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Applications for the College of Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Research Fund are due Nov. 1, 2018. The fund supports graduate students in their research endeavors by providing 20 grants of $1,000 annually (10 in a fall cycle, 10 in a spring cycle) based upon a competitive proposal process. Awards […]

Dr. Liang Tao, Associate Professor of Linguistics, recently delivered two lectures in Beijing, China—a conference presentation and a one-day lecture. Tao’s invitation to speak at the seminar is acknowledgement of the major contribution she has made to the field of usage-based linguistic studies, and a recognition of the role that […]

Ohio University alum Dr. Nicholas Tomeo and Dr. David Rosenthal authored an article on “Photorespiration differs among Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes and is correlated with photosynthesis” in the Journal of Experimental Botany. Tomeo earned a Ph.D. in Plant Biology in 2017. Rosenthal is Assistant Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology at […]

Dr. David Drabold, Distinguished Professor of Physics & Astronomy, is an invited speaker at the 9th International Petra School of Physics on “Nano Physics: Fundamentals and Applications” in Amman, Jordan in October. Drabold will lecture on “Disorder on the nanoscale: ab initio simulations of amorphous materials” and “Electrons and phonons […]

An “Increasing Your Grants Intelligence” workshop is open to Ohio University faculty on Tuesday, Nov. 6, from 9 to 11 a.m. in Baker 242. The workshop, designed to enhance faculty grant submissions and funding success, includes brief presentations by Dr. Joseph Shields, Interim Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, […]

Dr. Ashwini Ganeshan, Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Modern Languages Department, published an article titled “Examining agentivity in Spanish reverse-psych verbs” on the lexical semantics of Spanish psychological verbs in the journal Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (2018). Abstract: In Spanish reverse-psychological verbs, the experiencer argument can have accusative […]

English fiction Ph.D. candidate Michelle Pretorius presented her paper, “Postcolonial Crime Fiction: Dealing with Trauma in the Postcolonial State,” at a conference in the United Kingdom. Pretorius’s talk situated “Postcolonial crime fiction … as the new political novel.” The conference, titled “Captivating Criminality,” was sponsored by the International Crime Fiction […]