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Rosen and Thankachan Present on ‘BYOD in Indian Classrooms’

A teacher using his phone in class. Photo by Matt Rosen.

By Richard Morris, ’20 Dr. Matthew Rosen and Dr. Briju Thankachan presented  “Informal Practices and Innovations in Teaching and Learning: BYOD in Indian Classrooms” at the 2018 Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention in Kansas City, Mo. Rosen, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University, and Thankachan, Director of […]

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December 21, 2018 at 2:35 pmResearch

Yoong Publishes Poem, ‘Citrus Reticulata’

Doctoral Student Regina Yoong

Regina Yoong, a Ph.D. student in Literature, published one of her recent poems, a piece titled “Citrus Reticulata 橘子.” The poem closely examines the image of a mandarin orange alongside the speaker’s recollections of her father. Yoong writes near the end of the poem: Unteach me the ways of peeling, […]

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December 16, 2018 at 6:27 pmResearch

Johnson Lab Part of Grant to Study Bat and Song Bird Migration

The federally threatened northern myotis (Myotis septentrionalis), one of the species to be studied over the next several years.

Dr. Joseph Johnson and a team of researchers from universities, state agencies, and non-governmental organizations in the eastern United States have been awarded a federal grant to expand the Motus Wildlife Tracking System throughout the region. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University. Johnson’s lab will be […]

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December 11, 2018 at 12:23 pmResearch

Physicists Uncover Geometric Correlations in Self-Grown Graphene Nanoribbons

Dawei Zhai and Nancy Sandler

Two Ohio University physicists who were part of an international collaboration reported results of a study on self-grown graphene nanoribbons in the paper, “Linking interlayer twist angle to geometrical parameters of self-assembled folded graphene structures,” published recently in 2D Materials, a journal of the Institute of Physics. The work proposes […]

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December 10, 2018 at 4:54 pmResearch

Call for Papers: OHIO History Graduate Conference, Non-Historians Welcome

Bentley Annex, the building housing the History Department

The History Graduate Student Association at Ohio University invites graduate students to submit research and paper proposals for the 14th Annual Ohio University History Graduate Conference to take place on March 22-23, 2019. Eligibility of Paper Topics (Non-Historians Welcome) Students working on the contemporary period in any geographical region are […]

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December 10, 2018 at 9:37 amAnnouncements News Research

Kaya Asks Electronics: How Small Can They Go?

Kaya Asks Electronics: How Small Can They Go?

  By Amanda Biederman NQPI editorial intern In 1946, the world’s first functional digital computer filled an entire room and weighed nearly 30 metric tons. As technological advances have expanded over the decades, technological devices have undoubtedly shrunk. Yet Dr. Savas Kaya, an Ohio University professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer […]

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December 7, 2018 at 4:43 pmResearch

Physicists Describe New Steps in Making Reversible Molecular Electronic Circuits

Diana Meneses-Gustin (Photo by Jean Andrews/Ohio University)

Physicists from Ohio University and the Federal University of Sao Carlos in Brazil have partnered to unravel the atomic mechanism that can be used to create nanometer scale and fully reversible electronic circuits on two-dimensional materials. This work was led by doctoral student Diana Meneses-Gustin and is part of an […]

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December 6, 2018 at 5:10 pmResearch