Archive for November, 2014

Krzic Gets Staff Award for Excellence in Global Engagement

Krzic Gets Staff Award for Excellence in Global Engagement

The Staff Award for Excellence in Global Engagement was presented to Dr. Gerard Krzic, Director of the Ohio Program of Intensive English (OPIE) in the Linguistics Department at Ohio University. The award was presented Nov. 20 at Ohio University International Education Week (IEW) festivities. The Awards for Excellence in Global […]

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November 25, 2014 at 11:36 amNews

Singh Gets Faculty Award for Excellence in Global Engagement

Singh Gets Faculty Award for Excellence in Global Engagement

Dr. Amritjit Singh, Langston Hughes Professor of English, received the Award for Excellence in Global Engagement on Nov. 20. The award was presented on the last evening of the Ohio University International Education Week festivities. The Awards for Excellence in Global Engagement ceremony is an annual event that recognizes three […]

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November 25, 2014 at 11:16 amNews

Singh Invited to South Asian American Digital Archive Academic Council

Dr. Amrit Singh

Dr. Amritjit Singh, the Langston Hughes Professor of English at Ohio University, has been invited to join the inaugural South Asian American Digital Archive Academic Council, a community of scholars committed to furthering the academic study of South Asians in the United States through supporting the work of the South […]

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November 25, 2014 at 11:09 amNews

Can You Solve the Navajo Sheep Problem?

Can You Solve the Navajo Sheep Problem?

Take a peek into the Navajo Nation Math Circle with a New York Times “Numberplay” problem, prompts Dr. Robert Klein. The number problem was provided by Kansas State University math professor Dave Auckly, who along with Klein is a co-director on the Navajo project. Born in Albuquerque, NM, Klein returned home […]

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November 25, 2014 at 9:41 amNews

Shorey Gets Award for Research on Alcohol, Marijuana Use and Dating Violence

Dr. Ryan Shorey

Dr. Ryan Shorey, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Ohio University, received the Deborah L. Rhatigan Early Career Award for Excellence in Violence Research from the Child Maltreatment and Interpersonal Violence Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies held its […]

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November 24, 2014 at 5:33 pmNews

Math Senior Seminar: Solutions & Their Bounds for the Traveling Salesman Problem, Nov. 24

Andy Ryan, a student in MATH 4994 Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar, gives his final oral presentation on Monday, Nov. 24, at 11:50 a.m. in Morton Hall 318. His talk is on “Solutions and Their Bounds for The Traveling Salesman Problem.” Abstract: The Traveling Salesman Problem is a well-known problem in mathematics, […]

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November 24, 2014 at 5:15 pmEvents

Schoen Delivers Paper at Rothermere American Institute at Oxford

Dr. Brian Schoen. Photo courtesy of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission

Dr. Brian Schoen delivered a paper to about 49 students and faculty at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford on Oct. 28. Schoen, Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, is the Fulbright-sponsored Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at University College Dublin in Ireland for […]

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November 24, 2014 at 1:44 pmResearch