Research

Dr. Steve Miner, Professor of History and Director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences, presented a paper at a conference on Women in Warfare: From Troy to the Trenches in June at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict […]

High in the towering Andes Mountains of Peru, Professor Hugh Iltis was on his hands and knees looking for the haze filter that had fallen off his camera. Like Gulliver amid the Lilliputians, he stared at a miniaturized world through his hand lens. The year was 1962. The tiny plant […]

Dr. Harvey Ballard, Associate Professor of Environmental and Plant Biology, was among three Ohio University faculty awarded a spring 2013 Baker Fund award. Ballard’s research, “Completing collaborative taxonomic studies of Latin American violets (Violaceae)” was awarded $12,000. He began studying tropical American violets while earning his doctoral degree in the […]

Chinese is the most commonly used language in the world, with historical evidence tracing back to the Shang Dynasty (1600-1100 BC). With more and more people learning Chinese in an era of globalization, Dr. Liang Tao‘s research shows that there is still much to discover about this ancient language and how […]

Ohio University research merges manganese, gallium nitride in uniform layer Ten years ago, scientists were convinced that a combination of manganese and gallium nitride could be a key material to create spintronics, the next generation of electronic devices that operate on properties found at the nanoscale. But researchers grew discouraged […]

January 18, 2013 Tim Smith The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a Fellowship to Dr. Loren Lybarger, Associate Professor of Classics & World Religions, to support research on religion and identity among Palestinian immigrants in Chicago during the 2013-14 academic year. This grant will allow Lybarger to complete the […]

Ohio University Department of English Language and Literature Vol. 46, No. 5 Edited by David Sanders Publications Kelly Kathleen Ferguson, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in nonfiction, had her short story “The Texas Project” published in the New England Review, Vol. 33/No. 4. Scott Minar’s poem “Revisiting Snow Man” appeared in Crazyhorse last fall and was subsequently […]