Welcome to the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State Dear friends, This past year, marking the college’s sixth anniversary, was another banner year — increased research expenditures, fundraising, and quality and quantity of faculty and student awards and honors. While it would be impossible to capture all of the outstanding achievement of this exceptional year in one small — or even large — document, we would like to share some high points and introduce you to a few of our superstars reflecting the scope of our impact. Each day, we see more and more evidence confirming the power and impact of an arts and sciences education. Technology and business are demanding more liberal arts graduates, and national studies continue to show that a versatile skill set produces productive careers and longterm fulfillment. This is particularly true for students studying the arts and sciences at Ohio State. Our land-grant heritage inspires us to provide a supportive, student-centered environment and world-class education that give our students a competitive edge and the ability to make a difference in the world. With access to top-tier faculty and a wide range of majors and minors, they have every opportunity to follow their dreams. Take a look at what we’ve accomplished in one short year and how we plan to grow. You will clearly see why we are so proud. Sincerely,
David Manderscheid Executive Dean and Vice Provost
Susan Williams Vice Dean, Faculty Affairs
Janet Box-Steffensmeier Divisional Dean, Graduate Education Social and Behavioral Sciences
Christopher Hadad Divisional Dean, Research Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Peter Hahn Divisional Dean, Outreach and Engagement Arts and Humanities
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AT A GLANCE 38
Departments and Schools 20+ Centers and Institutes 2,000 Faculty and Staff
81 Majors
100+ Minors
Instruction in 30 Languages $284m Budget $86m Research Expenditures $259m Endowment
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Endowed Professorships
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Endowed Chairs
201,000+ Living Alumni
CONTENTS 4 STRATEGIC PLAN 8 2016-17 HIGHLIGHTS Today’s graduates will spend their careers in a global environment that demands the ability to be nimble and responsive. Arts and Sciences is in the position, with your support, to provide the ideal education to take on such a future.
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12 STUDENTS STUDENT AWARDS 16 FACULTY FACULTY AWARDS 20 RESEARCH KEY INITIATIVES 24 CREATIVE ACTIVITY KEY INITIATIVES 28 STUDY ABROAD & FIELD WORK 30 OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT 34 SPACES 38 CAMPUS FOOTPRINT
2017-2022 STRATEGIC PLAN The 2017-2022 College of Arts and Sciences strategic plan was developed in parallel with the university’s new strategic plan, Time and Change, to assure that our focus and trajectory are aligned with its overarching goals. We have created a complementary plan incorporating university themes and planning intent while devising strategies to address the college’s unique strengths, challenges and opportunities. All planning and the implementation to follow seeks to advance the college and the university by following the university’s stated mission and values.
WHAT OHIO STATE DOES MATTERS. OUR RESPONSIBILITY OVER THE NEXT 150 YEARS IS TO BE A FIXED BEACON TO ILLUMINATE THE PATH TO THE AMERICAN DREAM AND ADDRESS THE MOST PRESSING ISSUES OF OUR TIME. Time and Change, Ohio State's Strategic Plan: Enable, Empower and Inspire go.osu.edu/strategicplan
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University Mission and Values The University is dedicated to: • • • • •
Creating and discovering knowledge to improve the well-being of our state, regional, national and global communities; Educating students through a comprehensive array of distinguished academic programs; Preparing a diverse student body to be leaders and engaged citizens; Fostering a culture of engagement and service; Understanding that diversity and inclusion are essential components of our excellence.
Ohio State's core values are: excellence; diversity in people and of ideas; inclusion; access and affordability; innovation; collaboration and multidisciplinary endeavor; and integrity, transparency and trust.
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TEACHING AND LEARNING
ACCESS, AFFORDABILITY AND EXCELLENCE
RESEARCH AND CREATIVE EXPRESSION
ACADEMIC HEALTH CARE
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE AND RESOURCE STEWARDSHIP
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College of Arts and Sciences Vision and Values To continue our commitment to access, affordability, and excellence, we must effectively marshal and leverage our resources. Thus, strategic planning, stewardship, accountability, and transparency are more important than ever. We need to build a case for our value, outcomes, and excellence for students, faculty, staff, donors, corporate and
Vision To support and advance these institutional objectives, the College of Arts and Sciences’ long-term vision is to be a recognized leader, on campus and beyond, in teaching and learning, research and creative activity, and outreach and engagement, to serve the State of Ohio and the nation. Values Our various disciplines have different academic cultures and practices that contribute to our comprehensive strength. Within that variety of disciplinary norms, we value practices and innovations that embrace and exhibit diversity, inclusive excellence, community-building, accountability, transparency, and creativity.
community partners, friends, alumni and legislators.
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STRATEGIC PRIORITIES To realize our vision and advance our values, we have defined one underlying principle and five key areas of focus that support direction-setting and decision-making across the college.
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Excellent Faculty and Programs The College of Arts and Sciences is the academic heart of Ohio State. Outstanding and well-supported faculty, staff and academic programs are essential to achieving top-tier education and research throughout the university.
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Build and maintain top programs
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Retain and recruit excellent and diverse faculty and staff
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Boost research
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Elevate teaching and learning
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Build and enhance top graduate programs
Access, Affordability and Student Success As the standard bearer for the value of education in the arts and sciences at a great public research institution, we must be leaders in finding ways to make that education affordable and accessible while promoting value-added opportunities to ensure undergraduate and graduate student success.
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Develop more pathways to enhance student success — on campus and beyond
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Recruit and retain members of underrepresented groups
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Expand scholarship opportunities
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Expand support for graduate students
Outreach and Engagement As part of our land-grant heritage and long legacy of community engagement and partnership, the College of Arts and Sciences has a steadfast commitment to creating and supporting reciprocal community collaborations and recognizes the important role our community plays in improving our programs and our students’ success.
