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.
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
Ruth Peterson, professor emerita of Sociology and former Director of the Criminal Justice Research Center at Ohio State, is a national authority on race, ethnicity, crime, and justice.
Karen Bell is professor emerita for the Department of Dance, formerly served as its chair and the dean for the College of the Arts. She also served as the university’s first Associate Vice President for Arts Outreach an
John Prior (1913-1992) was professor emeritus and former associate dean for Ohio State’s College of Medicine. He also received both his BA and MD from Ohio State.