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Living within miles of the ocean breeze may be linked to a longer life, but you shouldn’t count on the same benefits if you live in a riverside city, a recent @OhioState study suggests. @OSUPublicHealth news.osu.edu/could-living-n…

Assistant @osudance Professor Irvin Gonzalez uses dance as a way to connect people, build community and tell stories. This past spring, he shared these passions with a new group of students through @OhioState’s Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project. news.osu.edu/ohio-state-bri…

In a first-of-its-kind study, @OhioState researchers used a unique dataset to show that patients with type 2 diabetes have significantly worse financial outcomes than other patients. news.osu.edu/a-financial-to…

An estimated 12% of 1st graders’ most-used media at home is educational, a new @OhioState study finds, also showing that higher use of educational apps and videos was associated with more time spent reading and less overall time in front of a screen. news.osu.edu/first-graders-…

A financial planning academy hosted by @OhioState paired central Ohio high schoolers with Columbus-based professionals in an effort to promote financial literacy and encourage young people to consider careers in financial planning. @OSUehe news.osu.edu/ohio-state-aca…

A new @OhioState study has found that counties with socially vulnerable populations were often susceptible to longer-term power outages linked to extreme weather near the U.S. Gulf Coast. news.osu.edu/new-study-link…

.@OhioState chemists report in @ScienceMagazine on their development of a novel way to generate a variety of highly useful chemical building blocks by harnessing metal carbenes, short-lived, highly reactive carbon atoms. news.osu.edu/new-chemical-t…

In utero exposure to two liquid ingredients in e-cigarettes – minus the nicotine that drives addiction – can alter skull shape during fetal development, a new @OhioState study in mice has found. @OhioStateMed news.osu.edu/fetal-exposure…

.@OhioState has named Rob Lowden, a nationally recognized leader in higher education IT and tech partnerships, as its new VP and chief information officer. He will join the university Aug. 1. @OhioStateIT @OhioStateAP news.osu.edu/lowden-named-o…

Memes, with their interplay of visual and verbal elements, are an important new type of digital comic, @OhioState comics scholar Michelle Ann Abate argues in a new journal article. @OSUehe news.osu.edu/most-of-us-lov…

With tuition, housing + dining costs locked for each of an Ohio student’s 4 years on campus, the effective annual @OhioState undergraduate tuition increase announced today is less than 1%. Affordability remains a priority through $525M in financial aid. news.osu.edu/ohio-state-set…

An @OhioState student project has been named Best Prototype in the annual @NASA Human Lander Challenge. The team developed a novel cryogenic refueling system for use in long-term space exploration beyond Earth’s orbit. @OSUEngineering news.osu.edu/ohio-state-tak…

The Cognitive Health in Late Life Lab at @OhioState is encouraging Ohioans to adopt lifestyle changes to improve their brain health and, through a new study, aims to provide an overview of the state of brain health in central Ohio. @ASCatOSU news.osu.edu/ohio-state-ini…

Learn about Superman’s Ohio connections from comics expert Matt Smith, dean of @OhioStateNewark, and Jenny Robb, head curator at @OhioState’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, home to rare Man of Steel materials. news.osu.edu/up-up-and-away…

A new @OhioState study values the food wasted by U.S. vacation renters at about $2 billion each year, with uneaten groceries, takeout and restaurant leftovers averaging $12 in value per night of short-term lodging. @CFAES_OSU news.osu.edu/us-vacation-re…

Most popular coming-of-age movies don’t reflect the true challenges of adolescence, new @OhioState research suggests. news.osu.edu/popular-teen-m…

A new @OhioState study suggests long-tailed macaques share some of our interests – in this case, the monkeys seem to like videos featuring aggression and individuals they know. news.osu.edu/like-humans-mo…

Almost 1 in 10 workers in their 30s uses alcohol, marijuana or other drugs while on the job in the US, a new @OhioState study has found. The risk for substance use among employees was highest in food prep/service and safety-sensitive industries. news.osu.edu/9-of-young-us-…

Umit Ozkan, a Distinguished University Professor, @OSUEngineering Distinguished Professor and chair of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at @OhioState, will address graduates at the Aug. 3 summer commencement ceremony. bit.ly/44kz71j

100 K-12 teachers from central Ohio spent a few days last month at @OhioState for the STEAMM Rising Summer Institute, an immersive learning experience that will transfer to their classrooms this fall. news.osu.edu/ohio-state-ste…