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Expand and coordinate community support and involvement — Columbus and statewide
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Enhance alumni engagement — mentorship, collaboration, investment
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Increase engagement of employers and corporate partners
Underlying principle Diversity and inclusion are essential components of excellence and will infuse our strategic thinking in all areas.
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Leadership and Advocacy We must be leaders in advocating for and articulating the enduring and practical value of majors and minors in the arts and sciences on campus and beyond.
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Advocate for the power and lasting value of both the content and the skills acquired through an arts and sciences education
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Cultivate a distinguished and distinctive reputation on campus and beyond
Resource Stewardship and Growth We are dedicated to achieving greater effectiveness and efficiency and to growing revenue, with a commitment to direct as many resources as possible toward our academic mission.
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Leverage and maximize resources
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Expand the college budget to better support students, staff and faculty
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2016-17 HIGHLIGHTS Bang, Pow! Two permanently endowed named chairs are being created in the College of Arts and Sciences as a result of a $6 million gift from the Board of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and Dorothy Lichtenstein. Internationally known pop artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)
earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Ohio State and served on the art faculty for five years. The endowments will support the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Endowed Chair of Art History and the Roy Lichtenstein Endowed Chair of Studio Art.
image: “Masterpiece,” 1962, copyright Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
“These positions ensure that generations of students and faculty will be encouraged to experiment, explore and reinterpret American modernism through an ever-changing lens. Our faculty is energized by this extraordinary gift and is looking forward to adding two senior scholars to their departments.” {David Manderscheid, Executive Dean and Vice Provost, College of Arts and Sciences}
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J.D. Vance Comes Home to Ohio J.D. Vance is author of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. His book took the nation by storm, as its subject matter — the struggles of America’s white working class — dovetailed with a contentious presidential election. Vance has joined the Department of Political Science as scholar-in-residence, working with undergraduates to study public policies addressing the state’s opioid crisis, and employment and educational challenges impacting all Ohioans. In spring 2017, the college recognized Vance with the YOUNG ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.
Adolescent Health in an Urban Environment Kate Calder, professor of statistics, is leading a team of Ohio State researchers to conduct an innovative and interdisciplinary five-year study of adolescent health in an urban environment. The team, funded by a $1.55 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, includes Christopher Browning, professor of sociology; Srinivasan Parthasarathy, professor of computer science and engineering; and Bethany Boettner, senior research associate in the Institute for Population Research. The study will provide a better understanding of how spending time in violence-prone
locations and in areas of high social and physical disorder affects physiological stress in adolescents. “We are particularly interested in measuring exposure to violence and to social and physical disorder and exploring the relationship between these exposures and a bio-measure of physiological stress,” said Calder. This first-of-its kind study will focus on co-location networks of Franklin County adolescents, using data from the ongoing Adolescent Health and Development in Context (AHDC) study. Results will have broad applicability to problems ranging from the information flow in social networks to the spread of infectious diseases across cities.
Testifying for Biliteracy Kate Greer is a second-year student studying German and history — and she has a lot to say. She testified before the Ohio House Education committee when she was a senior in high school. She pushed lawmakers to adopt the Seal of Biliteracy, which can be attached to high school transcripts or diplomas to show proficiency in a foreign language. This year (2017-2018), she will serve as director of academic affairs for Undergraduate Student Government.
“I realized that this initiative would avow Ohio’s values for diversity and multiculturalism, and it also has the potential to make Ohio students even more valuable in the global job market, where the 21st century skill of bilingualism is highly valued.” {Kate Greer} WATCH VIDEO FEATURE
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The Hottest Planet Astronomer Scott Gaudi, the Thomas Jefferson Professor for Discovery and Space Exploration, co-led an international team that discovered the hottest planet on record. According to Gaudi, it is so hot that it stretches the definition of the word “planet.” It’s a planet by any of the typical definitions based on mass, but its atmosphere is almost certainly unlike any other known. Its day-side temperature, more than 7,800 degrees, is hotter than most stars, and only 2,000 degrees or so cooler than our Sun. The team has been tracking the distinctly odd planet, named KELT-9b, since mid-2014. The star that the planet orbits is called KELT-9. It is found about 650 light years away from Earth in the Cygnus constellation.
“Whenever we find systems like KELT-9, systems that stretch the boundaries of what we consider extreme, typically we always learn something new about planets, the relationship to their host stars, and the atmospheres of giant planets.” {Scott Gaudi}
Energy Stars Two STEM researchers each received a five-year, 2017 DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (DOE) EARLY CAREER AWARD to advance their high-impact energy research. Hannah Shafaat, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Kelly Wrighton, assistant professor of microbiology, were chosen from a nationwide pool of more than 700 applicants. Wrighton’s $797,000 award “targets knowledge gaps” in microbial methane processes in soil to improve carboncycling transport models across terrestrial-aquatic environments. Shafaat aims to “bring inorganic carbon to life.” Her $750,000 grant will support the development and characterization of model nickel enzymes that can efficiently convert carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide into liquid fuels.
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President’s Prize KayMesha Knox (BA, English, 2016) was one of two graduating seniors selected in November 2016 to receive the first-ever PRESIDENT’S PRIZE, created by Ohio State President Michael V. Drake. The prize is the highest recognition Ohio State bestows on exceptional students committed to social change. Knox received a one-year, $50,000 living stipend and up to $50,000 in startup funding to implement an innovative project to positively impact a community. Steps to Success will help lighten 50 East High School seniors’ financial burdens next year by providing laptops and wireless Internet access and will also create a support system by pairing them with college mentors who can identify with their struggles.
