Archive for July, 2018

Working on the Wayne | Running Buffalo Clover

Flags for the rooted crowns of Running Buffalo Clover in a section of nature trail at Boch-Hollow Nature Preserve.

By Emily Uhlman Field Ecology student interning at the Wayne National Forest The Ohio University plant biology and wildlife biology interns tagged along to help monitor the status of running buffalo clover, Trifolium stoloniferum, which is listed as an endangered species in Ohio. We traveled to two sites that day. […]

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July 31, 2018 at 5:12 pmNews

Dantas Publishes Two Book Chapters

Dr. Mariana Dantas

Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor of History, recently contributed to two edited volumes based on her ongoing research. “Historical Approaches to Researching the Global Urban,” in Doing Global Urban Research, edited by John Harrison and Michael Hoyler (London: Sage, 2018), 211-224. (Co-authored with Emma Hart) This chapter considers the challenges, the […]

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July 30, 2018 at 5:49 pmResearch Uncategorized

Ingram Authors Book on Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England

Dr. Robert G. Ingram

Dr. Robert Ingram’s latest book publication is Reformation without End: Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England (Manchester University Press, 2018). Ingram, Professor of History, is also director of the George Washington Forum on American Ideas, Politics and History. In Reformation without End, Ingram offers a radical reinterpretation of the […]

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July 30, 2018 at 5:13 pmResearch

Food Studies and OHIO Student Farm Host Ghanaian Scholars

Food Studies and OHIO Student Farm Host Ghanaian Scholars

The Food Studies theme recently hosted a delegation of faculty and graduate students from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana at the OHIO Student Farm. The scholars were here to study service-learning in rural Appalachia. After a film presentation about Food Studies and discussion with students, they toured the Student […]

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July 30, 2018 at 1:46 pmAlumni News

Alumni News | Crane Appointed to UN Commission on 2018 Protests in Occupied Palestinian Territory

OHIO alum David Crane speaks at gradatue commencement after receiving an honorary doctorate degree from Interim President David Descutner. Photo by Ben Siegel

Ohio University alum David Crane was appointed by the United Nation Human Rights Council to chair a three-member Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, according to a UN news announcement. Crane earned a bachelor’s degree in History in 1972 and a master’s in African Studies in 1973. […]

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July 30, 2018 at 1:44 pmAlumni Alumni in the News In the News

Alumni News | Warner’s Path Leads to Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office

Marcus Warner '06

By Marcus Warner ’06, M.S., F-ABC Senior Forensic Scientist with Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office I started my undergraduate career at Ohio University certain of one thing—I wanted to work in science. I had a bumpy start my first year and really questioned is chemistry really for me. Maybe too […]

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July 30, 2018 at 12:41 pmAlumni

Congressional Research Service Seeks Foreign Affairs Research Assistants | Apply by Aug. 17

The Congressional Research Service Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division (FDT) is seeking three limited-term Research Assistants to support a broad range of research tasks in three distinct sections in FDT. Apply by Aug. 17. The relevant sections are Foreign Policy Management & Global Issues; Middle East & Africa; and […]

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July 30, 2018 at 12:01 pmAnnouncements