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Luis Casian named divisional dean for natural and mathematical sciences
Interim Executive Dean and Vice Provost Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier has appointed Luis Casian, professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics, to serve as the new divisional dean for natural…
Top honors for Arts and Sciences student, alumna
Students and alumni in the College of Arts and Sciences are no strangers to receiving awards and recognition. Among the college’s most recent award winners, fourth-year student Anna Voelker has…
Computational chemist receives $1.8 million grant to discover new heart drugs
Steffen Lindert, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and faculty member under the university’s Translational Data Analytics Discovery Theme, has received a five-…
2017 High Points
In the Arts and Sciences, 2017 was filled with extraordinary accomplishments, leading-edge teaching and research, and impactful philanthropy. Join us in reflecting upon the year’s high…
Statistics Professor Leads High-Impact Study of Adolescent Activity Patterns
Kate Calder, professor of statistics, leads a team of Ohio State researchers conducting an interdisciplinary, five-year study of adolescent health in an urban environment. The team, funded by a $1…
StatCrunch: A New Kind of Painting with Numbers
Before coming to Ohio State, Seattle native Ethan Pointer was stationed in Seoul, South Korea. The geographic information sciences (GIS) major, graduating in May 2018, “chose Ohio State…
Nothing Says Spring like DataFest
On April 1 — no fooling — 111 undergraduate students from all across campus formed teams and began a weekend-marathon of heavy-duty data wrangling. Hunkered over computers, crunching data,…
It’s All about Symmetry
Mathematics Assistant Professor David Penneys’ new, five-year, $420,000 National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award funds work on "Representing and Classifying…
NSF Research Training Group Grant Takes Ohio State Topology to Next Level
A new five-year, $1.72 million Research Training Group (RTG) grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences expands possibilities for an…