Archive for October, 2013

“Meeting the needs of the present while safeguarding Earth’s life-support system, on which the welfare of current and future generations depends.” By Dr. Nancy Manring College of Arts & Sciences faculty are tackling the challenges of the 21st century by building interdisciplinary and team-taught courses around a new set of […]

Letters from Ireland Stephen J. Scanlan, Fulbright  Scholar National University of Ireland Galway Suitable for vegetarians. Oh, how I love to hear, or rather see, these words. And not just because I am a vegetarian and that it makes grocery purchases a bit easier. Rather, the words symbolize greater transparency […]

  Things often get ugly in the comments that follow political news, but research based on reader comments in Utah suggests that anti-immigrant sentiment is on the decline, says a Brigham Young University news release. Dr. Charlie V. Morgan, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, was a co-author on a […]

The Center for Law, Justice and Culture will open its new offices—and its new services—on the ground floor of Bentley Hall in January 2014. Now under construction, the new space will include a common room for students and faculty, as well as offices for a new Pre-Law Adviser. The adviser […]

Ohio University alum Kyle Uckert ’10, an Honors Tutorial College graduate who majored in Astrophysics, “is working on the development of instrumentation to help identify signs of life on bodies of the solar system,” reports the Silver City Sun News. Now a graduate student at New Mexico State University, Uckert […]

“Do you ever look up at the stars and think about how small our planet is and how insignificant humans are in the big picture?” writes Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, in an Oct. 27 Columbus Dispatch article. Maybe you think differently from me, but I find […]

Chair established by Doctors Ram and Sushila Gawande aims to increase knowledge, awareness of Indian culture, and collaboration between Ohio University and India By Matt Mackay From Compass The Athens community has been home for many years to Drs. Ram and Sushila Gawande. Ram, who passed away in August, 2011, […]