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By Peter Jahl Geological Sciences graduate student This summer, I ended up adding new sections to my exoplanetary models in order to represent more realistic components of a planet’s interior. I added a layer of a mineral called “post-perovskite,” which is a high-pressure phase of perovskite found near the core-mantle boundary, […]

Political Science graduate student Kwaku Opoku Dankwah co-authored an article on “Mixed fragmented migrations of Iraqis and challenges to Iraqi refugee integration: the Jordanian experience” in the Middle Eastern Studies journal. Upon completing high school in St. John’s Grammar (Accra-Ghana), Dankwah enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Political Science Major […]

Dr. Daniel Torres, Spanish Professor in Modern Languages, a founding member of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Poetry and a past board member, returned as a presenter to the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) during the XIII Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. Torres presented “Finezas […]

Dr. Alycia L. Stigall, Professor of Geological Sciences at Ohio University, was awarded the Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG) Professional Excellence Award in the academia and research category at the Geological Society of America Meeting in Denver on Oct. 23. This award is reserved for women who, throughout their careers, […]

In June 2017, a group of historians launched an initiative called the Global Urban History Project. The initiative seeks to “merge, expand, and formalize connections between scholars who share an interest in the field of global urban history.” Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, is a […]

Ohio University alum Ian Klein, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, is improving knowledge about avoiding injuries and maximizing performance in athletes and physical activity individuals. Klein research on the world’s first outdoor elliptical bicycle (elliptigo.com) is “designed to elicit running-similar physiological adaptations while reducing the impact forces that commonly […]

Ali Khaledi Nasab, graduate student in Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University, was invited to give a colloquium talk on Oct. 3 at the Department of Physics at the College of Wooster. His talk was on “Emergent stochastic oscillations and signal detection in tree networks of excitable elements.” Nasab’s adviser is Dr. […]