Alumni

Hannah Plumer ’10 just completed her Ph.D. dissertation defense at the University of Sheffield in February. Her research focused on ancient Maya health and disease of three separate Maya sites located in the Three Rivers Region of northern Belize. After Plumer graduated with her B.A. in Anthropology with a minor […]

Lauren (Szejk) McAndrews ’86 is Vice President Environmental Affairs and Sustainability and Assistant General Counsel at Allegheny Technologies Incorporated, a large specialty materials manufacturer. In this role she is responsible for environmental compliance of all their operations around the globe and for implementing the company’s inaugural sustainability program, which addresses […]

After graduating from the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio University with a B.A. in Anthropology, with a minor in Philosophy and a certificate in War and Peace, Ron Hedrick ’12 ’15M decided to take a year off to travel/backpack before returning to Athens to earn an M.A. in […]

Ian Thompson ’16 graduated Cum Laude with a B.A. in Sociology-Criminology and a minor in Anthropology from the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio University. “I had no idea what I wanted to do once I left college,” he says. “My main goal, I suppose, was to land an […]

Physics & Astronomy 2015-16 Student News Sean McGraw won first place in Ohio University’s inaugural 3-Minute-Thesis (3MT) competition, hosted by Graduate College. His presentation title was “Black Holes: Little Engines that Control the Evolution of Galaxies.” Andrea Richard received the Science Graduate Student Research Award from the Department of Energy […]

Physics & Astronomy announces the following 2015-16 graduate degrees awarded. Master’s Degrees Pooja Chopra (M.S.) Saroj Dhakal (M.S.) Sushila Khadka (M.S.) Riffat Munir (M.S.) Yuanzhi Wang (M.S.) Leo Zella (M.S.) Doctoral Degrees Rami Amro, Ph.D. Adviser: Dr. Alexander Neiman Dissertation: ‘Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics and Signal Amplifications in Sensory Hair Cells’ […]

Physics & Astronomy alumni news from 2015-16. 2010 – 16 Sean McGraw, Ph.D. 2016 (adviser Shields), will start in Fall 2016 as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Penn State in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Brian Muccioli, Ph.D. 2016 (adviser Prakash), is working for Frontier Technologies as a research scientist, […]