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.
Janet Rice and Richard Lanese
Janet Rice and Richard Lanese (1928-2012), then faculty at the Ohio State School of Preventive Medicine, were part of a team that in 1982 published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealing the connection betwe...
Gary D. Stoner
Gary Stoner, former Ohio State professor and chair of the Division of Environmental Health Sciences in the College of Public Health and Associate Director of Basic Research in the Comprehensive Cancer Center, is a pioneer of cancer-preve...
Ruth Ella Moore
Ruth Ella Moore (1903-1994) was the first African-American woman in the United States to earn a PhD in the natural sciences – delivering her doctoral dissertation at Ohio State on the bacteriology of tuberculosis. Though Ohio State did...
Mary Ellen Wewers
As a tireless advocate for smoking cessation, Mary Ellen Wewers’ work has greatly expanded our understanding of tobacco addiction, particularly among underserved communities that are disproportionately affected by tobacco-related disea...
Linda Saif, Animal Health and Veterinary Medicine
Linda Saif, professor with both Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences and the College of Veterinary Medicine, has become a trailblazer in the research of viruses, particularly enteric and respiratory vi...
Roy Lichtenstein, Art
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), an alumni and former teacher of studio art classes at Ohio State, was a pioneer in the pop art movement of the 1960s. Lichtenstein’s influential career as an artist began with his early work imitating comic ...
Robert Fenton, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robert Fenton, Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Emeritus, pioneered the technology for the first wave of self-driving cars. Starting in the 1960s, Fenton’s research work focused on ways to improve driver performance and ...
Kenneth G. Wilson, Physics
Kenneth Wilson (1936-2013), was a professor in Ohio State’s Department of Physics who brought a multi-disciplinary approach to his innovate research ranging from abstract mathematics to supercomputing. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel P...
Sonia A. Duffy, Nursing
Sonia Duffy is a professor and Mildred E. Newton Endowed Chair at the College of Nursing. She also is a research scientist at the Department of Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Duffy was educated in health behavior and epide...
Bunny Clark, Physics
Bunny Clark joined The Ohio State University in 1981 as a faculty member for the university’s physics department, eventually becoming a professor in 1986. Throughout her time at Ohio State, she was a tireless advocate for women in phys...
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