Archive for April, 2014

Ohio University alum Tim Pritchard ’10 will be a featured presenter at the May 4 Herb Faire, hosted by the Herb Society of the Preble County (OH) Historical Society. He earned a B.S. in Environmental Biology from the Department of Environmental and Plant Biology in the College of Arts & […]

Dr. Tadeusz Malinski, Marvin White Chair and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was quoted in a column on “FDA suppresses concerns about Indian generics” by Roger Bate at the American Enterprise Institute. “Are American patients taking unsafe medicines from Asia? Even posing that question is leading to unusually public […]

The Condensed Matter & Surface Sciences Colloquium series presents Dr. Nikolas Podraza on “Utilizing Optical Characterization for Materials and Device Development” on Thursday, April 10, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter Lecture Hall 245. Podraza is Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Toledo. “Current research interests include the physical […]

The Making and Breaking the Law theme launches in Fall 2014 with the new interdisciplinary seminar course CAS 2500: Breaking the Law. This innovative first-year seminar course involves four faculty members from Anthropology, History, Political Science, and Criminology, each teaching a seminar course section on Tuesday (30 students) and all […]

The Department of English announces for Fall 2014 a new course, ENG 3570: Law and Literature, of interest to students pursuing the Law, Justice, and Culture certificate, Pre-Law students from any major, and students with general interest in literature and social justice. ENG 3570: Law and Literature TTh 10:30-11:50 a.m. […]

Faculty and students from the Linguistics Department, Ohio Program of Intensive English, and English Language Improvement Program are presenting at the Ohio University CALL Conference on April 11. CALL is computer-assisted language learning. Dr. Greg Kessler, Director of the Language Resource Center in the College of Arts & Sciences and […]

Sometime this spring, a gas cloud called G2 will come perilously close to a black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Ohio University Professor of Physics, talks about the “Front-row Seat for a Black-Hole Feeding Frenzy” in his Columbus Dispatch column. “It is a well-established […]