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 “The Insect Apocalypse Is Here!” This is not a blockbuster starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, but the title of a November 2018 New York Times editorial that summarized some worrying trends in biodiversity conservation. Several recent studies from places as different as South American jungles and Germany have documented […]

Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Fredette and Dr. Kathleen Sullivan for being chosen as the recipients of funding from the Center for Law, Justice & Culture Research Fund. Fredette and Sullivan are both faculty affiliates of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture and associate professors in Political Science. The research […]

Dr. Dawn Bikowski, Director the English Language Improvement Program’s Academic & Global Communication Program, gave the keynote address at the “International Conference on Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages” in Hanoi, Vietnam. Bikowski was invited by Vietnam National University: University of Languages and International Studies. In attendance were nearly 400 teachers […]

Dinty Moore, Professor and Director of Creative Writing, co-edited a new book, Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine, published by University of Nebraska Press. He is also currently serving as the Mary Rogers Field and Marion Field-McKenna Distinguished University Professor of Creative Writing at DePauw University […]

Dr. Joshua Hill, Assistant Professor of History, recently published Voting as a Rite: A History of Elections in Modern China with Harvard University Press. The book offers an in-depth study of the intellectual and cultural history of elections in modern China. Hill covers the period from the Opium War to the present […]

Dr. Ashwini Ganeshan, Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Modern Languages Department, published an article on the impact of service learning on students’ understanding of the Spanish verbal aspect. Ganeshan co-authored the article with Dr. Cecilia Tocaimaza-Hatch of the University of Nebraska Omaha Foreign Languages and Literature Department. The article, […]

From Research Communications The Ohio University Research Committee has selected four faculty proposals, including Dr. Thomas Smucker, for funding during its fall 2018 cycle. In total, the committee awarded $26,462. Smucker, Associate Professor of Geography, received $7,905 for his project on “Foundations for Convergence: Bridges and Barriers between Disaster Risk […]