Archive for September, 2015

Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy, Why is Moore’s New Book So Fun?

Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy, Why is Moore’s New Book So Fun?

Author Dinty W. Moore, Professor of English at Ohio University, is having a lot of fun with his new book, Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy: Advice and Confessions on Writing, Love, and Cannibals. From drawing on napkins at Casa Nueva to explaining em dashes, Moore’s book, he writes on the […]

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September 4, 2015 at 10:18 amResearch

Vines & Wrage Translate ‘It All Began in Nuremberg’

Vines & Wrage Translate ‘It All Began in Nuremberg’

Lois Vines, Professor of French and Marie-Claire Wrage, Professor Emerita of French in the Department of Modern Languages at Ohio University, translated translated from French It All Began in Nuremberg, Between History and Memory by Rita Thalmann (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015). It All Began in Nuremberg is […]

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September 3, 2015 at 7:20 pmResearch

Gulisashvili Edits ‘Large Deviations and Asymptotic Methods in Finance ’

Dr. Archil Gulisashvili, Professor of Mathematics, is a co-editor of the book  “Large Deviations and Asymptotic Methods in Finance,” published in 2015 by Springer. Topics covered in this volume (large deviations, differential geometry, asymptotic expansions, central limit theorems) give a full picture of the current advances in the application of asymptotic methods in mathematical finance, […]

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September 3, 2015 at 6:50 pmResearch

NQPI Launches New Website

NQPI Launches New Website

Have you been redirected to a NQPI website that looks very different? No, your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. We’ve launched a new site! OUNQPI.org is a mobile friendly site that highlights current news and events. To learn more about recent discoveries at the nanoscale, browse the new site. […]

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September 3, 2015 at 2:30 pmNews

Career Corner | Sign Up to Get an Alumni Career Mentor

Jessie Carter

By Jessie Carter Assistant Director, Career & Leadership Development Center for the College of Arts & Sciences Secure a place in the inaugural Bobcat Career Mentor Program! The Bobcat Career Mentor Program is a brand new initiative designed to connect current College of Arts & Sciences students of all levels with […]

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September 3, 2015 at 1:26 pmNews

Kantrowitz Book: ‘Old Whiskey and Young Women’

Kantrowitz Book: ‘Old Whiskey and Young Women’

Old Whiskey and Young Women: American True Crime: Tales of Murder, Sex and Scandal, a book by Ohio University alumni R. Marc Kantrowitz, comes out in October. Kantrowitz, Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, is serving as a Glidden Visiting Professor at Ohio University in Fall 2015. Kantrowitz earned […]

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September 3, 2015 at 1:12 pmResearch

Jarvis is Executive Director of Language Learning

Dr. Scott Jarvis, Professor of Linguistics, is the Executive Director of the journal Language Learning. Language Learning is a scientific journal dedicated to the understanding of language learning broadly defined. It publishes research articles that systematically apply methods of inquiry from disciplines including psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, educational inquiry, neuroscience, ethnography, […]

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September 3, 2015 at 12:48 pmResearch