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The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio , it was founded in 1870. It is one of the largest universities by enrollment in the United States, with nearly 50,000 undergraduate students and nearly 15,000 graduate students.
Four buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Hale Hall (originally Enarson Hall), Hayes Hall, Ohio Stadium and Orton Hall.Unlike earlier public universities such as Ohio University and Miami University, whose campuses have a consistent architectural style, the Ohio State campus is a mix of traditional, modern and postmodern styles.
In most years before 1968, Ohio State’s arts and sciences programs were organized within a College of Arts and Sciences. In 1968, the college divided into five colleges: the College of Arts, College of Biological Sciences, College of Humanities, College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Robert Buzzanco, professor and chair of the History Department at the University of Houston (Ph.D.) Phyllis Worthy Dawkins, 18th president of Bennett College (Ph.D. 1984) Tamal Dey, former professor and chair of the department of computer science and engineering at the Ohio State University
The Ohio State University College of Engineering, including the Knowlton School is the academic unit that manages engineering research and education at Ohio State University. The college can trace its origins to 1870 when the Ohio General Assembly chartered the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Ohio State began accepting graduate students in the 1880s, with the university awarding its first master's and doctoral degrees in 1886 and 1890 respectively. 1891 saw the founding of Ohio State's law school, the Moritz College of Law. It would later acquire colleges of medicine, dentistry, optometry, veterinary medicine, commerce, and ...
The number of collections in the Ohio State University libraries increased rapidly and caused storage issues. The Ohio State University libraries tried the designed facility to operate high-density off-site book storage and used the new technology of sophisticated climate control systems to extend the life of stored collections. [2]
Prior Hall, originally known as the Health Sciences Library, is the home of the medical library at Ohio State University. The library was named the John A. Prior Health Sciences Library in 1988 and later renamed to Health Sciences Library in Prior Hall. [1]