Archive for April, 2014

By Jen Doyle from Ohio University Libraries When World War II history enthusiast and graduate student Seth Givens first became acquainted with OHIO Libraries’ Cornelius Ryan Collection as an undergraduate student, he felt awestruck. His excitement was understandable — he had just encountered about 21,000 primary sources that war correspondent-turned-author […]

The Voinovich Collections Fellowship is a competitive stipend program for two tenure-track faculty members who utilize the Voinovich Archival Collections website and associated digitized content in their classroom. The named faculty members will work with the Ohio University Libraries to choose documents from the physical Voinovich Archival Collections that will […]

Physics & Astronomy graduate student Mongi Dlamini was helping April 1 when “the crown jewel of the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility sparkled its way into a new era,” as Science Daily described it. That day will “forever remain engraved in my mind,” Dlamini says. The accelerator’s […]

By Dr. Brandon Kendhammer Excerpted from Washington Post blog Monday morning, a bomb exploded at a busy transit station in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, killing a reported 71 and wounding 124. While no one has yet taken official credit for the attack, all signs point to Boko Haram, a militant Islamist […]

“Scientists who study deep space and string theory usually don’t get that worked up over lunar eclipses,” writes Dean Narciso in the April 13 Columbus Dispatch. But at 2 a.m. on Tuesday, April 15, “Earth will block the sun’s light from reflecting off the moon, causing a total eclipse — […]

Dr. Todd Young, Professor of Mathematics at Ohio University, has been named Co-Editor-in-Chief of the research journal Dynamical Systems: An International Journal. Dynamical Systems is published by Taylor and Francis four times a year in print and electronic editions. The primary goal of Dynamical Systems (founded as Dynamics and Stability of Systems ) is […]

Almost all cancer cells are “addicted” to glucose, says scientist Xiao Chen, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry. They depend on glucose and other nutrients to fuel growth. But a new compound developed by biologist Chen and organic chemist Dr. Stephen Bergmeier, Professor and Chair of Chemistry & Biochemistry, is […]