Archive for November, 2013

The Condensed Matter & Surface Sciences Colloquium series presents Dr. Jie Shan of Case Western Reserve University on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Shan, Associate Professor of Physics at Case Western, will discuss “Atomically thin MoS2 crystals—a new two-dimensional semiconductor.” “The transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) represent […]

First in a Series on Macro-Evolution Darwin and his successors wrote the first chapters on evolution by looking at small changes in species over relatively short periods of time, usually described as natural selection. Scientists developed the Modern Synthesis to describe gradual evolution following the discovery of the DNA molecule, […]

Ohio University graduate student Amrita Basu won second place in the poster presentation competition at the second annual Appalachian Regional Cell Conference (ARCC) in Charleston, WV, in October. Her poster, co-authored with Dr. John Kopchick, was on “Quantitative Analysis of Gene Expression in the Brain of Transgenic bGH and Wild […]

More than 35 Ohio University student scientists attended the second annual Appalachian Regional Cell Conference (ARCC) in Charleston, WV, in October. The event, co-organized by graduate student Maria Muccioli of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, drew several dozen additional participants from West Virginia University, Marshall University and the University […]

At Rochdale College in Toronto, the students were in charge. It survived for only seven years, but it ended as a controversial symbol of the flower-child Sixties. Rochdale: The Runaway College, a social history by David G. Sharpe, Assistant Professor in the Department of English, has been issued as an […]

Parkersburg News and Sentinel reporter Jody Murphy captured the tale of Dr. Gifford Doxsee, a U.S. Army veteran and former Ohio University Professor of History. Doxsee spoke on Veterans Day at the Belpre Senior Center about his time as a POW in a German camp in the later days of […]

By Dr. Brian Schoen, Associate Professor of History on the dedication of the Milton Holland historical marker Throughout our nation’s history, we have debated the role of the federal government in creating or enhancing freedom and creating what we commonly refer to as an American Dream. Milton Holland’s life, his […]