Archive for June, 2013

“Now that the White House has acknowledged that the Assad regime in Syria did use sarin gas on several occasions in March, killing 100-150 people, a couple of questions are immediately obvious. What will Obama’s next step be? What role should the United States play in this increasingly bloody conflict?” […]

Minutes of the Meeting of Rural Women’s Studies Association Meeting June 15, 2013 Banff Centre List of those present: Cindy Prescott; Katherine Jellison; Linda Ambrose; Jenny Barker-Devine; Jeannie Whayne; Rachel Kleinschmidt; Maggie Weber; Anne Moore; Barbara Steinson; Jodey Nurse; Andrea Gal; Sara Egge; Claire Strom; Pamela Riney-Kehrberg; Anne Effland; Ruth […]

  When two Hollywood coaches traveled to Athens to find talent for the new AMC reality show Showville, Ohio University twins brought their hula hoops to the audition. When episode 4 premiers on Thursday, June 13, Zoe and Tasha Seiter will be on stage at the Arts/West Center, where the […]

The Logan Daily used weather analysis from the Ohio University Scalia Laboratory of Atmospheric Analysis in its reporting on extreme weather June 13. The Scalia Laboratory is operated by the Department of Geography in the College of Arts & Sciences. At approximately 12:30 a.m. Thursday, the Ohio University Scalia Labratory […]

Dr. Harvey Ballard, Associate Professor of Environmental and Plant Biology, was among three Ohio University faculty awarded a spring 2013 Baker Fund award. Ballard’s research, “Completing collaborative taxonomic studies of Latin American violets (Violaceae)” was awarded $12,000. He began studying tropical American violets while earning his doctoral degree in the […]

Weather conditions today could bring a line of severe weather similar to the damaging high winds of last summer known as a derecho. Dr. Ryan Fogt, Assistant Professor of Geography and Director of the Scalia Laboratory for Atmospheric Analysis in the Ohio University Department of Geography, describes the conditions in […]

On his way to medical school, Devin Patchell ’09 took a global path—to the Negev Desert of southern Israel. One family at a time, he is helping Bedouins and nomadic people with little access to medical care establish a multi-generational shift toward preventive health care based on their unique needs. […]