Archive for September, 2013

“Is Truth True? What Makes Human Beings Valuable?” Scott Klusendorf, of the Life Training Institute, will deliver a lecture Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 8 p.m. in Walter 145. A Q&A session follows at 9 p.m. Klusendorf’s lecture seeks to address some of the following questions: “Can one make a statement […]

The Food for Thought faculty speaker series kicks off on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 5 p.m. in Ellis 113 with Dr. Robert Frank, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, talking on “Eat, Drink, Taste, Smell: Cognitive and Perceptual Perspectives on Food Studies.” “In the space of three months, […]

Dr. Alexander O. Govorov, Ohio University Professor of Physics and Astronomy, gives an invited talk on Nanophotonics at the IEEE Photonics Conference in Bellevue, Wash., Sept. 8-12. His talk is on “Optically active hybrid nanostructures: Injection of hot plasmonic electrons, exciton-plasmon interaction, chirality and related applications.” “Hybrid nanostructure excited by […]

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Physics and Astronomy doctoral student Yinyun Li ’13PhD, current holder of the department’s Y.-C. Chang Graduate Fellowship, has accepted a post-doctoral position beginning this fall in Germany, at the Georg-August-University Gӧttingen. “Yinyun has an outstanding record of academic achievement in our Ph.D. program, with […]

Two mountain ranges on two continents. Facing many of the same 2st century issues. This September, four professors from Ohio University will travel to the Carpathians/Appalachians International Conference 2013 at  the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (PNU) in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. The journey to the Carpathians will take place from Sept. […]

Dr. Madappa Prakash, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, presented a Physics Division Colloquia Sept. 6 at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago. Prakash—who has a broad range of interests that include nuclear and particle physics, the physics of high energy heavy-ion collisions, and astrophysics—will discuss “Lessons from New Observations of Neutron […]

Two Ohio University physicists are presenting at the 22nd European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics in Krakow, Poland, Sept. 9-13. The professors are from the Department of Physics and Astronomy in College of Arts & Sciences. Both are also members of the Ohio University Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics. […]