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Jellison Keynotes European Rural History Organisation’s Conference

Katherine Jellison at European Rural History Organisation.

Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair History at Ohio University, gave the keynote lecture at the 2019 international conference of the European Rural History Organisation. Held Sept. 10-13 in Paris at the EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences), the conference served as a major intellectual and academic […]

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November 4, 2019 at 9:25 amResearch

Schoen Authors Chapter on Confederate and Union Lobbying Efforts in Europe

Dr. Brian Schoen. Photo courtesy of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission

Dr. Brian Schoen, Associate Professor and Assistant Chair of History at Ohio University, contributed a chapter to the recently published The Cambridge History of American Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2019). The chapter is titled “The Civil War in Europe,” and is based on his current book project. In it, Schoen […]

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November 2, 2019 at 5:02 pmResearch

Linguistics Students, Faculty Present Research on Second Language Acquisition

From left, An Nguyen, Mark Sakach, Rickey Larkin, Matt Kessler, and Tetiana Tytko

Ohio University Linguistics graduate students and faculty presented at the 2019 Second Language Research Forum at Michigan State University. The coordinator of this year’s SLRF conference was Matt Kessler, an Ohio University alumnus (’13 Master in Applied Lingustics and ’10 B.A, in English). Kessler is a Ph.D. student in the […]

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November 1, 2019 at 4:28 pmResearch

Hembree Publication Investigates Centipede Behavior in Modern and Ancient Ecosystems

Cover image of the PALAIOS issue showing the burrowing activity and resulting structures of centipedes in the experimental study.

Dr. Daniel Hembree, Professor of Geological Sciences at Ohio University, recently published “Burrows and ichnofabric produced by centipedes: modern and ancient examples” in the journal PALAIOS, published by the Society for Sedimentary Geology. Images from his study were featured on the issue’s cover. The paper details Hembree’s investigation of the […]

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November 1, 2019 at 10:18 amResearch

Ganeshan Presents at 2019 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

Dr. Ashwini Ganeshan at the 2019 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

Dr. Ashwini Ganeshan, Assistant Professor of Spanish in Modern Languages at Ohio University, presented a pragmatics research paper at the 2019 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium in El Paso, Texas, Oct. 24–26. The paper titled “Las funciones del marcador discursivo uruguayo tá: una primera aproximación pragmática” (“The functions of the Uruguayan discourse […]

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October 31, 2019 at 3:46 pmResearch

Bythell Group Awarded NIH RO1 grant on ‘Universal Metabolite Tagging’

Dr.  Benjamin Bythell

Understanding how the human body processes and metabolizes nutrients is critical to developing new paradigms and treatments for many diseases including diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and digestive disorders. The current state-of-the-art mass spectrometric technologies for analyzing metabolism generate large data sets which unfortunately can contain misleading information. Many of the […]

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October 29, 2019 at 11:15 amResearch

Fulbright Scholar Alajerami Speaks on New Glass Material for Radiation Protection

Yasser Alajerami from Al-Azhar University-Gaza is a Fulbright Scholar at Ohio University (2019-20).

From Ohio University News By Ling Xin NQPI Editorial Intern Fulbright Scholar Dr. Yasser Alajerami from Al-Azhar University-Gaza discussed his latest research on a new type of glass material that could be used as a protective shielding at radiation facilities. Alajerami is a Fulbright Scholar at Ohio University for 2019-20. […]

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October 28, 2019 at 8:05 amNews Research