Archive for July, 2017

By Kees Vande Stadt ’19 Junior in Geography and Wealth and Poverty Certificate Intern with Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty Saint Joseph’s Carpenter Society is a nonprofit organization based out of East Camden, NJ, a place where affordable housing and poverty have been and still are major issues. Saint […]

Dr. Joseph Gingerich, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, co-authored a journal article PLOS ONE titled “Tracing social interactions in Pleistocene North America via 3D model analysis of stone tool asymmetry.” Gingerich and the research team used 3D imaging and morphometric analysis to study subtle changes in how early inhabitants in North […]

The Mathematics Department welcomes Dr. Marcel Bischoff, who starts as Assistant Professor this fall. His NSF-funded research involves finding models for symmetries in quantum field theory, which combines the principles of quantum physics and the theory of special relativity, with potential application for quantum computing. Most recently, he was a […]

Ohio University Mathematics graduate student Rebin Muhammad contributed a paper to a session on  “My Favorite Math Circle Problem” at MathFest 2017, held July 26-29 in Chicago. Muhammad’s problem was “Islamic Geometric Pattern.” Abstract: An Islamic geometric pattern (IGP) is a 2D wallpaper that is created by using only a compass […]

Ohio University alum Dr. Steve Taaffe discussed “Marshall & His Generals” as part of the George C. Marshall Foundation’s Marshall Legacy Series on the World Wars. Taaffe earned a Ph.D. in History and a Certificate in Contemporary History in 1995 from the College of Arts & Sciences, as well as […]

By Ingo Trauschweizer Director of the Contemporary History Institute This summer, I took on the directorship of the Contemporary History Institute, fueled by the desire to build further upon the tradition of excellent scholarship, fellowship, training, and education that CHI has offered to the university and the wider community since […]

Dr. Robert Klein, Associate Professor of Mathematics, was elected to the Mathematical Association of America Congress as one of six “representatives at large,” representing Teacher Education for a three-year term. Klein is serving as Interim Associate Dean at Ohio University Lancaster. “The Mathematical Association of America is the largest professional […]