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October 2014 Geological Sciences Newsletter Geological Sciences announces its 2014 Departmental Awards recipients: Fisher-Phelps Department Faculty Awards Outstanding Research Award: Dr. Alycia Stigall Outstanding Service Award: Dr. Gregory Nadon Outstanding Teaching Awards: Dr. Daniel Hembree and Dr. Craig Grimes Undergraduate  Student  Awards Outstanding Geology Major Award: Casey O’Brien Outstanding Environmental […]

Danielle Szabo From Compass Ohio University freshman Brook Knipp was ready to graduate from high school set in a tiny town in Lawrence County, Ohio. She was set to go to a central Ohio college in the fall. One day, she received a phone call from OHIO’s Office of Financial […]

From Compass Ohio University Executive Vice President and Provost Pam Benoit bestowed the honor of Outstanding Graduate Faculty Member on Dr. Thomas Vander Ven, Professor of Sociology and Director of Criminology in the College of Arts & Sciences. The Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award was established in 1972 to recognize a […]

From Compass Ohio University President Roderick J. McDavis bestowed the 2014 Distinguished Professor Award on Dr. Christopher France, Professor of Psychology in the College of Arts & Sciences. The prestigious Distinguished Professor award was established in 1959 and recognizes scholarly accomplishment, professional reputation and contribution to the University. With the […]

Dr. Robin D. Muhammad’s article on “Separate and Unsanitary: African-American Women Railroad Car Cleaners and the Women’s Service Section, 1918-1920,” was named a runner-up for the prize for best article published by the Journal of Women’s History in 2011-2012. Muhammad is Chair and Associate Professor of African American Studies and […]

In her youth, Dr. Alycia Stigall, Professor of Geological Sciences, made do with A Golden Guide to Fossils, but she hopes that today’s amateur fossil collectors and researchers will have at their disposal a more comprehensive guide. That’s why she and her colleagues are creating an online database—the Digital Atlas […]

By Stephanie Dutchen From Perspectives Peer through a telescope and you’ll see a night sky filled with galaxies, gas and dust clouds, planets, pulsars, black holes, and ever more beautiful and strange objects. But this cosmic light show only reveals part of the picture. When you add the masses of […]