“I know what a difference having a support system can make. I want these students to know that someone believes in them and believes that they have what it takes to succeed.” {KayMesha Knox}
Parking by Design Parking on campus can be a frustrating endeavor. CampusParc is the first to admit it. That’s why the parking organization enlisted a group of 18 senior visual communication design students to help make parking a better experience for visitors and permit holders. Student teams were tasked with solving the design problem through conducting research and developing insights to enhance customer experiences.
Bringing Speech Services to Rural Schools
The teams presented their projects to their professors and CampusParc leaders in December. Their solutions ranged from social media campaigns for relating better with clients to garage murals, wayfinding systems, rewards and perks, and rebranding the organization.
As part of its ongoing efforts to bring much-needed screening and intervention services to underserved communities, Ohio State’s SpeechLanguage-Hearing Clinic launched a pilot program with Shekinah Christian School in Plain City, Ohio. As in many small, rural schools, many of the children had never been screened for hearing or speech-language abilities. Using state-of-the-art ultrasound technology and traditional speech language-therapy techniques, Ohio State staff and graduate students tested and provided therapy to more than 60 Shekinah students.
“Working with a real-life design challenge allowed us to flex our creative muscles, practice our research principles and learn how to juggle the client’s desires with the users’ needs to create a practical solution.”
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STUDENTS
Cole Henry Jones (BFA, 2018) grew up in Columbus and is majoring in dance with a minor in creative writing. He is the recipient of the President’s Affordability Grant and the Ohio College Opportunity Grant, giving him the financial support to excel both in the studio and the classroom.
“As a non-traditional student, I had to balance working with paying tuition and paying attention to my studies. These grants are very, very helpful and have given me some financial stability, allowing me to cut back on work hours and to focus on what I need to.” {Cole Henry Jones} 12 | asc.osu.edu
INCOMING 2017-18 ACADEMIC PROFILE:
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At Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences, knowledge is not the means to an end. It’s the start of whatever comes next. You’d never guess you’re at one of the nation’s largest research universities; it’s like a liberal arts college, tucked into a leading public university. Today’s graduates will spend their careers moving forward in a global environment that demands the ability to be responsive and versatile. Our student-centered environment challenges and supports our students to follow any path and achieve success.
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Gorillas in our Midst Ashley Edes, graduate student in anthropology, is the first to conduct a study on how zoo-housed gorillas’ social relationships can affect and decrease their stress levels over their lifetime. She conducts her research at a handful of zoos around the country, including the Columbus Zoo. The American Society of Primatologists (ASP) recognized Edes’ work with the ASP Primate Welfare Award.
“The Department of Anthropology’s combination of high standards and open collaboration has given me many of the critical skills necessary to become an accomplished scholar in primatology.” {Ashley Edes}
Top 10% of their high school class
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Top 25% of their high school class Average ACT: 29 Average SAT new: 1339 old: 1248
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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS* Composition: Female: 54% Male: 46% Underrepresented Minorities: 11% First Generation: 20% Honors & Scholars: 20% In State: 76% Out of State: 15% International: 9% Double Majors: 12% Major + Minor: 23%
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GRADUATE STUDENTS* Composition: Male: 50% Female: 50% Underrepresented Minorities: 8% Out of State 43% In State: 29% International: 28%
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STUDENT AWARDS Undergraduate Our students are consistently recognized, nationally and internationally, for their excellence in research and scholarship and are recipients of distinguished awards including the Goldwater, Beinecke, Churchill and Rhodes Scholarships.
Graduate Each year, our distinguished graduate students are selected for top honors including the Fulbright-Hays, Fulbright, NSF Predoctoral Fellowship and Schweitzer Awards.
Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award Miriame Diabate, biology, and LeRoy Ricksy, Jr., criminology, were honored with the university’s 2017 DISTINGUISHED DIVERSITY ENHANCEMENT AWARD for exceeding expectations in demonstrating the university's values. Learn more about our collaborative
Diabate is president of the African Youth League and is committed to improving the lives and educational opportunities of Ohio State African students by championing diversity and emphasizing inclusion.
community of educators, creators, scholars and scientists go.osu.edu/ asc-spotlights.
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Ricksy has helped to establish several programs at Ohio State dedicated to cultural and societal diversity, including A Day in the Life of a Buckeye, which introduces urban and rural high school students to life at Ohio State, and Mentor-A-Buckeye, which connects ninth-grade high school students with Ohio State students and community leaders who guide them through high school and college applications.
Goldwater Scholars Maya Gosztyla, a third-year molecular genetics and neuroscience student, has conducted clinically relevant developmental genetics research at both Ohio State and Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Gosztyla, editor of an international student journal, Journal of Young Investigators, has created AlzScience, a blog about the science of Alzheimer's disease and brain health to make science accessible for the public.
Ece Karaca, a graduate student in design from Ankara, Turkey, won first place in the 31st EDWARD F. HAYES GRADUATE RESEARCH FORUM for her thesis research, “Interactive Data Visualization: An application used to illuminate the environmental effects of the Syrian War.” The forum showcases innovative and exemplary research being conducted by Ohio State graduate students across the full range of graduate degree programs and facilities.
“While working on practice-led research, I focused on visualizing the environmental issues the Syrian war has caused. The original work is exhibited in an interactive format at ACCAD (Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design), and I demonstrated the project on a big-scale, multi-touch screen.” {Ece Karaca}
Scott Garner, a third-year chemistry student, studies spectroscopy of reactive chemical intermediates, Jahn-Teller distortions in atmospherically important nitrate radicals. Garner is the Chemistry Club VP, Pay It Forward site leader and Science Olympiad volunteer. The coolest thing he’s done? “Spending a summer interning for the FBI, conducting toxicology research.”
