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By Drs. Justin Frantz, Ken Hicks and David Ingram Physics & Astronomy What was it like before being flipped? Here’s some background: The course General Physics had been taught in a standard lecture-style format, with a primary audience of engineering students who are required to pass it to complete their […]

The Ohio University branch of AAUW has been awarded a grant to establish a Tech Savvy program for girls in sixth through ninth grades on May 17. “This is a great opportunity for the Athens AAUW to partner with Ohio University and offer an exciting science program for middle school […]

“Creativity and style gave a team from Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences a leg — or in this case, a leg lamp — up on its competition at this year’s Gingerbread House Decorating Contest,” wrote Angela Woodward in the Dec. 21 Athens Messenger and Compass. The six-member team’s […]

By George Mauzy From Compass Dr. Lewis A. Randolph, 61, former Ohio University Associate Professor of Political Science in the College of Arts & Sciences, died on Nov. 21 after a lengthy illness. Randolph, a native of Cincinnati, was born to William Mustin and Harriett Randolph on Feb. 1, 1952. […]

In the Dec. 6 edition of Conversations from Studio B, Kelee Riesbeck interviews Dr. Brian Collins of Classics and World Religions on how technology inhibits the in-depth studies of humanities and cultures among younger generations. Collins, the Drs. Ram and Sushila Gawande Chair in Indian Religions and Philosophy, also discusses the Hindu […]

Dr. Jieli Li, Professor of Sociology, is the new editor-in-chief of the journal American Review of China Studies, which is now partially sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences. The journal is official journal of Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States (founded in 1995) […]

Second in a Series on Macro-Evolution Using the fossil record—and specifically a case of mass extinction about 374 million years ago—can help illuminate why “modern” macro-evolutionary theory is in need of modernization. Darwin and his successors wrote the first chapters on evolution by looking at small changes in species over […]