Post Tagged with: "faculty in the news"

The Washington Post quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History at Ohio University, in a Style section article headlined “A tiny staff. An aide’s abrupt departure. That jacket. Why Melania Trump’s Be Best is off to a slow start.” Katherine Jellison, a history professor at Ohio University, says Be […]

Does Earth have another supercontinent hidden in its geologic history—about 600 million years ago? “It looks like all hell was breaking loose on Earth, and my guess is that Pannotia is at the center of all these weird and wonderful things that were happening at that time,” says Dr. R. Damian Nance, Distinguished […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, authored an article at Forbes headlined “The Cost Of Neglecting Our History.” As I begin my 54th year of teaching American economic history at Ohio University shortly, I despair how abysmal ignorance of the roots of American economic and political exceptionalism […]

Dr. Mark Lucas, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, helped children to create judo-bots with the Ohio Valley Museum of Discovery in The Plains, according to an Athens Messenger story headlined “Robots battle it out at The Plains Public Library.” THE PLAINS — It was an exciting afternoon at The […]

Dr. Daniel Phillips, Professor of Physics & Astronomy and Director of the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, was quoted in an article headlined “How many neutrons can you cram into an atom? More than physicists thought” in Science magazine. Physicists in Japan have blasted out the heaviest calcium nuclei ever […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, authored an article at Forbes headlined “Colorado State, Rutgers, Eastern Michigan University: Fiscal Insanity In College Sports.” Summer is when sports fans take a hiatus from big-time collegiate competitions involving balls. Perhaps it is a good time, then, to reflect […]

Dr. Linda Rice, Professor and Chair of English at Ohio University, was quoted in an Instructional Innovation story headlined “AIA-Supported Projects: Synergies in Teaching and Learning.” Vouzianas is a lecturer of engineering and technology fundamentals in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology. His students in the “Overview of Engineering […]