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Chair’s Message | New Building, New Board, New Opportunities

Dr. Stephen Bergmeier

By Steve Bergmeier Professor & Chair of Chemistry & Biochemistry I hope all is well with you. Much has changed in our local community, as in the world, due to this challenging and unprecedented time. However, our commitment to you, our extended department family of alumni, students and friends, remains […]

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November 30, 2020 at 7:21 pmNews

OHIO Mock Trial Wins AMTA Invitational Tournament, Four Students Win Awards

Mock Trial Members After AMTA Invitational

The Ohio University Mock Trial team competed in the first ever American Mock Trial Association (AMTA) Virtual Exhibition Tournament, with OHIO’s Green Team winning the tournament with the best competition record of the Nov. 21-22 weekend. Twenty-four teams from across the country participated in the tournament, with Ohio University fielding […]

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November 30, 2020 at 1:15 pmNews

Deep Time Maps: 1804 Special Library Endowment Fund Grant Provides Access to Earth’s History

Plate positions at the end of the Cretaceous Period, the time of the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.  DeepTime Maps ©2016

Dr. Alycia Stigall, Professor and Chair of Geological Sciences, was awarded the 1804 Special Library Endowment Fund to support the acquisition of three series of paleogeographic maps produced produced by Dr. Ron Blakey and distributed through Deep Time Maps. Through this purchase the full set of global, North American, and […]

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November 30, 2020 at 12:25 pmIn Class News

Susan Burgess is Chair of the Law and Courts Section of the APSA

Dr. Susan Burgess

  Dr. Susan Burgess will serve as Chair of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. Burgess is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture ay Ohio University. She has held a number of leadership positions […]

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November 23, 2020 at 11:49 amNews

Kennedy Prepares for Law School in Law, Justice & Culture Master’s

Kennedy Prepares for Law School in Law, Justice & Culture Master’s

Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. During his senior year Ohio University, Jacob Kennedy was looking for a way to continue studying law while preparing for law school. He found a perfect […]

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November 18, 2020 at 8:35 amNews

Gar Rothwell Continues Uncovering the History of Plant Life on Earth

Dr. Gar Rothwell

Alumni, Colleagues Celebrate Rothwell’s Discoveries about Plant Evolution Distinguished Professor Emeritus Gar Rothwell just keeps discovering new things. That’s because he keeps looking. Rothwell may have “retired” from Ohio University in 2010, but he has continued his work, contributing an additional 62 scientific studies since that time, including 11 journal articles […]

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November 17, 2020 at 10:25 amNews Research

No Conference? No Problem! Says Tytko about Presenting Online during COVID-19

Tanya Tytko presents her research.

By Tanya Tytko ’20MA Linguistics  Spring 2020 semester was supposed to be the highlight of my master’s program. I was planning to present several research projects on which I was collaboratively working in the Linguistics Department at Ohio University and my individual research. In late February, when we all started […]

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November 16, 2020 at 11:31 amNews Research