Archive for December, 2013

Several of the inaugural class of Margaret Boyd Scholars are students in the College of Arts & Sciences. Stacey Shariffa Mbelle ’17, majoring in pre-professional Biological Sciences Erin Webb ’17, majoring in pre-professional Biological Sciences Gracie Keyes Jessany Middleton ’16, studying in the College of Arts & Sciences Leah Wilson. […]

By Dr. Zakes Mda Professor of Creative Writing From the New York Times, Dec. 6 I remember Nelson Mandela. No, not the universally adored elder statesman who successfully resisted the megalomania that comes with deification, and who died Thursday at age 95, but the young lawyer who used to sit […]

“Reports are sketchy about its survival,” wrote Dr. Kenneth Hicks about Comet ISON’s close encounter with the sun. Hicks is Professor of Physics and Astronomy and wrote a Dec. 1 Columbus Dispatch article. “Some early news reports say it didn’t survive the sun’s heat or its strong gravity field. Others […]

An Ohio Public Radio show included comments by Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences. Listen to the report by Karen Kasler on “Effectiveness of Proposed Balanced Budget Amendment Unclear.” “We are […]

Dr. Scott Carnicom ’95, an Ohio University College of Arts & Science alum who majored in Psychology, has been named the founding dean of the College of Natural, Behavioral and Health Sciences at Lock Haven University, reports Gant Daily. Carnicom graduated summa cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta […]

The Condensed Matter & Surface Sciences Colloquium series presents Alex Levchenko of Michigan State University on Thursday, Dec. 5, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Levchenko, Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Michigan State, will address “Quantum rectification in mesoscopic circuits: point contacts, 2DEG bi-layers, Giaever transformers.” “We consider […]

“Like compulsive Las Vegas gamblers, many university presidents like to make big bets hoping for large payoffs. And like most gamblers, they usually lose,” writes Dr. Richard Vedder in a Dec. 2 Fiscal Times column. Vedder is Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of […]