Research

 By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Xilin Zhang, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Physics & Astronomy recently completed an Intensity Frontier Fellowship. Zhang’s fellowship was co-sponsored by Fermilab, a U.S. Department of Energy particle physics and accelerator laboratory in Illinois, and the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics […]

Dr. Ayesha Hardison presented “Of Maids and Ladies: The Ethics of Living Jane Crow” at the University of Kansas on Oct. 30. Hardison examined the oppressive situation faced by women of color after the Civil War. “Working from the decline of the mammy in postbellum America to the rise of […]

Dr. Robin Muhammad, Associate Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Ohio University, is a member of In the Same Boat? Shipbuilding and ship repair workers: a global labour history (1950-2010). The project involves the study of shipbuilding labor around the world from World War II until the present […]

Dr. Carl Brune, Professor of Physics, has received a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Director’s Science and Technology Award for excellence in a basic science publication. Brune was selected for his contributions as a member of the team that published “Measurement of the T + T Neutron Spectrum Using the National […]

Dr. Ayesha Hardison presented two lectures Nov. 13 at the College of Wooster. “Re-Reading African American Literary History” Abstract: What do critiques of the film The Help, comic strips, Reverend Al Sharpton, and African American literary history have in common? Come find out! Professor Andreá Williams (Ohio State University) will […]

 By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Diego Mastrogiuseppe, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, and faculty members Dr. Nancy Sandler and Dr. Sergio Ulloa, have discovered a new way to control the interaction of magnetic impurities at the nanoscale level. The article describing their work has […]

Dr. Ahmed Faik, Nan Jiang, and Dr. Michael A. Held published “Xylan Biosynthesis in Plants, Simply Complex” in Advances in Plant Biology Volume 4, 2014, pp 153-181. Faik is Associate Professor of Environmental and Plant Biology at Ohio University. Jiang is a doctoral student in the Faik Lab. Held is […]