The Ohio Accompaniment University, frequently referred to as Ohio Accompaniment or OSU, is a accessible analysis university in Columbus, Ohio. Founded in 1870, as a land-grant university and ninth university in Ohio with the Morrill Act of 1862, the university was originally accepted as the Ohio Agronomical and Automated College. The academy began with a focus on training acceptance in assorted agronomical and automated disciplines but was developed into a absolute university beneath the administration of Governor Rutherford B. Hayes and in 1878 the Ohio Accepted Assembly anesthetized a law alteration the name to "The Ohio Accompaniment University".It has back developed into the third better university campus in the United States. Forth with its capital campus in Columbus, Ohio Accompaniment aswell operates a bounded campus arrangement with bounded campuses in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Newark, and Wooster.
The university is aswell home to an all-encompassing apprentice activity program, with over 1,000 apprentice organizations; intercollegiate, club and recreational sports programs; apprentice media organizations and publications, fraternities and sororities; and an alive apprentice government association. Ohio Accompaniment able-bodied teams attempt in Division I (Football Bowl Subdivision for football) of the NCAA and are accepted as the Ohio Accompaniment Buckeyes. The university is a affiliate of the Big Ten Conference for the majority of sports. The Ohio Accompaniment Buckeyes men's ice hockey affairs competes in the Big Ten Conference, and its women's hockey affairs competes in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. In addition, the OSU men's volleyball is a affiliate of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Affiliation (MIVA) while the men's lacrosse aggregation is a affiliate of the Big Ten Conference. OSU is one of alone fourteen universities in the nation that plays Division I FBS football and Division I ice hockey. Alumni and above acceptance accept gone on to arresting careers in government, business, science, medicine, education, sports, and entertainment.
Michael V. Drake, above adjudicator of the University of California, Irvine, affected the role of university admiral on June 30, 2014.
Ohio State's 1,764 acreage (7.14 km2) of capital campus is about 2.5 afar (4.0 km) arctic of the city's downtown. Four barrio are currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Enarson Hall, Hayes Hall, Ohio Stadium, and Orton Hall. Unlike beforehand Ohio accompaniment universities such as Ohio University and Miami University, which accept campuses with a constant architectural style, architectonics on the Ohio Accompaniment campus does not accommodate to a accumulation affair such as Gothic awakening or Georgian. Instead, the barrio at Ohio Accompaniment are a mix of traditional, avant-garde and post-modern styles. The William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library, anchoring the western end of the Oval, is Ohio Accompaniment library's capital annex and individual better repository. The Thompson Library was advised in 1913 by the Boston close of Allen and Collens in the Italianate Renaissance Awakening style, and its adjustment on the Oval was appropriate by the Olmsted brothers who had advised New York City's Axial Park. In 2006, the Thompson Library began a $100 actor advance with the declared aims of acceptable a "global criterion twenty-first century" library while advancement the building's classical Italian Renaissance architecture.
Overall, Ohio Accompaniment operates the 18th better university analysis library in Arctic America with a accumulated accumulating of over 5.8 actor volumes. Additionally, the libraries accept about 35,000 consecutive titles on a approved basis. Its contempo acquisitions were 16th a allotment of university analysis libraries in Arctic America. Ohio State's library arrangement encompasses twenty-one libraries amid on its Columbus campus. An added eight branches are amid at off-campus analysis facilities, bounded campuses, and a book accumulator archive abreast campus. In all, the Ohio Accompaniment library arrangement encompasses fifty-five branches and specialty collections. Some of the added cogent collections awning The Byrd Arctic Analysis Centermost Archival Program, which contains the athenaeum of Admiral Richard E. Byrd as able-bodied as a cogent accumulating of arctic analysis materials; The Hilandar Analysis Library, which contains the world's better accumulating of medieval Slavic manuscripts on microform; The Ohio Accompaniment Cartoon Library & Museum, the world's better athenaeum of aboriginal cartoons; The Lawrence and Lee Theatre Analysis Institute; and the athenaeum of Senator John Glenn.
Detail of the Wexner Center
Anchoring the acceptable campus aperture at the eastern end of the Oval is the Wexner Centermost for the Arts. Advised by architects Peter Eisenman of New York and Richard Trott of Columbus, the centermost opened in 1989. Its founding was financed in ample allotment by Ohio Accompaniment alum Leslie Wexner with a allowance of twenty-five actor dollars in the 1980s. The centermost was founded to be a absolute beheld arts centermost encompassing all aspects of beheld and assuming arts with a focus on new commissions and artisan residencies. Allotment of its architectonics was to pay accolade to the arsenal that aforetime had the aforementioned location. Its groundbreaking deconstructivist architectonics has resulted in it getting acclaimed as one of the a lot of important barrio of its generation. Its architectonics has aswell been criticized as proving beneath than ideal for abounding of the art installations that it has attempted to display. The centerpiece of The Wexner Center's abiding accumulating is Picasso's Nude on a Black Armchair, which was purchased by alum Leslie Wexner at bargain for blaster actor dollars.
To the south of the Oval is another, somewhat smaller, amplitude of greenspace frequently referred to as the South Oval. At its eastern end, it is anchored by the Ohio Union. To the west are Enarson Hall, the Kuhn Honors House, Browning Amphitheatre (a acceptable rock Greek theatre) and Mirror Lake. Knowlton Hall, committed in October 2004, is amid at the bend of West Woodruff Avenue and Tuttle Park Place, adjoining to Ohio Stadium. Knowlton Hall forth with the Fisher Academy of Business and Hitchcock Hall anatomy an bookish basis in the Northwestern bend of Arctic campus. Knowlton Hall is home to the KSA Café, the disciplines of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, City and Bounded Planning, and about 550 undergraduate and alum students. Knowlton Hall stands out from the accepted brownish brick of Ohio State's campus with characteristic white marble tiles that awning the absolute exoteric of the building. This different bank cladding was requested by Austin E. Knowlton, the namesake of and capital angel to the conception of Knowlton Hall. Knowlton aswell requested that 5 white marble columns be erected on the site, anniversary cavalcade apery one of the classical orders of Architecture.
The Ohio Accompaniment Academy of Anesthetic is amid on the southern bend of the axial campus. It is home to the James Blight Hospital, a blight analysis convention and one of the National Blight Institute's forty-one absolute blight centers, forth with the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital, a analysis convention for cardiovascular disease.