Tillman Military Scholar Gretchen Klingler, third-year anthropology and Arabic language and literature student, was named a 2017 TILLMAN MILITARY SCHOLAR in recognition of her service, leadership and potential. She is also the first recipient of Ohio State’s 2017 VETERAN AND MILITARY STUDENT OF THE YEAR award. This first-generation Buckeye from West Liberty, Ohio, is an Air Force veteran and president of Ohio State’s chapter of Student Veterans of America.
“Being a part of the veteran community at Ohio State means I don’t have to leave a part of my life behind or forget my experiences that have brought me here.” {Gretchen Klingler}
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FACULTY Arts and Sciences faculty perform at the highest levels in teaching, research and service — the three tenets of the great land-grant institutions. They engage in multidimensional, collaborative research, scholarship and creative activity that drive discovery and innovation locally, nationally and worldwide.
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Collaborative @OSU Wendy Smooth, associate professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies, is leading Ohio State’s participation in a national initiative, The Collaborative to Advance Equity Through Research, which includes more than 50 institutions uniting to close the gaps in research regarding women and girls of color. The initiative began under the Obama White House’s Council on Women and Girls. Ohio State’s effort, The Collaborative @OSU, is dedicated to building a research and learning community focused on improving the status of women and girls of color. She also holds a courtesy appointment in political science.
Each One, Teach One Anthony Stanco is a lecturer in jazz studies in the School of Music. He leads The Crucial Elements, a nationally recognized, five-piece jazz ensemble that tours with the U.S. State Department’s America Music Abroad program, an international endeavor to promote cultural exchange and to share America’s rich musical contributions with global audiences. Stanco and his group have recently toured Kyrgyzstan and Saudi Arabia.
“We’re really trying to spread love and positivity though music across the world while being ambassadors for America. In jazz, we say ‘each one, teach one.’” {Anthony Stanco}
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“The Collaborative @OSU is an incredible opportunity to build a robust university-wide scholarly research and learning community centered on women and girls of color. Ohio State has the resources to make a significant contribution to shaping the conversation on the status of women and girls of color and close the gaps in what we don’t know, what we don’t understand regarding women and girls of color.” {Wendy Smooth}
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FACULTY AWARDS Emerging Scholar Prize Assistant Professor of Sociology Hollie Nyseth Brehm was selected by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) for the 2017 EMERGING SCHOLAR PRIZE. Brehm’s work focuses on the causes and processes of genocide and on how countries rebuild in the aftermath of atrocity. She has lived and worked in Rwanda and Bosnia, where she interviewed both perpetrators and victims of genocide. In a relatively short time at Ohio State, Brehm has become a highly respected instructor, mentor and researcher. In 2016, she was recognized for her superior teaching with the ALUMNI AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED TEACHING.
“While many people believe that genocide is unpredictable, I study how it is actually patterned by creating models to better understand the factors that influence why, when and how genocide occurs. I hope to help build the sociology of genocide into an established research paradigm.” {Hollie Nyseth Brehm}
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences Three Arts and Sciences faculty were elected to the 237th class of the AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES (pictured l - r at top): Janet Box-Steffensmeier, one of the top political methodologists in the country, is divisional dean, graduate studies, social and behavioral sciences; Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science; Distinguished University Scholar; and affiliated faculty member with Ohio State’s Translational Data Analytics Discovery Theme. Russell Fazio, the Harold E. Burtt Chair in Psychology, is an internationally prominent scientist recognized for his numerous contributions to theory and research on attitudes and social cognition. Geoffrey Parker, considered one of his generation’s most influential historians, is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History, Distinguished University Professor, associate of Ohio State’s Mershon Center for International Security Studies and recipient of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize.
38 Guggenheim Fellows 9 National Academy of Sciences Members 22 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Members 2 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Dr. A.H Heineken Prize Recipients 1 MacArthur Fellow 35 NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) Award winners 1 National Medal of Sciences 1 National Medal of Arts 1 American Academy of Arts and Letters Fellow 4 Department of Energy Early Career Awards
Ratner Distinguished Teaching Awards Five arts and humanities faculty members received 2016 RONALD AND DEBORAH RATNER DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARDS, which recognize faculty for making a difference in students’ educations, lives and careers. Award recipients are: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, linguistics; Tommy Davis, English; Tom Hawkins, classics; Jennifer Schlueter, theatre; and Karl Whittington, history of art. In 2014, Ronald and Deborah Ratner of Cleveland generously gave $1 million to establish the awards.
Distinguished University Professor The Ohio State University awards the permanent, honorific title of DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR to full professors who have truly exceptional records in teaching, research, scholarly or creative work and service. Clark Spencer Larsen is distinguished professor of social and behavioral sciences and former chair of the Department of Anthropology. He is one of the most respected, productive and engaged physical anthropologists working today. David Weinberg is distinguished professor of mathematical and physical sciences and chair of Department of Astronomy. He is considered one of the most original and creative astrophysicists of his generation.
“What has always interested me most about science is the way that theoretical ideas and empirical data interact to create new understanding. In astronomy, there is constant exchange between theory and observations, so I’m always working at that edge where one of them informs the other.” {David Weinberg}
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RESEARCH In every area of the Arts and Sciences, our innovative faculty, students and collaborators worldwide are exploring existing and emerging global challenges. Their game-changing discoveries profoundly affect our lives and are funded by all major federal and state granting agencies, with additional support from business, industry and private foundations.
