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If You’d Rather Be Frodo Baggins or Sam Gamgee…Start Your Dream Here

If You’d Rather Be Frodo Baggins or Sam Gamgee…Start Your Dream Here

By Steve Hays Associate Professor Department of Classics and World Religions Dear Joe, C.S. Lewis (the Narnia guy and Milton scholar at Oxford and Cambridge), summing up his life at age 18, when he was admitted to Oxford, said: Nearly all that I loved I believed to be imaginary; nearly […]

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July 12, 2013 at 8:02 amIn Class News

Accelerator Lab Lets Visiting NY Students Shine in Neutron Measurements

Accelerator Lab Lets Visiting NY Students Shine in Neutron Measurements

This summer Prof. Stephen Padalino from the State University of New York at Geneseo and Prof. Mark Yuly from Houghton College and 10 of their undergraduate research students will be using the tandem accelerator at the John E. Edwards Accelerator Laboratory at Ohio University to make high energy neutrons related […]

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July 11, 2013 at 8:58 amNews Research

Boaler IDs South Florida Plants on Everglades Trip

Boaler IDs South Florida Plants on Everglades Trip

By Julian Boaler ’14 Environmental and Plant Biology Major, Ohio University Summer internship at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami, FL Hey everyone, I was lucky enough to take part in a day-long trip to the Everglades to do a little plant identification while learning about the natural history […]

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July 9, 2013 at 6:33 pmIn Class News

Moore’s Flash Nonfiction Book Earns Two ForeWord Awards

Moore’s Flash Nonfiction Book Earns Two ForeWord Awards

The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction, a book edited last year by Professor Dinty W. Moore, was honored in two categories in the ForeWord Review’s 15th annual Book of the Year Awards announced June 28. Moore’s Flash Nonfiction book took Honorable Mention in the Anthologies and […]

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July 9, 2013 at 5:03 pmNews

Kniola: Cave Adventures at Bernheim

Kniola: Cave Adventures at Bernheim

By Ryan Kniola Environmental and Plant Biology Major, Ohio University Summer internship at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest Howdy, You might remember from my overview post that I mentioned that on our free time Nate and I explore a cave that’s less than 2 miles away. The cave is owned […]

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July 5, 2013 at 2:14 pmNews

Kniola: A Trip to the Bernheim Fire Tower

Kniola: A Trip to the Bernheim Fire Tower

By Ryan Kniola Environmental and Plant Biology Major, Ohio University Summer internship at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest Hello again, I’d like to share with you a neat and historical spot at Bernheim. To give a few hints, it is the oldest standing structure, it’s made out of metal, and […]

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July 4, 2013 at 6:32 pmNews

SGE Field Trip: Up, Down and Around in the American Southwest

SGE Field Trip: Up, Down and Around in the American Southwest

Throughout the year the members of Ohio University’s chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon worked to fund raise and organize a 12-day field trip to the American southwest, culminating with a day hiking in the Grand Canyon. Sigma Gamma Epsilon is for all geology and earth science majors and graduates who […]

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June 30, 2013 at 11:07 amNews