Archive for March, 2014

By George Mauzy From Compass “We’re accustomed to seeing the coordination of military operations and national policy in the First World War in terms of civil-military relations,” said author and historian Sir Hew Strachan as he kicked off the 2014 Baker Peace Conference. In his keynote speech, “Military Operations & […]

The Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies announced four  graduate fellowships for 2014-15. Vincent Farallo was awarded an OCEES Graduate Fellowship for Spring 2015 for his work on “Exploring below the undergrowth: the role of microhabitat in the evolutionary ecology of Plethodontid salamanders” under his adviser, Dr. Donald Miles, […]

The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Serge Nakhmanson of the University of Connecticut on “Computational Design of Multifunctional Complex-oxide Materials Across Length Scales” on Friday, March 21, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Nakhmanson, who describes himself as a “digital alchemist” is an Ohio University alum. He earned a Ph.D. […]

Ohio University alum Dr. Michelle H. Theus, a neuroscientist at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, says she hopes that a better understanding of how the brain restores blood flow to damaged tissue following a stroke will offer new treatment clues for a leading cause of […]

Ohio University alum Kristen Criswell is associate editor of Tire Review. “The 2009 graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, with a degree in magazine journalism and a minor in political science, brings a wealth of experience from assignments as digital media specialist at Little Rock […]

Dr. Dawn Bikowski, Director of the English Language Improvement Program at Ohio University, was a featured speaker at the Teacher Educator Conference 2014 put on by the British Council in Hyderabad, India, in February. It’s the largest teacher education conference in India. Bikowski spoke on “The Pedagogy of Collaboration: Teaching […]

The Condensed Matter & Surface Sciences Colloquium series presentsDr. Nina Markovic of  John Hopkins University on “Quantum Interference Noise in Graphene” on Thursday, March 20, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Abstract: Low frequency noise is a ubiquitous phenomenon that plagues electronic devices, but it is often difficult to determine […]