Archive for August, 2014

Environmental & Plant Biology graduate student Debarati Basu was one of five Ohio University graduate students who received Named Fellowships for the 2014-15 school year to pursue research and creative projects. Each of the five was awarded a fellowship of $15,000, plus a full tuition scholarship for fall and spring […]

Two Biological Sciences undergraduate students presented a paper at the 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 30 to Aug. 4 in Chattanooga, TN. William Ternes and Celeste Wheeler presented “Microhabitat Use of the Big Levels Salamander: A Microendemic Plethodontid,” co-authored with graduate student Vincent Farallo. The Big Levels […]

Dr. Sarah Wyatt waited for it—the simple phrase that would signal one small step for Arabidopsis, one big step for mankind’s knowledge of how plants respond to gravity. “Ready for the science,” said the Kennedy Space Center engineer on July 9. Dr. Darren Luesse handed the engineer a small petri dish […]

Welcome to the Tetris Effect, a “playable essay” in Dr. Eric LeMay new book In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments. LeMay is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing: Nonfiction in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. Today’s test for gamers: The Tetris Effect. Note: The Forum […]

Los Angeles Review of Books posted two reviews of Eric LeMay‘s In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments (Emergency Press, 2014). LeMay, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing: Nonfiction in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University, published, In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments. Micah McCrary […]

Newsmax quoted Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor of History at Ohio University, in a story on “Obama Sets Up ‘Mean’ Congress as Midterm Election Strategy.” Katherine Jellison, a professor of history at Ohio University, said the strategy of running against a “do-nothing” Congress has also been successful for past presidents, according […]

A Bloomberg article on “Record Student-Loan Debt Prompts Treasury Push to Stem Defaults” on July 24 quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University. The U.S. Treasury, which finances more than 90 percent of new student loans, […]