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St. Louis Media Reports on Plants & Gravity in Space Research

“When NASA’s SpaceX Dragon rocket launches into space on Jan. 6, plants that are part of a research project between Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Ohio University will be on board. The experiment will test how plants respond to gravity,” reports the St. Louis Business Journal on Dec . 19. […]

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December 22, 2014 at 1:45 pmFaculty in the News In the News

Abu-Rish Interviewed on Emergence of ISIS and Regional Ramifications

Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish

Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, was interviewed on the emergence of ISIS and regional ramifications in October by Epohi, a weekly newspaper produced in Greece. Abu-Rish is co-editor of Jadaliyya, where he published an English translation of the interview. Epohi primarily focuses on Greek politics […]

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December 22, 2014 at 1:32 pmFaculty in the News In the News

Corante Blogger: ‘NMR of a Mass Spec Species’

Blogger Derek Lowe writes about a journal article on “Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Structure Elucidation of Peptide b2 Ions” by Ohio University researchers Pengyuan Liu and Dr. Hao Chen of the Center for Intelligent Chemical Instrumentation, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and the Edison Institute of Biotechnology at Ohio University. […]

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Messenger: OHIO Team to Launch Rocket to Study Effects of Gravity on Plant Life

“The public is invited to attend a local rocket launch celebrating an Ohio University experiment that will be traveling to the International Space Station next week,” reports the Athens Messenger. Ohio University’s Team Gravitron, led by Sarah Wyatt, professor of Environmental Plant and Biology and principle investigator, will be conducting […]

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December 12, 2014 at 7:08 pmFaculty in the News In the News

Hla Works on ‘Instrument Set to Revolutionize Materials Characterization’

Dr. Saw-Wai Hla

Dr. Saw-Wai Hla, Professor of Physics at Ohio University, is part of a team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, Ill., and Ohio University that has devised a powerful technique that simultaneously resolves the chemical characterization and topography of nanoscale materials down to the height […]

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Alum Interviews Stokes on Banning Word ‘Feminist’

Ohio University alum Erica Euse ’12 interviewed Dr. Patricia Stokes for a Vice.com article on “We Definitely Shouldn’t Ban ‘Feminist.’” Euse earned a B.S. in Journalism from the Scripps College of Communications and a Women’s and Gender Studies Certificate from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. Stokes […]

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November 25, 2014 at 12:52 pmAlumni in the News Faculty in the News In the News

Schoen: Europe Was Watching to See What Happened at Gettysburg

Dr. Brian Schoen. Photo courtesy of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission

Dr. Brian Schoen was part of an international panel that discussed the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg—one of the iconic battles of the American Civil War—on the radio show Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan. Schoen, Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, is the Fulbright-sponsored Mary Ball Washington Professor of American […]

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