Archive for November, 2019

Terman, Kostansek Present ‘Intergenerational Community Visions in Appalachian Ohio’

Dr. Anna Rachel Terman

by Alex Paoletti ’20 Dr. Rachel Terman, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio University, and Joy Kostansek, M.A. student in Sociology, presented “Intergenerational Community Visions in Appalachian Ohio” at the Rural Sociological Society conference in August in Richmond, VA. RSS aims to improve rural life, community, and environment. The annual […]

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November 12, 2019 at 9:27 amResearch

White and Pordel Use NMR, Infrared Spectroscopy to Study Impact of Ligand Set During Light-Activated CO Release

Dr. Jessica White

Dr. Jessica White and third-year Ph.D. student Shabnam Pordel recently published an article titled “Impact of Mn(I) photoCORM ligand set on photochemical intermediate formation during visible light-activated CO release” in Inorganica Chimica Acta. White is Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio University. She is also a member of the […]

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November 12, 2019 at 8:13 amResearch

Athens News Writes about Brewing Class and 16th Century Yeast

Art Oestrike

“Jackie O’s Brewery in Athens last week revealed a unique beer brewed using yeast collected and reanimated from brewing barrels at an Ecuadorian monastery in collaboration with an Ohio University class and a visiting professor from a university in Quito, Ecuador. This particular yeast was first used in 1566,” reported […]

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November 12, 2019 at 7:58 amAlumni in the News Faculty in the News In the News

Alumni News | High School Honors Veteran, Professor Emeritus Bradshaw with Scholarship Fund

Dr. Homer Leslie Bradshaw

“A scholarship fund was recently created to honor the memory of Dr. Homer Leslie Bradshaw, a long-time resident of Sinking Spring, for graduates of Peebles High School. Dr. Bradshaw was an educator; he retired in 1985 from Ohio University in Athens, where he worked as a Professor of Psychology,” reports […]

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November 11, 2019 at 3:22 pmAlumni Alumni in the News In the News

NEA Talks to Martin on ‘Searing Imagery that Captures the Pathos and Atmosphere of War’

Hugh MartinHugh Martin

Hugh Martin joined the Ohio Army National Guard about three months before 9/11. In 2004 he was deployed to Iraq. The National Endowment for the Arts’ blog published an interview in time for Veterans Day with Hugh Martin about his poetry and the “searing imagery that captures the pathos and […]

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November 10, 2019 at 9:37 amIn the News Students in the News

OHIO Today Honors Harold Brown, One of the Last Living Tuskegee Airmen

Harold Brown

Ohio Today honors Lt. Col. Harold Brown, an Ohio University alumnus who flew a P-51 Mustang fighter in World War II, spent time in a German POW camp, then returned home to begin a career that would eventually find him retiring as vice president of academic affairs at Columbus State […]

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November 9, 2019 at 9:33 amAlumni Alumni in the News In the News News

Stigall Publishes a Hierarchical Framework for Species Invasions

Dr. Alycia Stigall

Not all invasions are equal. Dr. Alycia Stigall proposes a new framework to understand species invasions using the fossil record in a new review, “The Invasion Hierarchy: Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Invasion in the Fossil Record” published in the Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. Stigall is Professor of Geological Sciences […]

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November 8, 2019 at 4:47 pmResearch