Research

Dr. Sergio Ulloa, Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University, and graduate student Oscar Avalos co-authored an article in Physical Review B titled “Thermoelectric transport through Majorana bound states and violation of Wiedemann-Franz law.” Their co-authors, J.P. Ramos-Andrade and P.A. Orellana,  are from the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Chile. […]

by Kristin M. Distel Dr. Nicole Reynolds, Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, gave two conference presentations on Alden Library’s Special Collections and the Edmund Blunden library in summer 2016. Discovering Blunden Blunden, a World War I poet, avid book collector, literary critic, and Oxford Professor […]

Dr. Ryan Shorey, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Ohio University, co-authored an article in Psychology of Violence on “Do Alcohol and Marijuana Increase the Risk for Female Dating Violence Victimization? A Prospective Daily Diary Investigation.” Abstract Objective: Dating violence is a serious and prevalent problem, with females being victimized by […]

Dr. Eric Masson, Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, was awarded a two-year grant for $110,000 from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund in March 2016 to study the encapsulation of hydrocarbons into Cucurbiturils, a family of hollow pumpkin-shaped molecules that the Masson group has been investigating since 2008. […]

The Ohio Bobcat Nano-wagon team reached a milestone in June 2016 when the group of Dr. Eric Masson, Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, completed the synthesis of the nanocar that will compete in the first-ever race of molecular cars in Toulouse, France, end of April 2017. Graduate students Mersad […]

Dr. Melissa Figueroa, Assistant Professor of Spanish, presented a paper on “Theater Reminiscences: The Politics of Memory after the Expulsion of the Moriscos” at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association in Boston. The paper explored how the Moriscos—descendants of Muslims in Spain who were forced to convert […]

by Kristin M. Distel Doctoral student Michelle Pretorius’ novel, The Monster’s Daughter, has received many glowing reviews from domestic and international outlets. The novel, Pretorius’s first, was published in July 2016 by Melville House and Audible. The Monster’s Daughter takes as one of its two main characters Alet Berg, a […]