Archive for September, 2013

Dr. Sergio Ulloa, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Dr. Nancy Sandler, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, traveled to Brazil during the 2013-14 academic year to participate in several conferences.: They will give several lectures at conferences in Brazil in September 2013. They co-organized several of the events, including a […]

Michael McLaughlin, a Mathematics student in the College of Arts & Sciences, presents an Undergraduate Math Seminar, “Polarizations with Respect to Real Hypersurfaces—Experience and Math from an REU,” on Wednesday, Oct. 2, from 4:10 to 05:05 p.m. in Morton 122. “Opportunities for undergraduate research in mathematics can seem scarce or […]

The College of Business and the College of Arts & Sciences host Consul General of Canada Roy B. Norton for a discussion on “The World’s Largest Trading Relationship: How the United States and Canada Built It – and Where It’s Headed”  on Thursday, Oct. 3, at 3:30 p.m. at Ohio […]

Timothy Schmitt, an Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences alum who majored in Geography, was named among 10 young professionals expected to contribute to in Lansing, Mich., over the next 10 years. Schmitt is a community development analyst for the City of East Lansing. He graduated from Ohio University with […]

The Athens Messenger interviewed College of Arts & Sciences alum Ed Newman ’81, ’03M for its series on “Putting Down Roots,” students who came and decided to stay in Athens. Newman “currently serves on the board of the nonprofit Athens County Recycling Centers Inc., is on the Athens Environment and […]

By Corinne Colbert  In his famous “Checkers” speech, Richard Nixon—then a senator from California and Dwight Eisenhower’s troubled running mate in the 1952 presidential election—downplayed his connection to a cabal of extremely wealthy donors. He portrayed himself as a middle-class guy whose wife wore “a respectable Republican cloth coat” and […]

Dr. Peggy Zoccola, Assistant Professor of Psychology, appears in the “Real women, real-world advice” section an article in the October 2013 edition of Good Housekeeping with simple advice from her recent study on how dwelling on stressful events can increase inflammation in the body. “If you only do one thing […]