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Wed, February 11, 2026
Cultures of the Future: Developing and Documenting Positive Imagined Futures with Central Ohio Youth
Event Start Time: 3:30 pm
Event Location: 4012 Smith Laboratory
Event Location: 4012 Smith Laboratory
Thu, February 26, 2026
Event Start Time: 6:00 pm
Event Location: Smith Lab 1005
Event Location: Smith Lab 1005
Recent News
Nina Wilson awarded The Beatrice Medicine Travel Award Scholarship
Anthropology graduate student, Nina Wilson, has been awarded the 2026 Beatrice Medicine Travel Award Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship honors the life and legacy of Dr. Beatrice Medicine, an…
College of Arts and Sciences launches first-of-its-kind Forensic Anthropology Lab
The Department of Anthropology in Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences has officially opened the doors of the new Forensic Anthropology Laboratory — a milestone that furthers the hands-on…
Nora Warnick Awarded an Undergraduate Research Scholarship!
We are thrilled to announce that Nora Warnick has received a substantial Undergraduate Research Scholarship! Nora’s project is a craniodental comparison of the size of two different subspecies…
Announcing a new Continuing Education course: Fragmentary Human Osteology
The goal of this short course is to familiarize students and professionals with the identification of fragmentary human skeletal remains. Emphasis will be placed on identifying and siding both whole…
