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.
Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, Psychoneuroimmunology and Ron Glaser, Virology
Janice Kiecolt-Glaser is a Distinguished University Professor and the S. Robert Davis Chair of Medicine at Ohio State. She is also director of the Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research. Ron Glaser (1939-2019) was the founder and for...
Dwight M. DeLong, Entomology
Dwight DeLong (1892-1984) was a time two Ohio State alumnus and professor of entomology. Along with Ohio State professors Donald Borror and Charles Triplehorn, he co-authored An Introduction to the Study of Insects, a must have reference...
Rattan Lal, Soil Science
Rattan Lal is professor of soil science and founder and director of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center at The Ohio State University. His work focuses on the potential of soils to help solve critical global challenges, includi...
Herbert Osborn, Entomology
Herbert Osborn (1856-1954) was professor of entomology at Ohio State and served as chairman of the Department of Zoology and Entomology from 1898-1916. In 1916, he was named by then-President Thompson as the university’s first research...
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., Physical Chemistry
Maj. Robert Lawrence Jr. (1935-1967) received his PhD from Ohio State in 1965 in physical chemistry while serving in the U.S. Air Force. Following his completion of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School in 1967, the Air Force immediately ...
Frederick Luis Aldama, Latin Studies
Frederick Aldama is a University Distinguished Professor, Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor of English, University Distinguished Scholar and Alumni Distinguished Teacher at Ohio State. His areas of expertise include Latino litera...
Charles Clark Stillman, Social Work
Charles Stillman (1877 -1952) was professor emeritus and director emeritus for the School of Social Administration at Ohio State. In 1930, he developed the first curriculum in the United States for community organization. Because of th...
Robert Kouyoumjian, Engineering
Robert Kouyoumjian (1923-2011) was professor of electrical engineering at Ohio State for over 40 years after serving in World War II as a captain in the Air Force where he received training in meteorology. His main research was conducted...
Albert Prebus, Engineering
Albert Prebus (1913-1997) was professor of electrical engineering at Ohio State. In 1938 while a graduate student at the University of Toronto, Prebus along with fellow graduate student James Hillier, constructed the first electron micro...
Harry Roger Drackett, Chemical Engineering
Harry Drackett (1885-1948) graduated from The Ohio State University in 1907 with a bachelor of science in chemical engineering He eventually went to work for the company his parents founded, P.W. Drackett & Sons, which developed industri...
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