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Holiday Inn Columbus
The Holiday Inn on the Lane is located directly across the street from The Ohio State University and just 3 miles north of beautiful downtown Columbus. We are less than a 5 minute walk to the Schottenstein Center and Ohio Stadium and less than a 10 minute drive to...more

The Blackwell
Experience The Blackwell At The Ohio State University. The Blackwell Is Columbus' Newest Upscale Hotel, Featuring The Best In Guest Service And Comfort, Along With The Highest Levels Of Technology And Resources. Each Guestroom Combines State-of-the-art…more

About Ohio State University

One of Ohio's greatest assets, The Ohio State University is a world-class public research university and the leading comprehensive teaching and research institution in the state. Ohio State provides a distinctive educational experience for students and pursues cutting-edge interdisciplinary research that brings together scholars from diverse disciplines to solve key problems in society. One of the university's core values is to "ignite a lifelong love of learning" in students. Ohio State students benefit from a scholarly environment in which research inspires and informs teaching.

Ohio State is a multi-campus university with a main campus in Columbus; regional campuses in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark; the Agricultural Technical Institute (ATI) and Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) in Wooster; and Extension offices in every county around the state. With more than 60,000 students, 18 colleges, and 170 majors, the university offers its students tremendous breadth and depth of opportunity in the liberal arts, the sciences, and the professions.

With more than 400,000 alumni all over the world, Ohio State has attained international distinction in education, scholarship, and public service. Closer to home, the university provides a sense of history and identity to the Columbus community and to the state as Ohio's flagship university.

Ohio State is committed to increasing its leadership in research and scholarship to benefit residents of Ohio, the United States, and the world. According to the latest U.S. government rankings, Ohio State now ranks seventh among the nation's public research universities and 11th among all universities in research expenditures. The funding from industry-sponsored research puts them in second place nationally. Ohio State's total research expenditures were $652 for fiscal year 2006 and are projected to reach $720 million during fiscal year 2007.

Research highlights: Solving global problems: The university plans to spend $110 million toward 10 high-impact research projects, including clean sustainable energy, climate change, and public health preparedness; Climate change: Researchers at the Byrd Polar Research Center have analyzed tropical ice cores and climate records from around the world to get a picture of how modern climate is changing, including clues to global warming and other planetary climate events; State-of-the art equipment: Our faculty and students have access to some of the most advanced research equipment in the world. One of the newest is the first North American site for the world's highest-resolution, commercially available scanning/transmission electron microscope, the Titan 80-300; Prostate cancer: Ohio State is a leader in the field of robotic prostate surgery under the leadership of Vipul Patel, MD, one of only two surgeons in the world to have performed the robotic prostatectomy procedure more than 1,400 times; Diseases: The gene research work of microbiologist Tina Henkin could lead to more potent antibiotics for fighting tuberculosis and pneumonia; Alternative energy: Our Center for Automotive Research recently became the first automobile hydrogen refueling station in Ohio.

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