Archive for February, 2016

By Collin Arocho The Senate of the 131st General Assembly of Ohio called last week for Ohio University’s Marvin White Chair and Distinguished Professor, Dr. Tadeusz Malinski, to be acknowledged for his research. The Ohio Congress was interested in Malinski’s research into nanomedicine after they received word of the professor’s […]

  Ohio University’s Dr. Elliot Abrams was selected to be a discussant at the 81st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology meeting in Orlando in April. Following eight speakers on various topics ranging from Mycenaean State Formation (presented by Rodney Fitzsimmons) to an energetics approach to Celtic community […]

By Cindy Prescott The next Rural Women’s Studies Association triennial conference is May 17-19, 2018, at Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio, USA. On the RWSA blog, Cindy Prescott suggested several ways that you can help raise the visibility of rural women’s studies and the RWSA.  Today we’d like to highlight […]

By Imants Jaunarajs Assistant Dean of Students for the Career & Leadership Development Center The Career and Leadership Development Center features job and internship postings for Ohio University students—available through Bobcat CareerLink. Bobcat CareerLink has more than 6,600 businesses and organizations looking to hire Ohio University students. Find out how […]

For the first time, scientists have directly detected gravitational waves. They accomplished this using an extremely sensitive device called the Laser Interferometry Gravitational ¬wave Detector, or LIGO, which can measure tiny ripples in the fabric of space¬time, writes Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University, in […]

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Nine undergraduates and four graduate students enrolled in the Advanced Observational Astrophysics lab class set out with their professors to the MDM Observatory near Kitt Peak, a 6,316-foot (1,925 meters) mountain in southern Arizona last fall. Looking up into the night sky can be […]

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Dr. David Drabold, Ohio University Distinguished Professor of Physics & Astronomy, and two researchers with ties to OHIO have been awarded a three-year $520,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study and develop new approaches for jointly using experimental and theoretical information for […]