36% Departments of Energy, Labor, Defense and Other Federal Agencies 28% National Science Foundation 25% National Institutes of Health 10% Industry, Private and Other Non-Federal Agencies 1% State of Ohio
Multinational Study on Social and Emotional Skills in Children The Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR) was selected by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to help lead a multinational study on social and emotional skills in children. The Study on Social and Emotional Skills (SSES) will survey 10 and 15 year olds in cities around the world to identify the conditions and practices that foster or hinder the development of those critical skills.
“We want to end up with an improved understanding of how social and emotional skills contribute to children’s development.” {Elizabeth Cooksey}
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The ultimate goal of the study is to be able to recommend policies and practices to support that skill development. Elizabeth Cooksey, professor of sociology and director of CHRR, leads the study along with Randall Olsen, professor emeritus of economics and former CHRR director. CHRR has extensive experience running large, complex social science surveys. Founded in 1965, the center specializes in developing survey software and instruments, overseeing field work, and generating and disseminating fully documented data sets. CHRR has helped administer the National Longitudinal Surveys — three separate surveys that have followed more than 30,000 Americans for years — since its inception nearly 50 years ago.
Ruchika Shaurya Prakash, associate professor of psychology, is director of the Department of Psychology’s Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory. Prakash examines the efficacy of psychosocial lifestyle interventions, such as physical activity training and mindfulness meditation, in preserving and improving cognitive control and emotion regulation in older adults and in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). Prakash has been recognized as a “Rising Star,” a young luminary poised to revolutionize the field, by the Association for Psychological Science.
“For a long time, MS patients were told not to exercise because there was a fear it could exacerbate their symptoms, but we’re finding that if MS patients exercise in a controlled setting, it can actually help them with their cognitive function.” {Ruchika Shaurya Prakash}
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KEY INITIATIVES Folklore Studies Field School
ASAS-SN
The Center for Folklore Studies, with the support of an anonymous donation from the Columbus Foundation, is conducting field schools in Ohio in summer 2017 and 2018. In spring 2017, eight students spent spring break in Portsmouth, Ohio, working with diverse and intergenerational community partners to explore life in this Appalachian community. They documented spaces and events, interviewed rural and city residents, gathered stories and images, and detailed ways the community preserves a sense of place in the face of economic, environmental and cultural change. Their research findings will be preserved in the center’s Folklore Archives and in local repositories.
A five-year, $2.4 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation will open new windows for Ohio State’s All-Sky Automated Search for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) initiative. It funds two new observatories and doubles the total number of ASAS-SN telescopes to 16, making it possible to observe the entire visible sky every night, providing real-time, public alerts of new astronomical transients. Astronomy Professors Krzysztof (Kris) Stanek, Christopher Kochanek and Todd Thompson lead the project.
DOE Physics Research A Department of Energy three-year, $5.65 million grant to Ohio State’s High Energy Physics Group — a major player in worldwide efforts to untangle the elemental mysteries of the universe, including finding the elusive Higgs boson in 2012 — funds wide-ranging projects in fundamental physics of 13 faculty researchers, their postdocs and graduate students.
State Climate Office of Ohio The new State Climate Office of Ohio (SCOO), a team of researchers, educators, climatologists and meteorologists from the Department of Geography, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and OSU Extension, serves as the steward of climate data and education, research and outreach for the people of Ohio. Led by Bryan Mark, geography professor and Ohio’s State Climatologist, SCOO will greatly expand agricultural weather outreach; enhance reporting of key data to individual farmers, planners and local officials; and mobilize resources to address climate change in Ohio.
The new State Climate Office of Ohio team includes (pictured above l-r) Aaron Wilson, Jim DeGrand, Bryan Mark, Jason Cervenec and Wesley Haines.
David Nagib, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is on a mission to build better medicine with his recent NSF CAREER AWARD. The $700,000 award boosts Nagib’s critical work on carbonyls, one of the most important building blocks in the synthesis of new medicines. The grant funds Nagib’s research, “Anomeric Activation Strategy for Catalytic, Ketyl Radical Reactivity,” as well as several multifaceted outreach programs including a summer research internship program for high school and college students across Ohio; a hands-on community engagement program encouraging local school students to interact with his lab; and a new visual outreach project, “Radical Life. Animated,” which shows how free radicals are involved in our daily life from cooking French fries, activating air bags, manufacturing tires and even making smart phones thinner.
“Carbonyls, an important building block in the synthesis of new medicines, have required strong metal reductants, which can be toxic, expensive and incompatible with medicine’s common functional groups, to access their reactivity. Our new strategy can bypass these problems.” {David Nagib}
Moving Toward a Quantum Leap Yuan-Ming Lu, assistant professor of physics, received a fiveyear, $477,294 NSF CAREER AWARD to support research on developing new ways to detect and design topological orders, highly desirable for their potential applications, such as fault-tolerant “topological quantum computation.”
“Although quantum computing won’t be available any time soon, information processing in a topological quantum computer will achieve a whole new level of computational power and accuracy.” {Yuan-Ming Lu}
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CREATIVE ACTIVITY The College of Arts and Sciences champions scholarship, creative activity and performance, and promotes an environment for students and faculty to inspire, discover and create on campus and beyond. We are strengthening ties with local, national and international arts organizations and, over the next two decades, millions will be invested in a vibrant Arts District at High Street and 15th Avenue, the university’s front door.
