Archive for October, 2013

Sasquatch DNA: A Red-Haired Sister to Humans?

Sasquatch DNA: A Red-Haired Sister to Humans?

DNA evidence has gotten felons off death row. Could it be about to get Sasquatch onto the list of newly discovered species? Dr. Scott Moody has been teaching and researching various topics of biology at Ohio University for 35 years. For the last 15 years or so, when he took […]

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October 23, 2013 at 9:13 amNews

Chandavar and Hicks Present Photoproduction of Scalar Mesons at CLAS

Chandavar and Hicks Present Photoproduction of Scalar Mesons at CLAS

Physics and Astronomy Graduate Student Shloka Chandavar and Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, along with Dennis Weygand from the Jefferson Lab, present “Photoproduction of scalar mesons at CLAS” at the fall meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society on Oct. 25. Graduate […]

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October 22, 2013 at 11:13 amResearch

Kidder, Worsley Present on Early Triassic Hypertropical Climate

Ohio University faculty will make an impact with 23 presentations at the Geological Society of America’s 125th Anniversary Annual Meeting & Exposition Oct. 27–30 in Denver. Dr. David Kidder, Associate Professor of Geological Sciences, and retired faculty member Dr. Tom Worsley present on EARLY TRIASSIC HYPERTROPICAL CLIMATE:  LATITUDE, ELEVATION, AND […]

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October 22, 2013 at 9:20 amResearch

Biomedical Sciences Faculty Present at Geological Sciences Conference

Ohio University faculty will make an impact with 23 presentations at the Geological Society of America’s 125th Anniversary Annual Meeting & Exposition Oct. 27–30 in Denver. Pat O’Connor, Nancy Stevens, Eric Roberts, Joe Sertich, Eric Gorscak of the Department of Biomedical Sciences, present on UNCOVERING THE CRETACEOUS TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATE RECORD […]

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October 21, 2013 at 9:29 amResearch

Separating Fact from Fiction in Nanotechnology

Separating Fact from Fiction in Nanotechnology

From the Nanoscale & Quantum Phenomena Institute Don’t expect nanotechnology to produce tiny robots with artificial intelligence that devour cancer cells or ropes with Carbon nanotube strands that are strong enough to build a space elevator from Earth to the orbiting stations. These ideas are nothing but hype in the […]

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October 19, 2013 at 7:39 pmNews

Physics Open House: Beating Back Gravity, and More, Oct. 19

Hovercraft demonstration at Physics Open House.

Fun with liquid nitrogen? Beating back gravity? Sharks with lasers? It’s all there to explore at the Ohio University Department of Physics and Astronomy Open House on Saturday, Oct. 19, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Clippinger Laboratories on the Athens campus. “There are a lot of cool […]

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October 19, 2013 at 3:42 pmEvents

Post: Physics and Astronomy Open House Has Packed Line-up, Oct. 19

“The Ohio University Department of Physics and Astronomy 2013 Open House has a packed line-up filled with speakers, activities and events that faculty and staff say are sure to impress,” Post reporter Bianca Hillier reports. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. this Saturday, Oct. 19, […]

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October 19, 2013 at 7:49 amIn the News