Archive for January, 2014

Ohio University poetry alum Becca J.R. Lachman ’07MA received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2014. In addition, the anthology that she edited, A Ritual to Read Together: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford, was published by Woodley Press and will have its official launch at Powell’s bookstore […]

The Daily Register reports that Dr. Ronald Stephens, Associate Professor of African American Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University, was the guest speaker at the Paint Creek Regular Baptist Church in Gallipolis on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Stephens, an associate professor of African American Studies at Ohio University, […]

The Dayton Daily News reports that an Ohio University alum who studied Journalism and Political Science “is seeing his name added to a law firm’s name.” Law firm Gordon & Rees is adding Southern California partner Michael “Miles” Scully to the firm’s name. Scully was born and raised in Dayton’s […]

WOUB quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences, in a story following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union pitch for a nearly 40 percent increase to the national minimum wage. “Economist of all stripes […]

The Mathematics Colloquium series presents Professor Alexander Nepomnyashchy (Technion, Israel) on the Dynamics of Liquid Membranes on Friday Jan. 31, at 4:10 p.m. in Morton 318. Abstract: It is known that vesicles formed by lipid bilayer membranes, which are permeable for water and small molecules but impermeable for large molecules, can […]

The Environmental and Plant Biology Colloquium series presents Dr. Zhihua Hua on Decoding Hundreds of F-box Genes in Plants: from Omics Data to Molecular Mechanisms on Friday, Jan. 31, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter Hall 104. Hua is Assistant Scientist and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratory of Genetics, School of Medicine […]

Gravity. Actors Sandra Bullock and George Clooney provided a theatrical look at how humans might experience the lack of gravity in space. But what about plants? Humans have touched the moon and sequenced the human genome. But answers to how plants respond to gravity are just now being unlocked—by students […]