150 Years of Ohio State: Research and Creative Expression Innovators
The Ohio State University is celebrating its first 150 years of excellence in education, research, innovation and community engagement by reflecting on its remarkable past and preparing for its bold future. Research and creative expression innovators have made their mark over the last 150 years by taking on the world’s issues as their direct challenges. Through this site, we will recognize many of those Ohio State innovators, and reflect on the university’s ongoing commitment to the discovery and application of knowledge. Check back often as new innovators are added each week.
Ann Hamilton, Art
Ann Hamilton, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Art at Ohio State, is a contemporary artist internationally known for her large-scale multimedia installations, public projects, and performance collaborations. For on...
Clark Spencer Larsen, Anthropology
Clark Larsen, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Ohio State, is a biological anthropologist whose research focuses on the history of the human condition viewed from the perspective of health, quality ...
Krzysztof Stanek, Astronomy
Krzysztof Stanek, Distinguished Scholar and professor with the Department of Astronomy at Ohio State, is known for his research on the explosive deaths of massive stars. He and collaborators have shown conclusively that gamma-ray burst...
William Berry Lyons, Earth Sciences
Berry Lyons, distinguished professor with the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State, is an internationally renowned researcher and scholar in environmental geochemistry. His research focuses on how climate change influences global envir...
Junko Shigemitsu, Physics
Junko Shigemitsu, professor emerita in the Department of Physics at Ohio State, is a leader in lattice gauge theory or lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD), a method for calculating the properties of subatomic particles from first princi...
Embury Ashbury Hitchcock, Engineering
Embury Hitchcock (1866-1948) started as professor of mechanical engineering in 1893 and served as dean of the College of Engineering from 1920 to 1936. He was considered an expert in natural gas and was often called upon to settle gas di...
Buckeye Bullet
The Buckeye Bullet team was launched in 2000 to provide unique, hands-on engineering challenges for Ohio State students and push electric vehicle technology. Located at the Center for Automotive Research, these custom-built, student-desi...
Anita K. Hopper, Molecular Genetics
Anita Hopper, professor for the Department of Molecular Genetics at Ohio State, studies the biogenesis of tRNA molecules, and her research has led to fundamental insights into how tRNAs are built and become functional. She was the first ...
Andre Palmer, Engineering
Andre Palmer, professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is a world renowned blood substitute researcher. Through his research he is developing safer, more commercially viable red blood cell substitutes that can provide patients...
Rudine Sims Bishop, Education
Rudine Sims Bishop, professor emerita of education at The Ohio State University, has been called the “mother of multicultural literature”. She has been nationally recognized for her scholarship and teaching concerning multiculturalis...
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