Ohio State University

The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State or   , is a public research university in Columbus, Ohio. Founded in 1870, as a land-grant university and ninth university in Ohio with the 

Act of 1862, the university was originally known as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College. The college began with a focus on training students in various agricultural and mechanical disciplines but was 

Along with its main campus in Columbus, Ohio State also operates a regional campus system with regional campuses in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Newark, and Wooster.

developed into a comprehensive university under the direction of Governor Rutherford B. Hayes and in 1878 the Ohio General Assembly passed a law changing the name to "The Ohio State University" It has since grown into the third largest university campus in the United States.

The university is also home to an extensive student life program, with over 1,000 student organizations; intercollegiate, club and recreational sports programs; student media organizations and publications, fraternities and sororities; and three active student governments.

The university is a member of the Big Ten Conference for the majority of sports. The Ohio State Buckeyes men's ice hockey program competes in the Big Ten Conference, while its women's hockey program competes in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.

 Ohio State athletic teams compete in Division I Football Bowl Subdivision for the NCAA and are known as the Ohio State Buckeyes. 

 In addition, the men's volleyball team is a member of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association . is one of only fourteen universities in the nation that plays Division I football and Division I ice hockey. 

Michael V. Drake, former chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, assumed the role of university president on June  

Alumni and former students have gone on to prominent careers in government, business, science, medicine, education, sports, and entertainment.

Ohio State's 1,764 acres  of main campus is approximately 2.5 miles 4.0 km north of the city's downtown. 

Four buildings are currently listed on the National Historic Places: Hale Hall originally Hall Hayes Hall, Ohio Stadium, and Hall. 

Unlike earlier Ohio state universities such as Ohio University and Miami University, which have campuses with a consistent architectural style, architecture on the Ohio State campus does not conform to a unifying theme such as Gothic revival or Georgian. 

The Thompson Library was designed in 1913 by the Boston firm of Allen and in the Italianate Renaissance Revival style, and its placement on the Oval was suggested by the Olmsted brothers who had designed New York City's Central Park. 

Instead, the buildings at Ohio State are a mix of traditional, modern and post-modern styles. The William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library, anchoring the western end of the Oval, is Ohio State library's main branch and single largest repository. 

n 2006, the Thompson Library began a $100 million renovation with the stated aims of becoming a "global benchmark twenty-first century" library while maintaining the building's classical Italian Renaissance architecture.

 Its recent acquisitions were 16th among university research libraries in North America.Ohio State's library system encompasses twenty-one libraries located on its Columbus campus. 

Overall, Ohio State operates the 18th largest university research library in North America with a combined collection of over 5.8 million volumes. Additionally, the libraries receive approximately 35,000 serial titles on a regular basis.

An additional eight branches are located at off-campus research facilities, regional campuses, and a book storage depository near campus.

Byrd as well as a significant collection of polar research materials; The Research Library, which contains the world's largest collection of medieval Slavic manuscripts on ; The Ohio State Cartoon Library & Museum, the world's largest repository of original cartoons; The Lawrence 

 In all, the Ohio State library system encompasses fifty-five branches and specialty collections. Some of the more significant collections include The Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program, which contains the archives of Admiral Richard E.