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“It’s the stuff for which Nobel Prizes are awarded. The big news in cosmology is all about inflation, a theory that the universe suddenly expanded at an enormous rate in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a second,” writes Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Ohio University Professor of Physics,  in his […]

Physics & Astronomy graduate student Mongi Dlamini was helping April 1 when “the crown jewel of the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility sparkled its way into a new era,” as Science Daily described it. That day will “forever remain engraved in my mind,” Dlamini says. The accelerator’s […]

By Dr. Brandon Kendhammer Excerpted from Washington Post blog Monday morning, a bomb exploded at a busy transit station in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, killing a reported 71 and wounding 124. While no one has yet taken official credit for the attack, all signs point to Boko Haram, a militant Islamist […]

“Scientists who study deep space and string theory usually don’t get that worked up over lunar eclipses,” writes Dean Narciso in the April 13 Columbus Dispatch. But at 2 a.m. on Tuesday, April 15, “Earth will block the sun’s light from reflecting off the moon, causing a total eclipse — […]

Dr. Assan Sarr, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, writes in the Athens News that the department is proud of its early commitment to the study of African history. This year, Ohio University’s African Studies Program is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The university developed a tradition that I might […]

Ohio University alum Dr. David W. Ewing ’85PhD has been named the new vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Bethany College, reports the Wheeling, WV, Intelligencer. Ewing earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the College of Arts & Sciences in 1985. Ewing will begin serving the […]

Ohio University alum Tim Pritchard ’10 will be a featured presenter at the May 4 Herb Faire, hosted by the Herb Society of the Preble County (OH) Historical Society. He earned a B.S. in Environmental Biology from the Department of Environmental and Plant Biology in the College of Arts & […]