Archive for August, 2016

Dr. Keith Milam, Associate Professor of Geological Sciences, spoke at the Serpent Mound Park on Aug. 20 during the annual Archaeology Day, reports the People’s Defender. As one of the premiere examples of earthen artworks in North America  the 1,348 foot serpent has become a major attraction for those interested […]

Applications are now being accepted for the fifth annual OHIO spring break study abroad program on Human Rights, Law & Justice in Northern Ireland. For more information, contact Program Director Dr. Haley Duschinski, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture. Application information is online, […]

For students interested in helping other Bobcats, Students Defending Students (SDS) is accepting applications for advisor positions from now until Sept. 16. SDS is a subsidiary of the OHIO Student Senate. This one-of-a-kind organization provides student advisors who assist other students going the the process of Community Standards. SDS Student Advisors […]

Dr. Brian Schoen‘s “Southern Wealth and Global Profits: Cotton, Economic Culture, and the Coming of the Civil War” will appear in The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War, edited by Jörg Nagler, Don Doyle, and Marcus Graeser (Palgrave-Macmillan Press, 2017). Schoen is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University. The chapter examines […]

The Food Studies theme is proud to present the new Food and Society Certificate undergraduate program. The Food and Society Certificate represents a series of courses that challenges students to think critically about an aspect of their lives simultaneously deeply personal, public, and political. The certificate promotes an interdisciplinary understanding of how what’s […]

In August 2016, Merck Research Laboratories gave a Technology Collaboration Award to Dr. Qiuling Zheng, Meihong Hu and Dr. Hao Chen at Ohio University for their collaboration in developing desorption electrospray mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) analytical methodology to study the key stoichiometric and catalytic intermediates in support of mechanistic understanding of […]

Dr. Jaclyn Maxwell, Associate Professor of History, published “Social Interactions in a Rural Monastery: Scholars, Peasants, and Monks in the Life of Hypatius“ during the 2016 summer. The scholarly work appeared as a chapter in Motions of Late Antiquity: Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society in Honor of Peter Brown, edited by Jamie Kreiner and Helmut  Reimitz […]