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  From Ohio University News Twenty-five years ago, a book by two geology professors described an amazing history of the world, a cycle of mountains rising and continents colliding. Now Damian Nance and Margaret Thompson bring together scientists from around the world in a new book—with new scientific insights that […]

From Ohio University News At conferences in Ireland and Italy this summer, Theresa Moran and David Bell presented two views of the 1930s British pastime of rambling about the countryside — one from the perspective of nostalgic and hungry day hikers, and the other from the entrepreneurial women who responded […]

From Ohio University News As Japan awaits a decision on whether its city of Sapporo will get to host the 2030 Winter Olympics, Yeong-Hyun Kim spent the summer in Japan researching both the lure and the urban impact of being an Olympic venue. “After the pandemic-marred Tokyo 2020, you would assume […]

From Ohio University News If today’s social issues are but a moment in time on the trajectory of human development, then literature is not just a window to the past, but also a way to discuss the present. Ohio University Professor Carey Snyder, Ph.D., teaches “modern” literature, mostly from the […]

From Ohio University News As immigration politics abound in the United States, Dr. Emilia Alonso-Sameño organized a global seminar to talk about Spanish-speaking communities in the Americas from a global perspective. Language, culture and identity are entwined for Alonso-Sameño, professor of Spanish in the College of Arts & Sciences’ Modern […]

From Ohio University News James Petrik, Ph.D., professor and chair of Philosophy at Ohio University, is the new editor of the History of Philosophy Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal. “I am excited to continue the History of Philosophy Quarterly’s rich tradition of publishing scholarship that brings the history of philosophy to […]

 From Ohio University News As the world’s appetite for carbon-based materials like graphite increases, Ohio University researchers presented evidence this week for a new carbon solid they named “amorphous graphite.” Physicist David Drabold and engineer Jason Trembly started with the question, “Can we make graphite from coal?” “Graphite is […]