Faculty in the News

Sky and Telescope quotes Dr. Douglas Clowe, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, in an article on “How Slippery is Dark Matter?” “Dozens of galaxy cluster collisions confirm that dark matter particles probably slip right past each other within messy cluster mergers,” writes Monica Young. “The existence of dark matter […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, penned an article on “Fleeing Leviathan” on March 30 at Forbes: My good friend Wendell Cox has sent me his analysis of recent Census Bureau data on population movements in […]

Dr. Joseph Kittle, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Ohio University, was mentioned in a Columbus Business First article on “Applied Biomolecular Technologies building biotech commercialization engine.” Applied Biomolecular Technologies Inc. is owned by three former Battelle biotech researchers and an entrepreneur pursuing a private path to getting research […]

“By any objective measure, our system of federal student financial assistance for college students has been an unmitigated disaster, Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, who posits a “income share” or “human capital contract” concept in […]

Dr. Tom Walker, Political Science Professor Emeritus, supports crisis intervention training for police, in an op-ed he wrote titled “Bill requiring mental health crisis training for police is a sound idea” in Maine’s Kennebec Journal/Morning Sentinel. A bill before the Maine Legislature, sponsored by Rep. Richard S. Malaby, R-Hancock, would […]

PBS NewsHour weekly poem series featured a reading of “As If” by Dr. J. Allyn Rosser, Associate Professor of English at Ohio University, from her new book Mimi’s Trapeze. The Artsdesk story carried the headline: Poet posits, ‘We humans, we’re kind of a disappointment.’ In Mimi’s Trapeze, her fourth book, […]

Two white dwarfs spinning around and around each other nearly 5,000 light years from Earth are making some waves, writes Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University, in the March 1 Columbus Dispatch. Using the largest telescopes of the European Southern Observatory, they saw two white […]