Archive for December, 2019

Mitchell Finds Foreign Policy Decisions Complicated by Domestic Polarization at West Point Conference

Mitchell Finds Foreign Policy Decisions Complicated by Domestic Polarization at West Point Conference

Ohio University student Kiersten Mitchell ’20 discovered that making foreign policy decisions is complicated by domestic polarization in a mock foreign policy exercise at the 71st Annual Student Conference on U.S. Affairs at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York. The conference gives college students from across […]

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December 11, 2019 at 9:14 amIn Class News

Physicists Identify Ways to Unmask Elusive Quarks within Neutron Stars

Drs. Madappa Prakash and Sophia Han

What form of matter resides in the cores of neutron stars? A team of astrophysicists from Ohio University and Kent State University has published the latest in a series of articles about neutron star interiors, “Treating quarks within neutron stars,” in Physical Review D, a journal of the American Physical […]

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December 9, 2019 at 3:31 pmResearch

Advising Tip | Finals Week De-stress

Advising Tip | Finals Week De-stress

By Eileen Schulz College of Arts & Sciences Academic Advisor Wishing you the best of luck this week on finals.  You did it!  Fall semester is almost in the books.  You learned a great deal this term and you just have that FINAL step.   Here are a few links to […]

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December 9, 2019 at 9:34 amNews

University to Business Quotes Moran on Support for Local Food

Dr. Theresa Moran

Dr. Theresa Moran was quoted in a University to Business article headlined “Ohio University rallies support for the local food industry.” Moran is Assistant Professor & Food Studies Theme Director, Sustainable Living Hub Coordinator at Ohio University. By switching buying local, the university is advancing two critical missions: supporting local […]

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December 9, 2019 at 9:08 amFaculty in the News In the News

International Business Times Quotes Mattson: Partisanship Stronger Today than During Watergate

Dr. Kevin Mattson

The International Business Times quoted Dr. Kevin Mattson in an article headlined “45 Years After Nixon, Another US President Faces Impeachment.” Mattson is the Connor Study Professor of Contemporary History at Ohio University. “Part of the story of Watergate and the investigation is watching Republicans peel off, start to call […]

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December 9, 2019 at 7:50 amFaculty in the News In the News

Glidden Professor Speaks on Currents Manipulation in Graphene

Glidden Visiting Professor Daiara Faria

By Ling Xin NQPI Editorial Intern Dr. Daiara Faria from Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro State University discussed her latest research on the manipulation of currents in graphene and its implications for quantum computing at the Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute (NQPI) seminar on Nov. 14. Faria is a regular visitor […]

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December 6, 2019 at 3:25 pmNews Research

Holcomb Unearths Unpublished Harlem Renaissance Novel by Claude McKay

Dr. Gary Holcomb

From Ohio University News Dr. Gary Holcomb was conducting research on writer Claude McKay — a key literary figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in the 1920s — when he came across a reference to an unpublished novel. Intrigued, he contacted the Schomburg Center for Research in Black […]

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December 6, 2019 at 11:07 amResearch