Archive for March, 2021

National Geographic Quotes Jellison on Having Teacher as First Lady

Dr. Katherine Jellison

National Geographic quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined “What having a teacher as first lady might mean for your kid.” “She could use the White House in a way that Jackie Kennedy intended it to be,” Jellison says. “She wanted it to […]

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March 9, 2021 at 12:43 pmFaculty in the News In the News

Three History Students Get Student Enhancement Awards for Research

Three History Students Get Student Enhancement Awards for Research

From Ohio University News Three History students are among 21 students receiving Ohio University Student Enhancement Award funding for their original research, scholarship and creative work this spring. The Student Enhancement Awards are funded by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity and administered by the […]

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March 9, 2021 at 11:29 amIn Class News Research

Expo Deadline Has Creativity Up all over Campus; Watch out for Zlorps and Woodland Spirits

Liahna Brown at work on Blue Forest Game

As the March 15 registration deadline for the 2021 Virtual Expo looms, keyboards are clacking and neurons are firing all over campus as Ohio University students prepare for the opportunity to showcase their research and creative projects. Everyone—graduate, undergraduate, medical, online and regional students—is invited to participate. Register online for […]

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March 9, 2021 at 10:06 amNews

Virtual Silk Road Connects Uzbekistan and OHIO English as Second Language Initiative

The Andijan State University collaboratorsThe Andijan State University collaborators

OHIO’s OPIE and Andijan State University Collaborate on Online English Program  in 2020-21 For nearly two millennia, the trade route called the Silk Road connected the East and West. The Ohio Program of Intensive English and Uzbekistan’s Andijan State University didn’t let a pandemic stop their collaboration. Just as ideas were […]

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March 8, 2021 at 8:19 pmNews

Klein Curates Pattern and Disruption: Diné Lifeways and Embedded Mathematics

From left, curators Sally Fowler, Bob Klein and Henry Fowler

Dr. Robert Klein is a co-curator of Pattern and Disruption: Diné Lifeways and Embedded Mathematics at the Kennedy Museum of Art. Reserve your visit. Klein is Professor of Mathematics at Ohio University. Drawing from the Edwin L. and Ruth E. Kennedy Southwest Native American collection, this exhibition explores Diné (Navajo) weaving […]

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March 8, 2021 at 5:09 pmResearch

Advising Tip | Summer Course Registration Is Now Open

Advising Tip | Summer Course Registration Is Now Open

By Eileen Schulz College of Arts & Sciences Academic Advisor It is week nine of the semester, just as you are diving deep into your spring classes, it’s already time to think about your summer plans. Summer courses are now available to view online through the Course Offerings website. Summer […]

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March 8, 2021 at 1:31 pmNews

Popescu Challenges Students to Tackle World’s ‘Wicked’ Environmental Problems in New Textbook

Dr. Viorel Popescu

Dr. Viorel Popescu brings an urgency about environmental issues around the country and the world to today’s college students in a new edition of a textbook on conservation biology. “By embracing new theory and practice and documenting many examples of both conservation successes and the hard lessons of real-world ‘wicked’ […]

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March 5, 2021 at 3:24 pmResearch