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‘Losers Dream On’ in Halliday’s New Book of Poems

Dr. Mark Halliday

Dr. Mark Halliday’s new book of poems, Losers Dream On, has recently been published with the University of Chicago Press. Halliday, Professor of English at Ohio University, says the poems in this new collection “keep finding tension—sometimes comic, sometimes pathetic, sometimes desperate—between the inevitability of losing in life and the […]

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March 14, 2018 at 2:55 pmResearch

Masson: Building Blocks Self-assemble into Polymers with Help of Pumpkin-shaped Molecule

The self-assembly into dynamic oligomers of Cucurbit[8]uril (CB[8]), a positive ditopic Ir(III) bis-terpyridine complex, and a negative ditopic Fe(II) bis-terpyridine complex flanked by four butyrate side chains.

Dr. Eric Masson and his research group recently showed that Cucurbit[8]uril (CB[8]), a molecule that resembles a hollow pumpkin, can be used to connect building blocks to one another in a well-defined sequence. Masson, the Roenigk Chair and Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio University, took inspiration from […]

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March 13, 2018 at 1:27 pmResearch

Masson Group Shows Pumpkin-shaped Molecules Catalyze Classic Reaction

Eric Masson studies pumpkin-shaped Cucurbituril molecules

The groups of Dr. Eric Masson and Dr. Oren Scherman, a collaborator from the University of Cambridge, UK, recently showed that Cucurbiturils, a family of molecules that have the shape of a hollow pumpkin, could be used as catalysts for a well-known reaction in organic chemistry. By encapsulating reagents, Cucurbiturils force the reacting partners […]

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March 13, 2018 at 1:06 pmResearch

Sandal Talks at Notre Dame on ‘Religious Leaders and Conflict Transformation: Northern Ireland and Beyond’

Dr. Nukhet Sandal. Photo by Ben Siegel

Dr. Nukhet Sandal, Associate Professor of Political Science, gives a talk on “Religious Leaders and Conflict Transformation: Northern Ireland and Beyond” on March 20 at University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Abstract: Religious dimension of contemporary conflicts and the rise of faith-based movements worldwide require policymakers […]

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March 12, 2018 at 8:57 amResearch

Stender Co-Authors Discovery of Two-Dimensional, Conductive Gallenene

Dr. Anthony Stender

Dr. Anthony Stender, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio University, is a co-author with scientists at Rice University and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, on the discovery of a method to make atomically flat gallium that shows promise for nanoscale electronics. “The Rice lab of materials scientist […]

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March 12, 2018 at 8:32 amResearch

15,000 Miles Later, Svoboda Contributing to Family Tree of Passionflowers

Harlan Svoboda

By MC Tilton, PACE Writer In search of preserved specimens of passionflowers, Harlan Svoboda traveled more than 15,000 miles last summer to herbaria in the United States and Mexico. Now he’s back in the lab at Ohio University using DNA to create the first phylogenetic tree of a complex group […]

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March 9, 2018 at 3:26 pmResearch

Analytical Cannabis Interviews Harrington about Chemical Fingerprinting of Cannabis

Dr. Peter de B. Harrington

Dr. Peter de B. Harrington, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, was quoted in an Analytical Cannabis article headlined “Chemotyping: Classifying cannabis strains by chemical composition.” An approach to optimizing the chemotyping of cannabis strains has been outlined by researchers at Ohio University and Chemistry Mapping Inc. Specifically, they evaluated the […]

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March 8, 2018 at 1:45 pmFaculty in the News In the News Research