Archive for May, 2015

Summer II | Want to Know if You Have Neanderthal DNA?

Summer II | Want to Know if You Have Neanderthal DNA?

The Sociology & Anthropology Department at Ohio University is offering a Summer Session II course that fills general education Tier II Natural Sciences (2NS). ANTH 2010 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (2NS) Have you ever wondered where we come from? About what makes us different from all other animals? In Anthropology 2010 (Introduction […]

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May 28, 2015 at 10:22 amNews

Summer II | Women in Chinese Literature, Psycholinguistics

Summer II | Women in Chinese Literature, Psycholinguistics

The Linguistics Department at Ohio University is offering two Summer Session II courses: would like to add another Tier II course (Cross-cultural Perspectives) that I’m going to offer in the 2nd summer session: ILL 389 / 589  Women in Chinese Literature (2CP) This course, which fills the general education Tier II […]

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May 28, 2015 at 10:06 amNews

McCrary Reviews Sarah Manguso’s ‘Ongoingness: The End of a Diary’

Micah McCrary

Creative Writing graduate student Micah McCrary wrote “Review of Sarah Manguso’s Ongoingness: The End of a Diary” in Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog. McCrary is a doctoral student in the Creative Writing program at Ohio University. I tried to keep my first diary during junior high, a diary which I began under […]

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May 28, 2015 at 9:53 amIn the News Students in the News

Virginia Tech Reports on Crockett Antarctica Expedition

Dr. Lisa Crockett

Dr. Lisa Crockett, Professor of Biological Sciences, and member faculty of the Molecular and Cellular Biology  program, is mentioned in a Virginia Tech story on “Research team heads to Antarctic to get icy insight into how brain adapts to temperature change.” At the southernmost extremes of the planet lives a […]

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May 28, 2015 at 9:14 amFaculty in the News In the News

Summer II | 3 African American Studies Courses Online

Summer II | 3 African American Studies Courses Online

Plenty of Summer Session II courses are ready and waiting for students at Ohio University. See Summer in Athens information. African American Studies is offering three second session online summer courses: AAS 1010 African American History from 1526-1875 (2SS) This online course examines economic, demographic, social, cultural and political topics […]

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May 27, 2015 at 7:38 pmNews

MCB Students Take Top Prizes at 2015 EXPO

Ashley Patton and Debbie Walter at the expo.

Molecular and Cellular Biology students took several top science prizes at the 2015 Ohio University Student Research & Creative Activity EXPO, held at the Convocation Center on April 9. The expo featured more than 800 student participants. Ashley Patton, 1st place (Diabetes Institute 2), second place (Biological Sciences G1) for […]

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May 27, 2015 at 6:36 pmNews

Abu-Rish Shows Different Side to History of Newly Independent Lebanon

Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish

The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS) interviewed Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, about the role of “the state, or lack thereof,” in the contemporary history of Lebanon—looking back to the first 15 years after independence from France in 1943, a period that predates the country’s […]

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May 27, 2015 at 6:03 pmFaculty in the News In the News Research