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.
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 cance
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
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.
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
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.