Archive for August, 2016

Milam Gives Keynote on Serpent Mound Disturbance

Dr. Keith Milam

Dr. Keith Milam, Associate Professor of Geological Sciences, spoke at the Serpent Mound Park on Aug. 20 during the annual Archaeology Day, reports the People’s Defender. As one of the premiere examples of earthen artworks in North America  the 1,348 foot serpent has become a major attraction for those interested […]

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August 27, 2016 at 5:02 pmFaculty in the News In the News

Apply Now for 2017 Spring Break Study Abroad in Northern Ireland

Apply Now for 2017 Spring Break Study Abroad in Northern Ireland

Applications are now being accepted for the fifth annual OHIO spring break study abroad program on Human Rights, Law & Justice in Northern Ireland. For more information, contact Program Director Dr. Haley Duschinski, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture. Application information is online, […]

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August 27, 2016 at 10:52 amNews

Students Defending Students Now Accepting Applications for Student Advisor

Students Defending Students, whose logo is feature above, is an organization in which student volunteers advise others undergoing the process of Ohio University Community Standards.

For students interested in helping other Bobcats, Students Defending Students (SDS) is accepting applications for advisor positions from now until Sept. 16. SDS is a subsidiary of the OHIO Student Senate. This one-of-a-kind organization provides student advisors who assist other students going the the process of Community Standards. SDS Student Advisors […]

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August 26, 2016 at 7:45 pmNews

Schoen Contributes to Edited Volume on Transnational Significance of U.S. Civil War

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

Dr. Brian Schoen‘s “Southern Wealth and Global Profits: Cotton, Economic Culture, and the Coming of the Civil War” will appear in The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War, edited by Jörg Nagler, Don Doyle, and Marcus Graeser (Palgrave-Macmillan Press, 2017). Schoen is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University. The chapter examines […]

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August 26, 2016 at 7:08 amResearch

New Certificate Offered in Food and Society

Dr. Paul Patton harvests Chenopodium berlandieri at the Plant Biology Learning Gardens.

The Food Studies theme is proud to present the new Food and Society Certificate undergraduate program. The Food and Society Certificate represents a series of courses that challenges students to think critically about an aspect of their lives simultaneously deeply personal, public, and political. The certificate promotes an interdisciplinary understanding of how what’s […]

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August 25, 2016 at 1:19 pmNews

Chen Group Receives Merck Research Laboratories Technology Collaboration Award

Dr. Hao Chen

In August 2016, Merck Research Laboratories gave a Technology Collaboration Award to Dr. Qiuling Zheng, Meihong Hu and Dr. Hao Chen at Ohio University for their collaboration in developing desorption electrospray mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) analytical methodology to study the key stoichiometric and catalytic intermediates in support of mechanistic understanding of […]

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August 25, 2016 at 1:00 pmNews

History’s Maxwell Publishes Chapter on Founder of Fifth-Century Monastery Near Constantinople

Dr. Jaclyn Maxwell at Balikligol, Sanliurfa Province, in southeastern Turkey.

Dr. Jaclyn Maxwell, Associate Professor of History, published “Social Interactions in a Rural Monastery: Scholars, Peasants, and Monks in the Life of Hypatius“ during the 2016 summer. The scholarly work appeared as a chapter in Motions of Late Antiquity: Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society in Honor of Peter Brown, edited by Jamie Kreiner and Helmut  Reimitz […]

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August 25, 2016 at 7:16 amNews Research