Research

The World Intellectual Property Organization published three patents involving Ohio University Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty. ‘Online Monitoring of Fuel Cell Reactions by Desorption Electrospray Mass Spectrometry’ WIPO published a patent of Ohio University for “Online Monitoring of Fuel Cell Reactions by Desorption Electrospray Mass Spectrometry.” Publication No. WO/2014/074699 was published on […]

  Dr. Amritjit Singh,Langston Hughes Professor of English at Ohio University, gives the closing plenary on “Migration, Exile, and NonViolence: Through a Transnational Glass Darkly” at the International Conference on the Cultural Politics of Memory on May 16 in London. The conference was hosted by the Centre for Critical and […]

As matter “cooks” to 4 trillion degrees Celsius—250,000 times hotter than the center of the sun—protons and neutrons melt into a liquid plasma of quarks and gluons. This liquid may have been present at the start of the universe for a few microseconds. See how Dr. Justin Frantz Catches a […]

Dr. Robin D. Muhammad’s article on “Separate and Unsanitary: African-American Women Railroad Car Cleaners and the Women’s Service Section, 1918-1920,” was named a runner-up for the prize for best article published by the Journal of Women’s History in 2011-2012. Muhammad is Chair and Associate Professor of African American Studies and […]

Third in a series on macro-evolution. In this article, Dr. Alycia Stigall discusses the fossil record of species biodiversity—and why it might be more important to protect “intermediate” species like the Arctic Fox than “specialist” species like the Polar Bear. By Sara LaJeunesse From Perspectives Billions lie dead on the […]

By Stephanie Dutchen From Perspectives Peer through a telescope and you’ll see a night sky filled with galaxies, gas and dust clouds, planets, pulsars, black holes, and ever more beautiful and strange objects. But this cosmic light show only reveals part of the picture. When you add the masses of […]

Gerald Goodwin has been awarded the Baker Peace Fellowship for 2013-14. He is completing his dissertation that focuses on the experiences of African Americans in the military during the Vietnam era (1965-1973) and more specifically the ways in which issues deriving from “race” shaped that experience. His research looks at […]