Post Tagged with: "faculty in the news"

A Washington Post arts critic reviews the dance “Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro,” noting how the main character is built on a character from two novels by Dr. Zakes Mda, Professor Emeritus of English at Ohio University. He built his mortality-themed dance around the character of Toloki, the professional-mourner protagonist […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, wrote a column at Forbes headlined “Clayton M. Christensen, R.I.P.” Like many professors raised in a liberal arts tradition, I generally do not think particularly highly or reverentially of business school faculty professing to explain how businesses click, what […]

The Ohio Capital Journal quotes Dr. Nicole Kaufman in Nationwide study finds high ‘sexual victimization’ in Ohio, Dems and DeWine ask for more data. Kaufman is Assistant Professor of Sociology and affiliated with the Center for Law, Justice & Culture at Ohio University. “There is a strong incentive for anyone in […]

Dr. Barry Tadlock, Professor of Political Science at Ohio University, was part of a research team featured in a story in SciTech Daily headlined “Research Reveals Public Attitudes About Transgender Athletes.” As several states draft legislation that would force student-athletes to play as their gender identified on their birth certificate […]

The Athens News quoted Dr. Julia Paxton in a story headlined “Baileys Trail: Opportunities & challenges for Chauncey: Chauncey’s new mayor says trail system can help community, but has fears about gentrification.” Paxton is Professor of Economics at Ohio University. Ohio University economics professor Julia Paxton said last week that […]

BBC Future talks about a study by Dr. Dominik Mischkowski, wondering “whether painkillers (acetaminophen) might be making it harder to experience empathy, in a story headlined “The medications that change who we are.” Mischkowski is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Ohio University. …This is something that Dominik Mischkowski, a pain […]

Dr. Brian Schoen discusses John Brown and the lead-up to his 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry with the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley on Jan. 16, reports the Parkersburg News and Sentinel. Schoen is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University. Schoen, associate professor of history at […]