Archive for March, 2018

Alumni News | Planton Featured in Bright Young Librarians Series

Isabel Planton

Ohio University alum Isabel Planton ’06, who is the public services librarian at the Lilly Library at Indiana University in Bloomington, was profiled by Fine Book Magazine’s Bright Young Librarians series. Connect with Planton on LinkedIn. See her IU webpage. Planton earned a B.A. in English and a Women’s Studies […]

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March 15, 2018 at 1:44 pmAlumni Alumni in the News In the News

Quarter After Eight Features Hybrid Writing, New Voices

The issue's cover features artwork, titled "Pincushion," by visual article Nicole Havecost

by Kristin Distel Quarter After Eight, one of Ohio University’s creative writing journals, published its 24th issue with Derek Robbins, doctoral candidate in creative writing, as the journal’s current editor. The journal, which has been run by OHIO graduate students since its founding in 1994, features innovative writing styles, voices, […]

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March 15, 2018 at 1:17 pmNews Research

Little Writes on Conformity: Don’t ‘Become So Mesmerized by Our Identities’

JJacob Little, Doctoral Student of Creative Writing and Co-Founder of PROFANE

Jacob Little, a doctoral student in Creative Writing at Ohio University, published an article headlined “Escaping Conformity” in Quillette. In the article, Little responds to a Tumblr post that began, “Here’s the problem with the idea that oppressed groups can ‘alienate allies’ by not being nice enough….” “The person who […]

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March 15, 2018 at 12:56 pmResearch

Hao Articles Identifies New Supercharging Agents in Mass Spectrometry of Peptides and Proteins

Dr. Hao Chen

Dr. Hao Chen co-authored an article on “Enhancing sensitivity of liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry of peptides and proteins using supercharging agents” in the International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, based on the work led by Professors Rachel Loo and Joseph Loo at UCLA. The article identifies new supercharging agents, tetraethylsulfamide and 2-methyl-2-oxazoline. […]

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March 15, 2018 at 9:15 amResearch

‘Losers Dream On’ in Halliday’s New Book of Poems

Dr. Mark Halliday

Dr. Mark Halliday’s new book of poems, Losers Dream On, has recently been published with the University of Chicago Press. Halliday, Professor of English at Ohio University, says the poems in this new collection “keep finding tension—sometimes comic, sometimes pathetic, sometimes desperate—between the inevitability of losing in life and the […]

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March 14, 2018 at 2:55 pmResearch

Online Degrees Well-Suited for Dual Enrollment Teachers

Online Degrees Well-Suited for Dual Enrollment Teachers

The College of Arts & Sciences now offers three master’s degrees well-suited for secondary schoolteachers who are seeking opportunities to earn the necessary credentials to teach college-level, dual enrollment courses. The newest online master’s is the non-thesis M.S. in Chemistry, which is designed both for teachers preparing to teach dual […]

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March 14, 2018 at 1:48 pmNews

Dispatch Quotes Popescu on ODNR Study of State’s Bobcat Population

Bobcat caught on camera on July 13, 2017.

The Columbus Dispatch quoted Dr. Viorel Popescu, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University, in a March 12 story headlined “Ohio proposal for a limited bobcat season pits trappers vs. conservationists.” “We want to know how many bobcats are there. We’re trying to put it all together like a […]

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March 14, 2018 at 9:16 amFaculty in the News In the News