Archive for May, 2014

Gillespie Publishes Chapter on ‘Smiling Faces: Chameleon Street, Racial Passing/Performativity, and Film Blackness’

Gillespie Publishes Chapter on ‘Smiling Faces: Chameleon Street, Racial Passing/Performativity, and Film Blackness’

Dr. Michael B. Gillespie, Assistant Professor in African American Studies, published “Smiling Faces: Chameleon Street, Racial Passing/Performativity, and Film Blackness” in Passing Interest: Racial Passing in U.S. Fiction, Memoirs, Television, and Film, 1990-2010. Gillespie’s essay examines Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s Chameleon Street (1990) and the ways that the film’s story of a black “Great […]

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May 20, 2014 at 1:29 pmResearch

Gillespie Publishes Conversation with OHIO Alum Kevin Jerome Everson

Dr. Michael B. Gillespie, Assistant Professor in African American Studies, published an article on “2 Nigs United 4 West Compton: A Conversation with Kevin Jerome Everson” in Liquid Blackness in April 2014. Excerpts: Kevin Jerome Everson’s work represents a distinct processing of materials, craft, and blackness. While he has worked […]

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May 20, 2014 at 1:19 pmAlumni Research

WIPO Publishes Three Patents Involving Ohio University Chemists

Dr. Hao Chen

The World Intellectual Property Organization published three patents involving Ohio University Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty. ‘Online Monitoring of Fuel Cell Reactions by Desorption Electrospray Mass Spectrometry’ WIPO published a patent of Ohio University for “Online Monitoring of Fuel Cell Reactions by Desorption Electrospray Mass Spectrometry.” Publication No. WO/2014/074699 was published on […]

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May 19, 2014 at 10:39 pmNews Research

Vinton Daily: OPIE Offers Go International; Deadline June 18

Ohio University and the Ohio Program of Intensive English (OPIE) will again to offer the “Go International” program for students in grades 9-11 this summer, reports the Vinton Daily. Students attending will have the option to live in an OU dorm with Japanese students, learn basic Japanese and cross-cultural communication […]

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May 19, 2014 at 9:23 pmIn the News

Linguistics Alum Earns International Reading Association Award

Linguistics Alum Earns International Reading Association Award

Ohio University alum Dr. Kouider Mokhtari ’84M, ’87PhD received the 2014 John C. Manning Public School Service Award from the International Reading Association, announced Dr. Ross Sherman, University of Texas at Tyler College of Education and Psychology Dean, in a news release. Mokhtari holds a Ph.D. in applied linguistics, cognitive […]

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May 19, 2014 at 9:11 pmAlumni Alumni in the News In the News

Miner on For Your Ears Only: Both Russia and China Think America is Past its Prime

To consider the long and contentious connections of Crimea, Ukraine and Russia and the dangers for them and the wider world going forward, For Your Ears Only was joined by Dr. Steven Miner, Director of Ohio University’s Contemporary History Institute and an expert on Russian Soviet and Eastern European history. […]

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May 19, 2014 at 5:30 pmFaculty in the News In the News

Lorain Early College High School Grad To Study Pre-Physical Therapy at Ohio

The Morning Journal quotes a Lorain County Community College graduate—who earned his high school diploma and an associate’s degree at the same time—about his plans to study Pre-Physical Therapy at Ohio University. A news release stated LCCC offers Early College High School as an opportunity for students who are entering […]

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May 19, 2014 at 4:32 pmIn the News Students in the News