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CURA’s community-engaged research
At a public event at the Union Grove Baptist Church on the Near East Side neighborhood of Columbus, the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA) teamed up with the Sharpe Field Library to…
Phi Beta Kappa ‘Key Conversations’ podcast with Kendra McSweeney
Dr. Kendra McSweeney is spending the year traveling to schools across the country to share her research and to spread the good word about geography through the Phi Beta Kappa program. Phi Beta…
Jana Houser featured on NBC4i!
Ben Gelber, an Emmy Award winning meteorologist at NBC4i (WCMH) in Columbus, has a new story and short video on tornados, featuring Dr. Jana Houser. Ben interviewed Jana after her recent packed-…
Zhengyu Liu—EGU award recipient!
Dr. Zhengyu Liu has been named the 2025 recipient of the Milutin Milanković Medal! Awarded by the European Geosciences Union (EGU), this prestigious honor recognizes outstanding contributions to…
Jana Houser featured in a standing-room-only Science Sundays
Our resident storm chaser and Hollywood consultant on tornados, Professor Jana Houser, talked this past Sunday about the current state of all things tornado-related to a packed house at Ohio State…
Meet our award-winning students!
Ohio State Geography was well-represented at the joint East Lakes-West Lakes AAG Meeting at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI. We had the 3rd highest number of registrations at the…
Geography Awareness Week is now official!
Dr. Tammy Parece (https://geography.osu.edu/people/parece.1) secured a governor’s proclamation from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine recognizing National Geography Week as November 18-24, 2024! The…
Joseph Chan wins $700,000 Young Investigator Grant
Assistant professor, Dr. Joseph Chan has been awarded a prestigious Young Investigator Grant from the Office of Naval Research for research on high-resolution numerical aerosol prediction and high…
Geography students take to the skies with the SFL Drone School
Monday Oct. 28, students from the Department of Geography participated in the first Sharpe Field Library (SFL) Drone School flight day. During this session at Tuttle Park, SFL manager Adam…