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Spiker Co-Authors Book on Alien Tort Claims Act

Dr. Kevin R. Spiker

Dr. Kevin R. Spiker, associate professor of political science at Ohio University Eastern, and Dr. James B. Whisker, professor emeritus of political science at West Virginia University, co-authored a book, The Alien Tort Claims Act. This is the first in a series of peer-reviewed works that will examine numerous topics […]

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January 4, 2019 at 5:49 pmResearch

Forecasters May Be Looking in Wrong Place When Predicting Tornadoes, Houser’s Research Shows

Dr. Jana Houser with the University of Oklahoma’s Rapid-scan, X-band, polarimetric mobile radar (RaXPol).

Research Demonstrates Existing Hypothesis of Top-Down Tornado Formation Is Incorrect From Compass Weather forecasters may be looking in the wrong place when working to issue tornado warnings, new research led by Ohio University’s Dr. Jana Houser has demonstrated. Historically, there have been a wide number of conflicting theories about how […]

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January 4, 2019 at 3:48 pmResearch

Geologists Visit the Earth’s Mantle via Kimberlites from Kentucky

HTC Geological Sciences student Thomas Johns holds samples of kimberlite collected in Elliott County, Ky., which contain pieces of the Earth's mantle.

A small group of Ohio University students under the direction of Dr. Keith Milam, Associate Professor of Geological Sciences, visited eastern Kentucky in search of samples from the Earth’s mantle in October. As a part of Thomas Johns‘ Honors Tutorial College geology tutorial project, Johns, Milam, and graduate student Logan […]

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January 4, 2019 at 11:59 amIn Class News Research

Workshop and Publication Successes from Fiction Students

Hillary Foreman

Ohio University alum Madeline ffitch recently gave a reading at Reed College in Oregon, in addition to teaching a prose writing workshop at Stuart’s Opera House. She will also teach a course titled “Don’t Kill Your Darlings Yet: The Bold Art of Revision” at Hugo House in Seattle in spring […]

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December 29, 2018 at 9:45 pmAlumni Research

Rosen and Thankachan Present on ‘BYOD in Indian Classrooms’

A teacher using his phone in class. Photo by Matt Rosen.

By Richard Morris, ’20 Dr. Matthew Rosen and Dr. Briju Thankachan presented  “Informal Practices and Innovations in Teaching and Learning: BYOD in Indian Classrooms” at the 2018 Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention in Kansas City, Mo. Rosen, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University, and Thankachan, Director of […]

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December 21, 2018 at 2:35 pmResearch

Johnson Lab Part of Grant to Study Bat and Song Bird Migration

The federally threatened northern myotis (Myotis septentrionalis), one of the species to be studied over the next several years.

Dr. Joseph Johnson and a team of researchers from universities, state agencies, and non-governmental organizations in the eastern United States have been awarded a federal grant to expand the Motus Wildlife Tracking System throughout the region. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University. Johnson’s lab will be […]

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December 11, 2018 at 12:23 pmResearch

Physicists Uncover Geometric Correlations in Self-Grown Graphene Nanoribbons

Dawei Zhai and Nancy Sandler

Two Ohio University physicists who were part of an international collaboration reported results of a study on self-grown graphene nanoribbons in the paper, “Linking interlayer twist angle to geometrical parameters of self-assembled folded graphene structures,” published recently in 2D Materials, a journal of the Institute of Physics. The work proposes […]

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December 10, 2018 at 4:54 pmResearch