Archive for October, 2018

Dr. Akil Houston, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Ohio University, was quoted in an article on The Cut headlined “The Complicated Psychology Behind Bee-Stung Lips.” There is a fundamental discord, then, between what is attractive and what is found in nature when it comes to lips. The golden […]

Since Ohio University is a BioOhio Leadership Member, faculty and students can get a 20 percent discount off registration to the Women in Bioscience & Healthcare Conference in Columbus on Oct. 18. The full day event includes a continental breakfast, lunch, and a networking reception – and with the discount […]

Poet and multidisciplinary artist Dr. Bianca Spriggs kicked off the Ohio Northern University English Department Reading Series on Oct. 11. Spriggs is Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University. “Bianca is an award-winning writer and multidisciplinary artist from Kentucky. She is the author of five collections of poems, most recently Black Mermaid (Argus […]

In an increasingly polarized political atmosphere, the LGBT Center at Ohio University continues to be a safe and active campus organization. Founded in 1998, it is a largely successful contribution to campus operating from a small space in Baker Center. Throughout the past few weeks alone, the center has sponsored […]

Dr. David Drabold, Distinguished Professor of Physics & Astronomy, is an invited speaker at the 9th International Petra School of Physics on “Nano Physics: Fundamentals and Applications” in Amman, Jordan in October. Drabold will lecture on “Disorder on the nanoscale: ab initio simulations of amorphous materials” and “Electrons and phonons […]

Japan’s national daily paper, the Mainichi, noted the involvement of Ohio University and Dr. Chris Thompson in a story headlined “Japanese, int’l students still delivering water, energizing Iwate residents over 7 years on.” Thompson, Associate Professor of Linguistics, is in Japan this fall representing OHIO as the 43rd Kohei Miura […]

The Minneapolis Star Tribune quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in an article headlined “Can the University of Minnesota get a new president for a bargain?” Vedder and Rita Bornstein, president emeritus of Rollins College in Florida and an author of several books on higher education […]