Archive for March, 2018

DADD is accepting applications for a summer internship at its New York office, starting June 1 to Sept. 10, 2018. The internship involves assisting with organizing the 18th Annual GAIN Conference of German Researchers – the largest forum for German Ph.D. students, postdocs, and professors working in North America. A […]

 Geography Professor Emeritus Ted Bernard has a novel coming out this spring—a story set in a fictitious college town in southern Ohio not unlike Athens. Student protests and their enmeshment in university, statewide, and international energy politics head toward calamity during a precarious stage of planetary history known as […]

Dr. Eric Masson and his research group recently showed that Cucurbit[8]uril (CB[8]), a molecule that resembles a hollow pumpkin, can be used to connect building blocks to one another in a well-defined sequence. Masson, the Roenigk Chair and Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio University, took inspiration from […]

The groups of Dr. Eric Masson and Dr. Oren Scherman, a collaborator from the University of Cambridge, UK, recently showed that Cucurbiturils, a family of molecules that have the shape of a hollow pumpkin, could be used as catalysts for a well-known reaction in organic chemistry. By encapsulating reagents, Cucurbiturils force the reacting partners […]

  All Smiles at the Rollerbowl Lanes Welcome to Week 10 of The OPIE Zone Newsletter.  Here are the important events happening during the tenth week of the semester. We hope you’ll join us for some of them. International Conversation Hour Tuesday, March 20, from 6-7 p.m. in Jefferson Hall, […]

Inexperience plain on their faces and business cards in hand, students entered the Baker Ballroom in search of a conversation, a lead, some words of advice about careers or their resume. Students went away with suggestions scrawled on their resumes, follow-up notes jotted on the backs of business cards, possibilities […]

Sixteen College of Arts & Sciences Students earned departmental honors in 2018. Outstanding undergraduate students in the College of Arts & Sciences at the junior or senior level who maintain an accumulative GPA of at least 3.50 may be eligible to earn departmental honors from their department of major. A […]