Archive for January, 2015

Evans Named to Belgium Foundation Review Panel

Dr. Steven Evans

Dr. Steven Evans, Professor of Psychology at Ohio University, was invited to serve on a review panel for the Flanders Research Foundation (FWO) to review grants in May and September each year. The meetings are held at the organization’s headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. The FWO is part of the European […]

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January 7, 2015 at 9:26 amNews

Grad Student Mixon Presents on Teacher Application of Behavioral Principles

Psychology graduate student Clifton Mixon a poster on “Development and Validation of  Measure of Teacher’s Knowledge and Application of Behavioral Principles to the Classroom Setting” at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies annual convention Nov. 20-23 in Philadelphia. His co-authors were graduate students Theresa Egan and Anne Dawson, J. […]

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January 6, 2015 at 1:07 pmResearch

New York Post Editorial Quotes Vedder

Dr. Richard Vedder

A Jan. 3 New York Post editorial on “Overpaying for College” quotes Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University. If millennials today think transitioning out of their parents’ basements and into adulthood is difficult, wait until they […]

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January 6, 2015 at 11:16 amFaculty in the News In the News

Political Science Alum Named Butler County United Way Interim Director

Ohio University alum Kierston Hobaugh ’03 has been named director of the United Way of Butler County, reports the Pittsburgh Tribune. Hobaugh earned a degree in Political Science Pre-Law from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. Reporter Rick Wills notes that Hobaugh “steps into the job as […]

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January 6, 2015 at 10:51 amAlumni Alumni in the News In the News

Sarr Publishes Article on ‘Land, Power, And Dependency along the Gambia River’

Dr. Assan Sarr

Dr. Assan Sarr, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, published “Land, Power, And Dependency along the Gambia River, Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries” in December 2014 in African Studies Review. Abstract: The role of power over people and over land is an important issue in West Africa, with […]

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January 5, 2015 at 2:56 pmResearch

Ingram & Schoen Co-Edit Book With New Perspective on American Revolution

Ingram & Schoen Co-Edit Book With New Perspective on American Revolution

Dr. Robert C. Ingram and Dr. Brian Schoen, both associate professors of History at Ohio University, co-edited Between Sovereignty and Anarchy: the Politics of Violence in the American Revolutionary Era, due out in March 2015. Additional co-editors were Patrick Griffin and Peter S. Onuf. the book was the byproduct of […]

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January 5, 2015 at 1:35 pmResearch

Ingram Uses Fellowship in England To Study Religion & Enlightenment

Dr. Robert G. Ingram, Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, was awarded a Durham International Senior Research Fellowship at Durham University in England to study religion and the Enlightenment in spring 2014. At Durham, Ingram was an affiliate of the Institute for Advanced Study. Support for his fellowship was […]

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January 5, 2015 at 12:58 pmResearch