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  • Ohio State updates autumn semester reactivation plans

    July 28, 2021
    President Kristina M. Johnson sent the following email to The Ohio State University community Tuesday, July 27, 2021. In about a month, we’ll be together for the start of the academic year, and I’m thrilled just thinking about the Buckeye traditions that we all love. This robust, in-person experience can happen because of the success of free, effective COVID-19 vaccines. Already, more than 70% of...

  • Eminence Fellows Program Application Open

    July 27, 2021
    ​The University Honors & Scholars Center at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce that the Eminence Fellows Program and Scholarship application for 2022 is now open. The deadline to apply is November 15, 2021. The Eminence Fellows Program supports students with a full cost-of-attendance scholarship and is awarded to approximately 25 incoming, first year students with demonstrated...

  • Ohio State, University District Organization partner to add full-time social worker to off-campus area

    July 14, 2021
    The Ohio State University is working with community partners to bring on a full-time social worker dedicated to helping housing-vulnerable people in the off-campus area. The hiring is one of several university initiatives designed to support the neighborhoods and residents surrounding Ohio State’s campus. Beginning this summer, a social worker from Southeast Healthcare will work in the off-campus...

  • For female vampire bats, an equal chance to rule the roost

    July 7, 2021
    Female vampire bats establish an egalitarian community within a roost rather than a society based on a clear hierarchy of dominance that is often seen in animal groups, a new study suggests. Researchers observed more than 1,000 competitions for food among a colony of 33 adult female bats and juveniles living in captivity, assigning a rank to each bat based on a calculation of wins and losses in...

  • Most US adults fall short of cancer-prevention dietary guidelines

    June 30, 2021
    The vast majority of American adults eat a dietary pattern that falls short of meeting national dietary guidelines for cancer prevention, a new study shows. When researchers analyzed the dietary intake of more than 30,000 American adults according to body mass index (BMI), the results also showed that people with BMIs in the obese range were the least likely to adhere to the dietary...

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