Research

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Austin Way ’14, HTC Engineering Physics, received top honors at the recent 6th Annual Society of Physics Student Research Conference at Ohio University. His talk, “Fabrication of Photovoltaics,” was voted Best Presentation by a panel of faculty judges from the Department of Physics & […]

Physics graduate students Sushil Dhakal won Outstanding Poster for “Measurement of Neutrons from DD Reaction and Neutron Transmission from Iron Sphere” at the 2014 Stewardship Science Academic Programs (SSAP) Annual Review Symposium in Washington, D.C. Drs. Carl Brune and Steven Grimes Professors of Physics & Astronomy, and physics graduate students […]

  From California State University San Marcos News Center Researchers at Ohio University in collaboration with European colleagues have named a new group of red algae Sheathia after CSUSM professor Dr. Bob Sheath, an aquatic biologist and one of the preeminent experts on North American freshwater algae. The newly identified […]

Where have all the codfish gone? Dr. R. Patrick Hassett, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, is a co-author on a paper assessing the impact of global warming on the North Atlantic food chain. The researchers are using a new technique to acquire data on a tiny crustacean that is a […]

By Natalia Radic Perspectives During two periods in the 20th century, a small Michigan town called Idlewild was a popular resort community for the black middle class. It attracted intellectuals such as Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois during the 1920s, and top black entertainers, from Jackie Wilson and the […]

By Corinne Colbert From Perspectives She was a classic case of a child with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: A first-grader who impulsively pinched, shoved, and even bit her classmates. She failed to follow her teacher’s instructions and rarely completed her work. Luckily, her teacher was part of a research project run […]

Months before debate erupted over the concept of the “imperial presidency” and “executive orders,” Dr. Kevin Mattson was at the Roosevelt Institute in Ireland detailing a view that the power asserted by FDR and used by LBJ was undermined by the Vietnam War—and that liberals are unlikely to sustain its […]