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Dr. Julie Roche, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, was invited to give a talk at the 2013 SACNAS National Conference & Special 40th Anniversary Celebration on Oct. 3 in San Antonio, TX. She will discuss “First Determination of the Weak Charge of the Proton.” One of the largest annual […]

Mark your calendars now for the 2013-14 Science Café and Café Conversation series, which kick off Wednesday, Sept. 11, with a line-up  that includes faculty from four Ohio University colleges, including four professors from Arts & Sciences. Café events are free and open to students, faculty and staff. Both cafés are […]

By Neil Bernstein, Associate Professor of Classics and World Religions, and Herta Rodina, Associate Professor of Modern Languages Dear Colleagues, You enjoy teaching. You’re good at it. Have you taken any risks in your teaching lately? Several institutional structures discourage faculty members, especially untenured faculty, from taking risks. Our dependence […]

“Is Truth True? What Makes Human Beings Valuable?” Scott Klusendorf, of the Life Training Institute, will deliver a lecture Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 8 p.m. in Walter 145. A Q&A session follows at 9 p.m. Klusendorf’s lecture seeks to address some of the following questions: “Can one make a statement […]

Dr. Alexander O. Govorov, Ohio University Professor of Physics and Astronomy, gives an invited talk on Nanophotonics at the IEEE Photonics Conference in Bellevue, Wash., Sept. 8-12. His talk is on “Optically active hybrid nanostructures: Injection of hot plasmonic electrons, exciton-plasmon interaction, chirality and related applications.” “Hybrid nanostructure excited by […]

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Physics and Astronomy doctoral student Yinyun Li ’13PhD, current holder of the department’s Y.-C. Chang Graduate Fellowship, has accepted a post-doctoral position beginning this fall in Germany, at the Georg-August-University Gӧttingen. “Yinyun has an outstanding record of academic achievement in our Ph.D. program, with […]

Two mountain ranges on two continents. Facing many of the same 2st century issues. This September, four professors from Ohio University will travel to the Carpathians/Appalachians International Conference 2013 at  the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (PNU) in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. The journey to the Carpathians will take place from Sept. […]