Arts and Sciences at Ohio State

06/02/2026

More than 100 undergraduate students have worked as interns at Urban Arts Space and “externs” with area arts organizations since 2023 through a community engagement initiative supported by a $2M Mellon Foundation grant. In addition to supporting the local arts community, program participants gain valuable exposure to the professional art world, said Terron Banner, director of Urban Arts Space.

More than 100 undergraduate students at The Ohio State University have worked as “externs” with area arts organizations since 2023, when the university received $2 million from the Mellon Foundation to support student experiential learning and community engagement through the arts.The Community ...

06/01/2026

How many lawyers does it take to feed a t-rex? Were velociraptors intelligent enough to hunt in packs? Could a pterosaur really carry off a human? Dinosaur enthusiast and Orton Geological Museum curator Dale Gnidovec joined us for our second episode of That's Not How That Works to give us his dino-mite insight on the Jurassic Park franchise.

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The Ohio State University School of Earth Sciences
Orton Geological Museum
The Ohio State University

06/01/2026

Could a t-rex chase a jeep? Could it crunch through a car? How many lawyers does it take to feed a t-rex? All of these answers will be revealed in this episode of That's Not How That Works.

Full video: https://youtu.be/Yj6D0H10zGg

06/01/2026

Three truths and a lie...which one is it???
- Pterosaurs couldn't carry a full-size human
- Velociraptors were feathered
- If you don't move, a t-rex won't see you
- Dinosaurs can't play the piano

Full video: https://youtu.be/Yj6D0H10zGg

06/01/2026

Were velociraptors intelligent enought to hunt in packs? Did brachiosaurs really chew like cows? Dale answers these questions and gives us a breakdown of what the featured dinos probably looked like in real life.

Full video: https://youtu.be/Yj6D0H10zGg

06/01/2026

Dale explains why the original Jurassic Park island would not be able to accomodate the "main characters" and discusses the importance of amber (and what they got wrong). He also has an axe to grind about the representation of fossil excavation.

Full video: https://youtu.be/Yj6D0H10zGg

06/01/2026

Dinosaur enthusiast and Orton Geological Museum curator Dale Gnidovec joined us for our second episode of That's Not How That Works to give us his dino-mite insight on the Jurassic Park franchise.

Full video: https://youtu.be/Yj6D0H10zGg

05/31/2026

ICYMI: Professors Marilynn Brewer and Christopher Kochanek have been selected as part of the 2026 class of the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It recognizes achievement in science by election to membership and provides science, engineering and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.

The Ohio State University Department of Astronomy

Marilynn Brewer, professor emerita and Ohio Eminent Scholar in the Department of Psychology, and Christopher Kochanek, professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar in the Department of Astronomy, have been selected as part of the 2026 class of the National Academy of Sciences.

05/30/2026

Angeletha Rogers, administrative assistant and graduate specialist in the School of Earth Sciences, is a recipient of the university’s 2026 Distinguished Staff Awards, the highest recognition for staff that honors their outstanding contributions driven by passion and purpose. Rogers ensures “that every Buckeye who enters her office finds not just an administrator, but a lifelong mentor and a tireless champion.”

Congrats, Angeletha!

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The Ohio State University School of Earth Sciences

05/29/2026

Glaciers can reveal vast archives of information about Earth’s environmental past, but deciphering the origins of the matter within them can be a challenge. Now, using a novel technique that enables researchers to directly analyze millions of individual particles at once, a new study led by researcher Stanislav Kutuzov has revealed that specks of dust trapped in Antarctic ice likely originated from a common source during the last Ice Age, between about 120,000 and 11,500 years ago.

The Ohio State University School of Earth Sciences

Glaciers can reveal vast archives of information about Earth’s environmental past, but deciphering the origins of the matter within them can be a challenge.  Now, using a novel technique that enables researchers to directly analyze millions of individual particles at once, a new study has revea...