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2019 Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professors
The College of Arts and Sciences is thrilled to announce its 2019 Distinguished Professor awards. This award serves to honor full professor colleagues who have excelled in teaching, service …
14 Arts and Sciences graduate students named Presidential Fellows
Fourteen graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences have received a Spring 2019 Presidential Fellowship, the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School at Ohio State. Awarded…
Gretchen Ritter is new executive dean and vice provost of Arts and Sciences
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…
A message from the provost welcoming the new executive dean and vice provost for the Arts and Sciences
Executive Vice President and Provost Bruce A. McPheron sent the message below to Ohio State colleagues announcing Gretchen Ritter as the next executive dean and vice provost for the College of…
Microbiology professor awarded $1.9 million NIH grant
Igor Jouline, the Rod Sharp Professor in the Department of Microbiology, has received a $1.9 million grant from the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) program of the National…
James Peck named chair of Department of Economics
James Peck, professor in the Department of Economics, was named chair of the department, effective July 1, 2019 (pending approval by the Board of Trustees). Peck has served as interim chair…
Mathematics outreach program teaches youth about the joys of math
Érika Roldán Roa remembers being introduced to the joy of mathematics through a book when she was younger.
The book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner and James Newman,…
32 Arts and Sciences students receive sesquicentennial scholarship
A celebration of The Ohio State University that is 150 years in the making includes a new scholarship program designed to develop current students into future leaders.
Ohio State awarded…
An artwork with the power of multiple universes
Imagine seeing the universe.
Now imagine seeing five.
That’s exactly what the room-sized, cosmology-inspired artwork “Island Universe” seeks to portray. The elaborate installation…