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Marciniak: a Tear-Down-the-Walls Scholar

Marciniak: a Tear-Down-the-Walls Scholar

While some scholars study the science of structure and organization, Dr. Katarzyna Marciniak is a tear-down-the-walls sort of scholar. She grew up in Poland “behind the Wall,” but as a leading author on transnational feminism, she writes about immigration, borders, and rage in what she calls “noborders scholarship.” In an […]

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May 5, 2014 at 11:11 amNews Research Uncategorized

Classics & World Religions Students Get Prizes, Awards, Scholarships

The Department\Classics & World Religions at Ohio University recognized students and graduating seniors on April 24 at a reception at Professor Emeritus George Weckman’s home. Super Greek Prize For student who has distinguished him or herself in Greek. The award is named after Charles William Super, who was Professor of […]

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May 4, 2014 at 5:35 pmUncategorized

Faster than Mass Spectrometry? No ‘CSI’ Lab Needed?

Faster than Mass Spectrometry? No ‘CSI’ Lab Needed?

From finding new compounds for drug development to detecting narcotics or explosives at crime scenes, scientists have relied on mass spectrometry to identify molecules. Dr. Hao Chen is developing a portfolio of technologies that can expand the capabilities of this classic technique. “Our research focuses on the new mass-spec innovation […]

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April 14, 2014 at 4:56 pmResearch Uncategorized

Climb to the Top: Field Camp Puts Seniors to the Test

Allison Durkee ’13 has already been to the top of the world. At least that’s what the wooden signpost said. “Top of the World Store and Hotel … supplies and gas.” Somewhere in the northern Rockies. But there was no hotel for Durkee and the other students in the geology […]

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March 30, 2014 at 3:33 pmUncategorized

Fire to iPhone Theme: The Technological Human

College of Arts & Sciences faculty are tackling the challenges of the 21st century by building interdisciplinary and team-taught courses around a new set of curricular themes. From Fire to iPhones, human beings have always engaged in developing new technologies to improve their work, quality of life and relationships with […]

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February 6, 2014 at 1:41 pmUncategorized

Minutes of the Meeting of Rural Women’s Studies Association Meeting, 2013

Minutes of the Meeting of Rural Women’s Studies Association Meeting June 15, 2013 Banff Centre List of those present: Cindy Prescott; Katherine Jellison; Linda Ambrose; Jenny Barker-Devine; Jeannie Whayne; Rachel Kleinschmidt; Maggie Weber; Anne Moore; Barbara Steinson; Jodey Nurse; Andrea Gal; Sara Egge; Claire Strom; Pamela Riney-Kehrberg; Anne Effland; Ruth […]

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June 15, 2013 at 9:59 pmUncategorized

Updating the Classics

April 5, 2012 Tim Smith Five Books Interviews is a blog (part of a larger site called The Browser) which is a source of consistently great ideas for More Stuff to Read. Here’s the description of what this site is all about: “Each day our editors interview a renowned authority […]

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June 1, 2013 at 5:05 pmUncategorized