Archive for May, 2013

Alum Puts Law Degree to Use on Ohio’s Wrongful Conviction Project

Joanna Feigenbaum ’08, who majored in psychology and sociology at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences, earned her law degree from Ohio State University in 2011. Her fellowship with Wrongful Conviction Project gives her real-world experience in a program run by the Office of the Ohio Public Defender. OSU’s […]

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May 7, 2013 at 4:06 pmAlumni Alumni in the News In the News

Math Students Eat Pie and Talk Pi

Math Students Eat Pie and Talk Pi

Dr. Robert Klein brought a bagel challenge on Pi Day. Pies—pizza pies, blueberry pies, custard pies and more—were devoured on March 14 in honor of Pi Day (3.14). Math students displayed posters highlighting their research, and Dr. Robert Klein’s bagel challenge had students going round and round. Master’s student Ian […]

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May 7, 2013 at 4:06 pmNews

Fulbright Scholar Hopes Village Patterns in Romania Will Lead to Answers about Austrian Colonization

Fulbright Scholar Hopes Village Patterns in Romania Will Lead to Answers about Austrian Colonization

Distinctive architecture in the Danube-Swabian town of Lenauheim.  Image source: www.lenauheim.de What were they thinking in the House of Hapsburg when they looked at the Banat area of Romania in 1718? The newly conquered region had been part of the Ottoman Empire for 200 years but now lay devastated by […]

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May 7, 2013 at 4:06 pmResearch

Midwest Physicists Came to Talk Big and Small—from Quarks to Superclusters

Midwest Physicists Came to Talk Big and Small—from Quarks to Superclusters

By Jean Andrews Physicists from across the Midwest came to Athens in March to discuss “Quarks to Superclusters: the physics of the very big and the very small.” The Department of Physics and Astronomy hosted the Ohio Section of the American Physical Society (APS) on the Athens campus March 29-30. […]

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May 7, 2013 at 4:06 pmEvents News

English Alum: ‘A Black and White Feminist Working It Out’

“I’m complicated,” says Heidi R. Lewis ’05M in an article on the Feminist Wire about “the ways in which gender, race, socioeconomic status, and age intersect and shape our experiences.” After earning an M.A. in English Literature from Ohio University in 2005, Lewis earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from […]

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May 7, 2013 at 12:19 pmAlumni

Benjamin Rush Society: Lebar on Moral Rights and Healthcare

The Ohio University Chaper of the Benjamin Rush Society presents Dr. Mark Lebar, Associate Professor of Philosophy, in a discussion concerning moral rights from a philosophical standpoint and how these rights are embedded in the delivery of healthcare.

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May 7, 2013 at 1:12 amFaculty in the News

Awards Will Help A&S Students Pursue Research Projects

Eleven of the 21 students receiving 2013 Ohio University Student Enhancement Awards are studying College of Arts & Sciences majors or working with A&S faculty. The students received  funding for their original research, scholarship and creative work. The Student Enhancement Awards are funded by the Office of the Vice President […]

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May 6, 2013 at 6:06 pmResearch