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By OHIO Center for Law, Justice & Culture in Cambodia Last week we had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to explore the Angkor Archaeological Park, comprised of the more than 40 temples and ruins that once made up the capital cities of the Khmer Empire. From the 9th to 15th centuries, this empire […]

By Katie Conlon ’16 History HTC and Law, Justice &  Culture Research Externship in Cambodia Up until this point, we’ve been writing these posts collectively. That’s mostly because we’re all sharing the responsibility of updating you on our travels. But after spending a week in Siem Reap, staying on my own […]

Daniel Keyes, Professor of Creative Writing at Ohio University from 1966-90, passed away on June 15. Keyes arrived at Ellis Hall a year after his first novel—Flowers for Algernon—was published. His story of the mouse named Algernon, a man with an I.Q. of 68, and an experimental procedure to make […]

Dr. Eric LeMay published a new book, In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments. Why do we play the lottery when we know we’ll lose? How does what we laugh at tell us who we are? What happens when, through some misstep or mishap, we lose ourselves and become […]

The Geological Sciences Department was awarded a grant for a new microscope lab from the 1804 Fund for Undergraduate Learning. The grant will allow the department to move the existing lab to a larger classroom, increase the number of workstations, and acquire new reflected light microscopes. The larger lab is […]

By Samantha Rommel ’15 Studying Anthropology and Museum Studies Imagining International Justice in Post-Genocide Cambodia It’s been just over two weeks since I took the flight from Phnom Penh to Cincinnati, and I’ve had mixed feelings as I’ve adjusted back to life at home. On one hand, reuniting with family […]

  Is it time to rethink manned space travel? Dr. writes Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Ohio University Professor of Physics,  in his May 25 Columbus Dispatch column. “Transporting astronauts to the International Space Station has always been a problem,” Hicks writes. “Now, in response to recent economic sanctions from the United […]