1750+ 380+ Silent Soldiers Memorial The Silent Soldiers Memorial on April 6, 2017, was a “live art” event marking the 100th anniversary of the United States’ entry into World War I. It was inspired by an installation on July 1, 2016, in the United Kingdom that acknowledged the centenary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme. The Ohio State event featured more than 20 students, wearing WWI-style uniforms, making their way across campus and singing “We’re Here Because We’re Here,” a song sung by British soldiers as they entered battle. Partners included the Department of History, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Thompson Library and Wexner Center for the Arts.
“The Silent Soldiers Memorial was to mark the U.S. entry into World War I both as a centenary and also by making a statement that this is an important moment in American history and we need to remember it. We’re doing this at a time when conflict is still happening around the world, and many in our military are involved in it.” {Lesley Ferris, Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of Theatre}
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“Columbus is home to 55,000 Somalis, the second largest community in the United States. We wanted to highlight the ways that Somali Americans are actively participating in their communities here in Columbus.� {Ruth Smith, PhD, arts administration, education and policy, 2014}
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University Press Imprints The Ohio State University Press is branching out with two new book lines, or imprints — Trillium and Mad Creek. Both of the new imprints will publish books for general audiences, rather than scholarly volumes. Mad Creek books are literary trade titles that include memoirs, fiction, poetry, essays and graphic novels, but are not limited to the local region. Trillium specializes in books with a regional focus, publishing titles about Ohio and the Midwest to share the unique history, diverse culture and natural environment of the state.
Trillium is in the process of publishing Urur Dhex-Dhexaad Ah/Community in Between, featuring photo-narrative research by Ruth Smith (PhD, arts administration, education and policy) and Qorsho Hassan. The book includes interviews and photographs from the local Somali community who are leaders, mentors and connectors. The images were shot by Columbus high school Somali girls. Smith said they “wanted to encourage female artists, and we offered a photography scholarship.”
Documenting the Sounds of Religions The American Religious Sounds Project, a collaborative project of Ohio State and Michigan State University and supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, is documenting religious sounds in the U.S., and now has nearly 400 recorded clips of religious expression — ranging from a Spanish Catholic procession for Our Lady of Guadalupe in Columbus to an Asatru (German Norse) midsummer ritual in rural Ohio. Housed in Ohio State’s Center for the Study of Religion, the project will create a digital archive of religious sounds and an interactive website that will allow people to listen to clips from the collection.
Technology and the Arts A Humanities and the Arts Discovery Theme pilot project, Collaboration for Humane Technologies, held a series of collaborative workshops and its first pop-up event last spring. The event brought together artists, humanists and scientists, including faculty, international artists, current students and alumni to explore what it might be like to work, share, play and think in more dynamic technological mediums that access our full multi-sensory human capacities.
Team-Taught Course Explores Centuries-Old Art A group of Ohio State faculty members collaborated to team-teach a spring semester course focusing on a centuries-old art phenomenon from the northern Mediterranean. “Cartelami” are life-size, intricately painted religious scenes on cardboard dating back to the 17th century. The course grew from deep cross-disciplinary connections to the research developed with the University of Genoa in Italy. The team-taught class brought in visiting artists and guest lecturers from classics, comparative studies, folklore studies, theatre, English and architecture.
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Tasnim Hamza, a graduate student in speech and hearing science, served as the lead audiology coordinator for a humanitarian team providing hearing services to Syrian refugees who suffered hearing loss from the trauma of barrel bombs. Hamza, who is from Syria and still has family there, spent 10 days at multiple refugee camps in Lebanon fitting more than 300 children with hearing aids and helping others to learn sign language.
“I’ve always known that I wanted to go into a humanitarian profession that focused on improving the quality of life of people. One of my goals has been to use the skill set that my education here at Ohio State has given me to help people who have been displaced from their homes by war.” {Tasnim Hamza}
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STUDY ABROAD & FIELD WORK With more than 100 study abroad and field work programs on every continent, our students have unparalleled opportunities to explore, expand and customize their academic journeys.
Undergraduate Research Students engage in innovative research, supported by world-class scholars, researchers and scientists. Working alongside faculty commited to discovery, they develop the critical thinking and analytical skills necessary for graduate and professional school and successful careers.
Internships & Service Learning Located in a major metropolitan area, we have access to extensive internship and servicelearning opportunities in Columbus and surrounding communities.
Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology Field Work: Do you love #bees? #ASCinthefield studying #criticallyendangered OH species.
Beyond the Classroom Along their academic journeys, our students are creating, innovating, challenging themselves and extending their ASC experience beyond the classroom. Over the summer, we follow them on their journeys around the world with #ASCintheField.
Tanzania Study Abroad: On the Great Ruaha River: Buckeyes up front, elephants out back #ASCinthefield @dodecagon @OhioStateOSUGlobal
History of Art Study Abroad: Bonjour de Paris! Professor Karl Whittington with his students from The Art of Paris: Gothic Cathedrals. #ASCinthefield
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OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT Beating the Blues Psychology postdoctoral fellow Marlena Ryba developed an online intervention program — the first of its kind — to treat cancer patients struggling with depression, the most common psychiatric disorder among those with cancer. “Beating the Blues,” a unique cognitive behavioral therapy, guides participants through a series of lessons, when it’s convenient for them. Ryba was able to launch the program with the support of an Ohio State Pelotonia Postdoctoral Fellowship.
“For cancer patients who are already overwhelmed with appointments, it’s a practical solution to have treatment online that they can do at their own convenience.” {Marlena Ryba}
Shakespeare and Veterans The Department of Theatre engages its MFA Acting cohort in a unique outreach project during their three-year graduate program, which culminates in a theatre production based upon their experiences working with a community partner. Past projects have focused on cancer patients, domestic violence, using active theatre techniques to interact with children on the autism spectrum and more. This year, the MFA actors, led by Assistant Professor Kevin McClatchy, facilitated a series of active workshops centering on Shakespeare to help military veterans, active duty personnel, military family members and counselors process their experiences during the ongoing transition from soldier to civilian.
