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There are over 1,400 student organizations at Ohio State and over half of all students join a student organization. Students who choose to get involved achieve many positive outcomes - leadership skills, better grades, friendships and mentors, and make a big campus seem small. Use the tools below to search for, find, and get involved with student organizations.

You can also connect with many of our student organizations at our Student Involvement Fairs in August and January. Check out the Student Involvement Fairs webpage for the latest information.

For individualized assistance find the student organization that's right for you, schedule a Get Involved Consultation. These 30-minute meetings will provide a personalized list of recommendations based on your interests and aspirations.

Please consult this list of student organizations with revoked registration as of Spring 2024. Some organizations continue to operate after their registration has been revoked despite the action taken by the university. We encourage you to review an organization’s status before becoming involved with it, especially because sometimes an organization’s status is revoked due to serious concerns like hazing and other behavior that risks your health and safety.

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The CCBS Student Organization

Campus: Columbus
Status: Active - Established
Purpose Statement: The purpose of Consilience: The CCBS Student Organization is to create a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue amongst undergraduate, graduate, and post doc students. It is our belief that many of the scientific questions posed by the different disciplines reflect different approaches to the same underlying phenomena, rather than isolated queries unique to any particular discipline. It can only benefit our understanding of the underlying phenomena if we are exposed to the different scientific approaches used by fields outside of our own. Furthermore, it is important to develop the valuable skill of explaining, in an intelligible manner, what one is working on, to intelligent people outside of one’s own discipline. Consilience: The CCBS Student Organization will help to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaborative projects aimed at combining different scientific approaches to understand the underlying phenomena. In addition, Consiience: The CCBS Student Organization will strive to increase awareness and communication between the disciplines so that graduate students can take advantage of what the disciplines outside of their own have to offer.
Primary Leader: Erich Jones
Secondary Leader: Jenn Gleason
Treasurer Leader: Loane Forest
Advisor: Richard Samuels
Organization Email: consilienceccbs@gmail.com
Facebook Group Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1463979253868625/
Website: Not Listed
Primary Type: Academic/College
Secondary Types: Special Interest
Primary Make Up: Graduate
Constitution: 2019_10_16_04_51_43_2707.doc 
Meeting Time and Place: Every other Thursday at 1pm.
230 North Oval Mall
Columbus OH, 43201
Columbus, OH 43210
Office Location: 230 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43201
Membership Type: Open Membership
Membership Contact: Not Listed
Time of Year for New Membership: All year
How does a Prospective Member Apply: Not Listed
Charge Dues: No