Archive for July, 2019

Jonathan Agensky, Assistant Professor of Political Science, has just published an article in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, titled “Evangelical Globalism and the Internationalization of Sudan’s Second Civil War”. In the article, Agensky argues that “the politics of Sudan’s civil war represents a global moment in faith-based advocacy and […]

Seven seniors from the History Department class of 2019 were inducted into national honors societies. Phi Beta Kappa: Academic Honors Society Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest U.S. national honors society for the liberal arts and sciences. Founded in 1776, it recognizes exemplary academic achievement and shows a commitment to the […]

As the new Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, I am delighted to present you with our summer issue of the college’s alumni newsletter Engage.  It is very exciting to lead a college with such an illustrious history, with outstanding students and alumni, and with highly dedicated faculty […]

Stigall Publishes Landmark Review of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event When Earth’s species were rapidly diversifying nearly 500 million years ago, that evolution was driven by complex factors including global cooling, more oxygen in the atmosphere, and more nutrients in the oceans. But it took a combination of many global […]

Kathleen Sullivan, Associate Professor of Political Science, has just published an article in the Studies in American Political Development, with her colleagues Patricia Strach and Elizabeth Pérez-Chiqués. The article, titled “The Garbage Problem: Corruption, Innovation, and Capacity in Four American Cities, 1890–1940”, looks at how cities innovated and built municipal capacity […]

  Direct observation of ultra-fast energetic (hot) electrons created by light photons in plasmonic nanodevices has been a nearly impossible task until now. A research team led by Dr. Alexander Govorov, Distinguished Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University, published a paper on “The fast and the furious: Ultrafast […]

Ohio University physics graduate student Joey Rowley was selected from a poster competition to give a talk at the 2019 National Nuclear Physics Summer School (NNPSS), held this year in Knoxville, TN. The NNPSS is a two-week series of lectures for graduate students from across the country in the field […]