“Our goal was to build a safe and creative space where participants could find new ways of expressing themselves.” {Kevin McClatchy}
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Maria Miriti, associate professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology, is using the growing popularity of community gardens to engage young students from underserved communities in science. Applying principles of Participatory Action Research, students interact with science professionals and students from other communities to design and plan garden space. The community gardening movement is growing across the country. The gardens gained visibility because they helped alleviate urban food deserts and serve environmental justice issues. Miriti, a plant community ecologist, aims to collaborate with gardeners to recognize the biology and ecology of gardening. The project is being funded by a Battelle Engineering, Technology and Human Affairs (BETHA) grant.
“This is a powerful way to encourage ownership and provide a more ‘organic’ immersion in science. Along the way, we will explore human impacts on the environment and discover pathways to STEM careers.” {Maria Miriti}
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“We’ve had so many students and community members bring in donations, and slowly, students who need help are finding their way to us.” {Alec Admonius}
Giving Cancer Patients an Inside Look at TBDBITL The Ohio State Marching Band came together with Nellie’s Champions for Kids (NC4K) to give pediatric cancer patients and their families a memorable experience packed with fun activities, music and Buckeye pride. NC4K patients and families filled Ohio Stadium to get an inside look at what it’s like to be a member of the Ohio State Marching Band. The band invited the NC4K guests to the field to meet students in different sections before they joined the band students in marching a very special performance of Script Ohio.
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Studying Critical Languages Overseas No Buckeye Goes Hungry Alec Admonius, a fourth-year economics student, is president and co-founder of Buckeye Food Alliance, Ohio State’s first food pantry operated by students, dedicated to students in need. In a recent wellness assessment conducted by Ohio State, 15 percent of students reported having “low food security,” meaning they lacked reliable access to affordable, nutritious food from week to week. Opened in 2016 in Lincoln Tower, pantry volunteers keep the doors open on weeknights and the weekend to help students in need. A recent gift of a large refrigeration unit and freezer allows the pantry to offer students fresh produce, in addition to canned and packaged goods.
Six Arts and Sciences students received a 2017-2018 BOREN SCHOLARSHIP, an initiative of the National Security Education Program, to study less commonly taught languages in world regions critical to U.S. interests. Christian Gray, political science and French, will study Mandarin at National Taiwan University Caroline Carroll, international studies, will study Japanese at Hokkaido University Clayton Sharb, political science, will study Arabic at Hebrew University of Jerusalem Courtney Johnson, communication and history of art, will study Hindi at the American Institute of Indian Studies Turner Adornetto, engineering, will study Swahili in Tanzania Natalie Hettle, international studies and Arabic, will study Arabic at the Center for International Learning in Oman
“The Ohio State Marching Band students and staff have been nothing but kind to our organization and families. They share their love for music with the kids and create so many smiles and memories to last a lifetime. Our families tell us year round that they look forward to this event and we are never allowed to get rid of it.” {Nellie Corriveau, founder and executive director of NC4K}
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SPACES The College of Arts and Sciences is home to some of the most remarkable learning, scientific and performance spaces in the nation. Our classrooms, museums, laboratories, studios and stages support advanced research, expression, discovery and innovation.
Spotlight on: Communication The School of Communication is home to one of the most advanced communication research facilities in the country. A gaming research and audience response lab; a 120-seat, multi-media classroom with distance-learning capabilities; state-of-the-art psychophysiology lab; podcasting studio, focus group and survey rooms; and a teaching and research theater. 1
Communication and Psychophysiology Lab A graduate student researcher from the Communication and Psychophysiology Lab (CAPLab) adjusts an electroencephalography (EEG) cap used to collect electrical brain wave activity. EEG and other psychophysiological measures are non-invasive methods used to study responses to media and evaluating the effect of media on emotions, attention, motivation and decision-making. Researchers in the CAPLab use psychophysiological measures, such as heart rate variability, skin conductance, eye tracking and electroencephalography, and longitudinal life experience data to study how people process media information, and how such processing affects their behavior.
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Computer Mediated Communication and Human-Computer Interaction Research Space This space includes intake and control rooms, and seat stations with video and audio recording capabilities to study how subjects interact with computerbased stimuli. Research includes social media, aggression and violence, political communication, health communication, behavior and persuasion processes in areas such as substance abuse, cancer prevention and the impacts of media on children.
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The Lantern The Lantern Media Group, a comprehensive multimedia news organization, includes the Buckeye TV Broadcast Studio, the Lantern Multimedia Production Studio and The Lantern Newsroom. The Lantern, one of the best collegiate, student-run newspapers in the country, regularly wins awards for the paper itself and for its student journalists.
World Media and Culture Center and Crane CafĂŠ Located in Hagerty Hall, the World Media and Culture Center has a series of spaces dedicated to global media and training in advanced technologies. Facilities include an individualized instruction center, hypermedia studio, global gallery, videoconference center and digital collaborative classroom. Students, faculty and visitors can try out their languages skills in the Crane CafĂŠ, where satellite broadcasts of live programs in more than 14 languages are televised.
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Through courses in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, students have the opportunity to study the Tetrapods Collection firsthand. Tetrapods are vertebrate animals that have four limbs, including amphibians (frogs and toads), reptiles (lizards, snakes, turtles), birds and mammals. In the lab, students will find thousands of specimens housed on shelves and in jars for their research.
