Research

 By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Ohio University alum Dr. Jack Steiner (B.S. HTC Astrophysics, B.S. Applied Mathematics, 2006) has been named an Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow. This program, sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and administered by the Chandra X-Ray Center (CXC), is focused on research in […]

When it comes to running, there’s a gender gap between men and women that even elite training doesn’t erase. “Why are most women, on average, slower than men?” asks Runner’s World in the April 2015 edition. “At every distance up to the marathon, the gap between men’s and women’s world […]

The Rainy Season: Three Lives in the New South Africa, a new work of literary journalism by Maggie Messitt, releases in April. Messitt is a doctoral student in Ohio University’s Creative Writing non-fiction program. Just across the northern border of a former apartheid-era homeland sits a rural community in the […]

 By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Dr. Daniel Phillips, Professor of Physics at Ohio University, co-authored a ground-breaking paper describing how patterns of protons scattered in lab experiments can be explained by examining interactions between the quarks that make up the protons. Phillips and physicists Daris Samart and Carlos Schat […]

A U.S. patent was granted to Ohio University on Feb. 24 for “Growth hormone and interferon-alpha 2 glycoproteins produced in plants.” Dr. Marcia Kieliszewski, Professor of Chemistry, is one of the inventors, along with Jianfeng Xu, John Kopchick, Shigeru Okada, and Gary Meyer. Abstract: Methods of increasing the yield in […]

Dr. Roberto Duncan, Professor of Economics at Ohio University, published a working paper on “A Threshold Model of the US Current Account” in October 2014. The study was for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Abstract: What drives U.S. current account imbalances? Is there solid […]

Valparaiso, Round the Horn, a book of short stories by English doctoral student Madeline ffitch, is just out at Publishing Genius Press. ffitch is a doctoral student in the Creative Writing fiction program in the English Department at Ohio University. She will be reading from the book on March 1 […]