The Ohio State University 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. The university consists of sixteen colleges and offers over 400 degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Leslie Herbert Wexner is an American billionaire businessman,the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Bath &Body Works,Inc..
Nancy Lusk Zimpher is an American educator,state university leader,and former Chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY). Prior to her service at SUNY,Zimpher was a dean and professor of education at Ohio State University;then Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee between 1998 and 2003;and President of the University of Cincinnati from 2003 through May 2009. Zimpher was the first woman to serve as Chancellor of SUNY,UWM's first woman chancellor,and UC's first female president. Zimpher is a native of the village of Gallipolis in southern Ohio.
SUNY Online is an online program of the State University of New York.
Michael Vincent Drake is an American university administrator and physician who is the 21st president of the University of California. Earlier,from 2014 to June 2020,he was the 15th president of Ohio State University. He was the chancellor of the University of California,Irvine from 2005 to 2014,and has also served as vice president for health affairs for the University of California system. He is the first African American to head The Ohio State University and the University of California.
Bahgat G. Sammakia is an educator and academic administrator who currently serves as Vice President for Research at Binghamton University. He was previously the Interim President of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute. He is also a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Small Scale Systems Packaging Center at Binghamton University in Binghamton,New York. Sammakia has published over 200 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings,holds 21 U.S. patents and 12 IBM technical disclosures. He has also contributed to three books.
Ayanna MacCalla Howard is an American roboticist,entrepreneur and educator currently serving as the dean of the College of Engineering at Ohio State University. Assuming the post in March 2021,Howard became the first woman to lead the Ohio State College of Engineering.
Sir Christopher Maxwell Snowden,is a British electronic engineer and academic. He was the former Vice-Chancellor of Surrey University (2005–2015),and of the University of Southampton (2015–2019). He was president of Universities UK for a two-year term until 31 July 2015. He is currently the chairman of the ERA Foundation.
The Ohio State University was founded in 1870 as a land-grant university in accordance with the Morrill Act of 1862 under the name of Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College. The school was originally situated within a farming community located on the northern edge of Columbus,and was intended to matriculate students of various agricultural and mechanical disciplines. The university opened its doors to 24 students on September 17,1873. In 1878,the first class of six men graduated. The first woman graduated the following year. In 1900,in light of its expanded focus,the college permanently changed its name to the now-familiar "The Ohio State University". 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.
Ilesanmi Adesida is a Nigerian American physicist of Yoruba descent. He has been the provost at Nazarbayev University in Astana,Kazakhstan,from September 2016.
Carole J. Olshavsky,FAIA,an American architect. She is the former state architect of Ohio and a recipient of the American Institute of Architects' (AIA) 2014 Thomas Jefferson Award for her contributions to public architecture. She is the only woman to serve as state architect for Ohio,and the first woman to be awarded the American Institute of Architects' Ohio Gold Medal,the highest honor awarded by AIA Ohio.
Aylin Yener holds the Roy and Lois Chope Chair in engineering at Ohio State University,and Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. She also serves as the IEEE Division IX Director,which includes 7 IEEE societies:Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society,Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society,Information Theory Society,Intelligent Transportation Systems Society,Oceanic Engineering Society,Signal Processing Society,Vehicular Technology Society. She is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Integrated Systems Engineering,and Computer Science and Engineering,as well as an Affiliated Faculty member at the Sustainability Institute and the Translational Data Analytics Institute,all at Ohio State University.
Dr. Harold L. Paz is the former executive vice president of health sciences at Stony Brook University and former chief executive officer of Stony Brook University Medicine. He is the former executive vice president and chancellor for health affairs at Ohio State University and chief executive officer of the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center. Prior to that,he served as executive vice president and chief medical officer at CVS Health/Aetna.
Mona Jarrahi is an Iranian Engineering professor at the University of California,Los Angeles. She investigates novel materials,terahertz/millimeter-wave electronics and optoelectronics,microwave photonics,imaging and spectroscopy systems.
Betty Lise Anderson is an American electrical engineer,working in the field of photonics. She has been a professor at the Ohio State University since 1990. She is a Fellow of SPIE,and a Senior Member of the Optical Society of America and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Jinliu "Grace" Wang is a Chinese-American engineer and academic administrator who serves as the 17th president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Wang also served as interim president of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute from July 1,2018 to November 2020.
James J. Malatras is an American government official and university administrator who was the Chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY) system from August 2020 until his resignation in January 2022.
Mitra Dutta is an Indian-American physicist and electronics engineer known for her research on optoelectronics. She is a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago,and the university's former vice chancellor for research.
