Post Tagged with: "faculty in the news"

Inside Sources quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in a May 4 story finance headlined “Economy Adds 164K New Jobs While Unemployment Dips.” The job growth rate bounced back somewhat following a lackluster month by reaching 164,000 new jobs in April, detailed a federal report Friday…. […]

Anna Turner at Outlet on WOUB Digital quotes Dr. Edmond Chang, Assistant Professor of English, in a story headlined “Queer Representation in Video Games.” According to Chang, another one of the reasons queer representation is lacking in gaming is because the structure of the games themselves doesn’t leave much room […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, authored a column headlined “Mitch Daniels Has the Right Stuff for Purdue.” His column appeared on the website for the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. Higher education does not produce many flashy, innovating entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve […]

Science News quoted Dr. Madappa Prakash in an article headlined “Neutron stars shed neutrinos to cool down quickly.” Prakash is a Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University. Scientists have spotted the first solid evidence that some neutron stars, the collapsed remnants of exploded stars, can rapidly cool their […]

In a story headlined “Energy-saving windows made from common glass and cheap nanocrystals,” Nano Werk reports on research by Visiting Research Scholar Dr. Xiang-Tian Kong, and  Dr. Alexander Govorov, Distinguished Professor of Physics. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Buildings and other man-made structures consume as much as 30-40% of the primary energy in […]

The LA Times quoted Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined “For Melania Trump, the shroud of invisibility lifts during a week of public attention.” Ohio University historian Katherine Jellison said that while first ladies are almost always more popular than the […]

Dr. Philip Cantino, Professor Emeritus of Environmental & Plant Biology, was quoted in an Athens Messenger article headlined “Athens Conservancy awarded more than $1 million in grant funding.” Among the three tracts the Athens Conservancy plans to purchase is “land from American Electric Power in York and Dover Twps. to […]