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While the Monuments Men movie depicts German looting of Europe’s cultural treasures, History Ph.D. student Seth Givens writes about U.S. looting of German civilian possessions. Givens, a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, published “Liberating the Germans: The US Army and Looting in Germany during the Second World War,” in […]

Gravity. Actors Sandra Bullock and George Clooney provided a theatrical look at how humans might experience the lack of gravity in space. But what about plants? Humans have touched the moon and sequenced the human genome. But answers to how plants respond to gravity are just now being unlocked—by students […]

Two writers connected with the Ph.D. program in Creative Writing at Ohio University have published essays in the new anthology, Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South & Women Behaving Badly, recently released by In Fact Books.  Author Dorothy Allison writes in her introduction, “The most dangerous stories are […]

By Natalia Radic/Perspectives magazine 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 Philip Barnes From high-tech airport security checks and banks that scrutinize the specifics of your credit card purchases, to city street cameras and the data collected on your Facebook postings, surveillance is “in the DNA” of modern society, argue the authors of a new book. Related Post: Top 10  […]

Dr. Charlotte Elster, Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University, gives a Nuclear Seminar on Feb. 4 at Louisiana State University. Her seminar is on “Spin Phenomena in Elastic Scattering of 6He and 8He off Protons.” “The calculation and derivation of microscopic optical potentials for calculating scattering observables for […]

“The difficulties of studying what no longer exists are legion,” writes Dr. Miriam Shadis, “and are particularly acute in the realm of women’s history, but … the absence of a discourse of visual imagery does not mean that this imagery never existed, nor that queens’ patronage did not play a […]