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Welcome to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at �鶹ӰԺ. We invite you to browse these pages that describe our instructional and research community. Here you will find award-winning teachers, internationally recognized scholars, excellent research facilities, and active researchers creating new materials and new knowledge. Read about our course and degree offerings, and explore our photo and video galleries.

The Department of Physics at �鶹ӰԺ focuses on providing students with a quality education in the field of physics. Our undergraduate offerings include courses and studies for physics majors and minors and interdisciplinary options are also available.

Will you be a new Freshman Physics major at �鶹ӰԺ State this Fall? Consider applying for a Choose Ohio First Scholarship from the Workforce Training for Ohio’s STEMM Industries program. Scholarship awards of $4500 annually will be available pending final approval of our program. Choose Ohio First Scholars must maintain a 3.0 GPA, remain registered for one of the selected major concentrations, and participate in monthly activities.

Applications can be submitted online through the Choose Ohio First portal: /chooseohio1st/workforce-training.

The Department of English at �鶹ӰԺ offers a wide variety of programs leading to B.A., M.A., M.F.A., and Ph.D. degrees.

Sociologists study the workings of social phenomena – social unrest, sexuality, culture, inequality, social organization, healthcare, criminology and related phenomena – by focusing on the social origins of the self, groups and institutions. Our faculty members are active researchers on questions regarding race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, crime, deviance, global security, inequality, healthcare and mental health, labor and work, identity, and the institutions of family and religion.

The mission of the Department of Psychological Sciences is to foster the success of our undergraduate and graduate students, build a department nationally and internationally recognized for its research excellence, and contribute to our local community and society at large. At the center of our mission is a commitment to fostering an inclusive environment in which we celebrate our diversity and come together as one community.

The Center for Applied Conflict Management transformed into the School of Peace and Conflict Studies effective August 2017. The Center for Applied Conflict Management (originally called the Center for Peaceful Change) was established in 1971 as a “living memorial” to the students killed by the Ohio National Guard during a student protest against the Vietnam War on May 4, 1970. The Center was created to study and to promote peaceful mechanisms of change. Today the School of Peace and Conflict Studies regularly enrolls over 1,000 students each year in courses that teach applied skills in conflict management and nonviolent change.

Political Science is for, as we say, people who care to matter. That’s because our classes and our faculty study power, which affects everyone’s life, whether in the family, the workplace, business, or government. If you want to change something at �鶹ӰԺ State, in your community, or in the world, you need to understand how power is distributed and wielded—that’s what we do here. Whether your interests lie in the fight for democratic freedoms, human rights, the global environment, racial equality, social welfare, or some other vital cause, we will help you study it and engage it.

Welcome to the Department of Geography! The Department of Geography at �鶹ӰԺ offers BA, MS, and PhD degrees in Geography, an interdisciplinary BA in Environmental Studies, along with a fully online Master of GIS. The department’s mission is to provide an inspirational environment for the pursuit of geographic knowledge. Our faculty research seeks to promote positive social and environmental change, with a focus on interdisciplinary applications and collaboration. We work at the intersection of global and local: while our research sites span five continents, we also work locally to apply our geographic knowledge to problem-solving at the community level.

Welcome to the Sole Center. A major mission of the SOLE initiative is to foster evidence-based reform of STEM education, health education, and literacy and language learning, to improve achievement and retention for �鶹ӰԺ State students and for K-12 students in the surrounding community.