Archive for August, 2013

 March 12, 2008 By Michelle Davey Published in 1852, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by a staunch abolitionist who focused on the terrible nature of slavery. But in the following half-century, some of the many plays adapted from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel took a pro-slavery slant. Most depicted slaves in […]

Dr. Jay E. Ryu, Associate Professor of Political Science in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University, will present a paper at the Transit Planning and Finance Issues session of the 25th annual conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM) 25th Annual Conference Oct. 3-5 […]

Did you know that North America was part of an ancient continent called Laurentia that sat near the equator and had a tropical climate? Or that the forerunner to the Appalachian Mountains—called the Taconic Mountains—were forced up about 450 million years ago through tectonic plate movement? As the Taconic Mountains […]

  The Alpha Chi Sigma (AXΣ) chemistry fraternity will be giving chemistry demonstrations at the Ohio Valley Museum of Discovery in the Market on State from 11 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 31, as part of the museum’s current exhibit Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine, a six-banner traveling […]

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Dr. Lawrence Crum ‘63BS, ‘65MS, ‘67PhD remembers collecting stray golf balls along the Hocking River to help support himself and his young family. An Ohio University physics graduate student under Professor Emeritus Burt Stumpf’s tutelage in the late 1960s, Crum was on his way […]

Dr. Morgan Vis and Dr. Mark Lucas and others from Physics and Plant Biology will help the Ohio Valley Museum of Discovery exhibit Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine go out with a bang on Sept. 7 with some carnivorous plants and an exploration of gravity and flight. Sept. […]

By Helen Cothrel ’15 Honors Tutorial College and Physics Major, Ohio University Experimental physics has proven to be a fickle beast, but perseverance in the face of its vicissitudes is rewarding. In the lab this summer, first I had to master the tools, but then I learned the joy of […]