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Students search for linguistic answers in Southern Ohio Language Project

Lynden Caldwell

From Ohio University News Getting Ready for Expo For Skyla Matteson, the big question is about “but.” For Will Mullen, “ing” is a variable worth studying. Noah Mcgeorge is on the hunt for intergenerational language variations. Lynden Caldwell is studying a vowel to see if people “sound” as Appalachian as they […]

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April 6, 2022 at 3:25 pmNews Research

What Emily Marino didn’t expect to find in the lab

Emily Marino

From Ohio University News Getting Ready for Expo From Emily Marino’s first day as a Bobcat, she knew she would be spending a lot of time in a lab, conducting experiments, and writing her Honors Tutorial College senior thesis. What she didn’t know was that it would be so much […]

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April 6, 2022 at 11:21 amNews

Riley Sombathy studies rings in dinosaur legs to see how they grew

Riley Sombathy in the lab with Allosaurus samples

From Ohio University News Getting Ready for Expo Riley Sombathy says nothing is more exciting than when he looks into the microscope and the rings appear on the slice of ancient Allosaurus bone. He’s using those rings—akin to tree rings—to learn more about how the dinosaurs that lived 150 million […]

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April 4, 2022 at 8:51 amNews Research

Alexis Karolin is documenting Asian American and Pacific Islanders’ history as it happens

Alexis Karolin at the Mahn Center in Alden Library

Getting ready for Expo From Ohio University News When historians look back upon societal stress and tumult during the pandemic, they will find plenty of information about the national increase in hate crimes against Asian American and Pacific Islanders and how the Ohio University community came together to create support […]

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April 4, 2022 at 8:29 amNews Research

Alumnae reunite to give faculty hands-on webinar on using Kahoot! to boost teaching

Alumnae reunite to give faculty hands-on webinar on using Kahoot! to boost teaching

From Ohio University News Ohio University alumnae Lu Cao and Olena Zastezhko reunited to give OHIO faculty a hands-on webinar on using Kahoot!, a game-based tool to boost teaching. The two were classmates 10 years ago in the M.A. in Applied Linguistics program and recently found themselves reunited in a […]

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April 1, 2022 at 10:02 amAlumni News

Colleagues mourn loss of graduate student Bernardo David Bastidas Mayorga

Bernardo David Bastidas Mayorga

From Ohio University News The College of Arts & Sciences mourns the loss of Bernardo David Bastidas Mayorga, a third-year doctoral student in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department who passed away on Saturday, March 26, following a brief illness. “Bernardo was a great colleague and close friend with many other […]

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March 30, 2022 at 1:47 pmNews

Law, Justice & Culture fall 2022 courses include Slavery in the Americas, Politics of Race, Crime and Media, and more

Law, Justice & Culture fall 2022 courses include Slavery in the Americas, Politics of Race, Crime and Media, and more

From Ohio University News The Center for Law, Justice & Culture’s law-related graduate course offerings for fall 2021 include both online and in-person courses for students in the M.A. in Law, Justice & Culture. The fall offerings include core courses as well as electives on Slavery in the Americas, the […]

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March 25, 2022 at 2:19 pmNews