, the Bayesian…
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…
An analysis of public transit use across the U.S. reveals where essential workers rely more on public transportation while prompting questions about building sustainable, resilient cities in the…
Arts and Sciences faculty were selected to college leadership roles: Susan Olesik, Dean for Natural and Mathematical Sciences; Christopher Jaroniec, Associate Dean for Research and Creative Inquiry;…
The impacts of climate change aren't just felt on coastlines, glaciers or oceans. Environmental shifts are felt in Ohio, too. Bryan Mark, state climatologist and professor of geography, and Aaron…
A new university funding program under the Office of Research that aims to rapidly address critical health and community problems related to COVID-19 has awarded funding to nine total research…
Alumna Jordan Davis wanted to do more to help Columbus respond to the coronavirus, and a group of Buckeyes from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Fisher College of Business helped make her…
Arts and Sciences juniors Emily Osborne, Eitan Rothberg and Sarthak Shah have received the most prestigious national award for undergraduate researchers in science, math and engineering.
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…
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.
The Department of Astronomy's Sultana Nahar and Anil Pradhan organized Ohio State's partnership with India's Aligarh Muslim University to help train Indian academics in university leadership. The…
The Department of Mathematics is spreading the word about recreational math through its outreach program, Buckeye Aha! Math Moments, which uses brainteaser puzzles to spark an interest in math among…
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.
"Voices of Excellence," a podcast showcasing the work of faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, is celebrating its one-year anniversary by sitting down with host and associate professor of…
Amanda Hummon, chemistry and biochemistry, and Chuan Xue, mathematics, were granted the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
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.
Gretchen Ritter, a leading expert in the history of women's constitutional rights and contemporary issues concerning democracy and citizenship in American politics, has been appointed executive dean…
We welcome Gretchen Ritter, the new executive dean and vice provost for the College of Arts and Sciences.
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.
James Peck, professor in the Department of Economics, was named chair of the department, effective July 1, 2019. Peck has served as interim chair since July 2018.
Érika Roldán Roa, a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, leads "Buckeye Aha! Math Moments," an outreach program dedicated to teaching youth about the joy of math. The…
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
The cosmology-inspired art installation “Island Universe” was created by Josiah McElheny in collaboration with David Weinberg, chair of the Department of Astronomy at Ohio State.
Awarded each semester to graduate students of outstanding scholarship, the Presidential Fellowship gives fellows one year of full-time financial support.
In a first-of-its-kind scientific breakthrough, scientists have programmed proteins to pair exactly, similar to the way DNA molecules zip together.
The College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State has launched five new undergraduate majors, all of which incorporate emerging trends and issues into carefully designed, interdisciplinary academic…
A new analytics approach co-developed by Bryan Carstens, professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology, identifies 15,000 at-risk plant species.
Pomerene Hall is a storied and iconic feature of campus, and the building’s history and integrity have been revived with its first major updates in nearly a century.
Gary and Connie Sharpe wanted to foster a space at Ohio State where new ideas could not only blossom, but thrive — so they founded the new Geography Innovation Commons in Derby Hall.
The College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State has launched a new podcast highlighting the research of its faculty and staff: Voices of Excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences.
Jean-François Lafont, professor in the Department of Mathematics, was named interim chair of the department, effective Aug. 1, 2018, through July 31, 2019.
To track rapid climate change in the Arctic, Ohio State researchers helped create the first high-resolution digital elevation maps of the region.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Mathematician Matthew Kahle is PI on a five-year, $1.72 million NSF Research Training Group Grant, supporting an interdisciplinary working group in algebraic topology, applied topology and related…
Sanjeevi Krishnan, assistant professor, math, has received a three-year, $509,998.00 Air Force Office of Science Research (AFOSR) Award. It advances his work in algebraic topology, which has…
93 undergraduates, 25 different majors in 5 colleges, competed for prizes during DataFest, an intense April weekend event. Hosted by statistics and the data analytics major, student teams feverishly…
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…
Arts and Sciences undergraduates — including aspiring dancers, writers and historians; physicists, Earth scientists and biologists; economists, psychologists and journalists — were among the top…
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…
A virtual village is being created at Ohio State. The project, a collaboration headed by Ken Rinaldo, professor, Department of Art, and David Staley, professor, Department of History, aims to…
Buckeye Certified is a new web portal being piloted by Buckeye Careers, and ASC students will be among the first at Ohio State to participate.