Museum of Biological Diversity The Museum of Biological Diversity (MBD) brings together seven renowned biological collections containing millions of unique and irreplaceable specimens: the Acarology Lab; Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics; C.A. Triplehorn Insect Collection; Fishes; Moluscs; Tetrapods; and the Herbarium (created by Ohio State’s first botany professor). MBD is a vital resource for researchers world-wide as well as on campus. Both undergraduate and graduate students conduct research at the museum and projects are underway to make all collection data widely available online.
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While MBD is normally used for research purposes, the annual open house is a very popular event that invites the public to explore the treasures, showing them that the museum is “not just about dead things in jars.” The museum’s primary mission is devoted to the preservation, documentation, scientific study, and interpretation of biological diversity and the training of the next generation of biodiversity scientists.
Costume Studio The Department of Theatre’s Costume Studio produces and maintains approximately 200 costumes for department productions each year. The studio is equipped with everything needed to design, sew and dye costumes from antiquity to the present.
Arne Slettebak Planetarium The Arne Slettebak Planetarium, located in Smith Laboratory, serves the university and central Ohio with educational programs in astronomy and more. Operated since 1967 by the Department of Astronomy, it underwent a yearlong total renovation and transformation, reopened in October 2013 and received its official name in 2015. The new Arne Slettebak Planetarium is a beautiful, comfortable 63-seat, 30-foot dometheater. A Spitz SciDome XD digital projection system gives stunning views of the night sky and takes stargazers on digital journeys to planets, stars and distant galaxies.
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CAMPUS FOOTPRINT With 38 departments and 20+ world-class research centers, the College of Arts and Sciences is the academic heart of the university. The college has 1.5+ million assignable square feet in 56 buildings across campus. Learn more at asc.osu.edu/departments-centers
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Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) [B121 Sullivant] African American and African Studies Community Extension Center [B201 King Lincoln, 905 Mt Vernon Ave.] African American and African Studies [B112 Univ Hall] African Studies, Center [A104 Enarson Hall] Anthropology [B120 Smith] Applied Plant Sciences, Center (CAPS) [B201 Rightmire] Art [B110 Hopkins] Arts Administration, Education and Policy [B107 Sullivant] Arts Initiative at Ohio State [B200 Urban Arts Space] Astronomy [B121 McPherson] Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise [B107 Sullivant] Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center [A200 Scott] Chemistry and Biochemistry [B122 Newman-Wolfram; B124 CBEC] Classics [B112 Univ Hall] Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging [B103 Psych Bldg] Cognitive and Brain Sciences [B103 Psych Bldg] Communication, School [B111 Derby & B119 Journalism Bldg] Comparative Studies, Department [B106 Hagerty] Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, Center (CCAPP) [B123 Physics Bldg] Criminal Justice Research Center [B113 Townsend] Dance, Department [B107 Sullivant] Design, Department [B109 Hayes] Diversity & Identity Studies Collective at OSU [B106 Hagerty] Earth Sciences, School [B105 Mendenhall] East Asian Languages and Literatures [B106 Hagerty] East Asian Studies Center [A104 Enarson Hall] Economics, Department [B116 Arps] Emergent Materials, Center [B123 Physics Bldg] English, Department [B116 Denney] Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies [A203 Pressey] Ethics and Human Values, Center [B112 Univ Hall] Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology [A104 Aronoff] Exploration of Novel Complex Materials, Center [B123 Physics Bldg] Folklore Studies, Center [A101 Stadium] French and Italian, Department [B106 Hagerty] Geography, Department [B111 Derby] Germanic Languages and Literatures [B106 Hagerty]
Goldberg Center [B115 Dulles] Historical Research, Center [B115 Dulles] History of Art, Department [B120 Smith] History, Department [B115 Dulles] Human Resource Research Center [A203] Humanities Institute [B106 Hagerty] Institute for Population Research (IPR) [B113 Townsend] Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Center [B106 Hagerty] Latin American Studies, Center [A104 Enarson Hall] Life Sciences Education, Center [B100 Jennings] Linguistics, Department [A101 Stadium] Mathematical Biosciences Institute [B100 Jennings] Mathematics and Statistics Learning Center [B114 Cockins] Mathematics, Department [B118 Math Tower] Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Center [B106 Hagerty] Melton Center for Jewish Studies [B115 Dulles] Mershon Center for International Security Studies [1501 Neil Ave., not pictured] Microbiology, Department [A102 Bio Sci Bldg] Middle East Studies Center [A104 Enarson Hall] Molecular Genetics, Department [A102 Bio Sci Bldg] Music, School [B108 Weigel & Hughes] Near Eastern Languages and Cultures [B106 Hagerty] Philosophy, Department [B112 Univ Hall] Physics, Department [B123 Physics Bldg] Political Science, Department [B111 Derby] Psychology, Department [B103 Psychology Bldg & Lazenby] Religion, Center for the Study of [B106 Hagerty] Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies [★Thompson Library] Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures [B106 Hagerty] Sociology, Department [B113 Townsend] Spanish and Portuguese, Department [B106 Hagerty] Spectroscopy Institute [B121 Celeste Lab] Speech and Hearing Science, Department [A203 Pressey] Statistical Consulting Service [B114 Cockins] Statistics, Department of [B114 Cockins] Study and Teaching of Writing, Center [B120 Smith] Theatre, Department [A100 Drake] Translational Data Analytics Institute [B102 Pomerene] Urban and Regional Analysis, Center [B111 Derby] Urban Arts Space [B200 Downtown, 50 W. Town St.] Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department [B112 Univ Hall]
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