Archive for October, 2013

Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, will be giving an invited plenary talk at the international conference known as Hadron 2013 in November in Nara, Japan. His talk will be on recent results relevant to particle physics from the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) Collaboration, from data taken […]

By Jill Wallenhorst from Compass Students in the fifth-grade class at Nelsonville-York Elementary School stood within feet of a tornado in the heart of Athens, but they weren’t scared. In fact, they loved it. The students weren’t storm chasing. They were on field trip to Ohio University’s Scalia Laboratory for […]

By Dr. Debra Thompson College of Arts & Sciences faculty are tackling the challenges of the 21st century by building interdisciplinary and team-taught courses around a new set of curricular themes. This proposed thematic track—So, You Want to Change the World: Promise and Peril—addresses questions of intentionality, action, and consequence […]

College of Arts & Sciences faculty are tackling the challenges of the 21st century by building interdisciplinary and team-taught courses around a new set of curricular themes. The War and Peace Studies Curriculum Committee is working on the theme “Conflict and Cooperation.” The committee has developed a list of optional […]

Intellectual Property Today reports that the Webb Law Firm added two new patent attorneys, one of them Ohio University alum Brian J. Gallagher ’08, who majored in Chemistry in the College of Arts & Sciences. Brian J. Gallagher has joined The Webb Law Firm as a Patent Attorney. Brian received […]

Courses and more information at the Becoming Human website. The phrase “Becoming Human” conjures up fragmentary images of primate prehistory in which our evolutionary ancestors made axe heads out of chipped flint and stared at cave walls transfixed by the shadows cast from their smoldering fires. But reflecting on ancestral […]

By Dr. Haley Duschinski College of Arts & Sciences faculty are tackling the challenges of the 21st century by building interdisciplinary and team-taught courses around a new set of curricular themes. The Center for Law, Justice & Culture has developed a new interdisciplinary thematic track, Making and Breaking the Law, […]