Archive for February, 2020

Mock Trial Competes in Columbus, Brooks Wins Best Attorney

Mock Trial Competes in Columbus, Brooks Wins Best Attorney

The Ohio University Mock Trial team sent two teams to the American Mock Trial Association Regional Tournament in Columbus the weekend of Feb. 22-23, with one student receiving an award for outstanding performance during competition. The tournament took place at the Franklin County Courthouse with each team competing in four trials […]

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February 28, 2020 at 10:16 amNews

Johnson Gets Baker Award to Study Hibernation Sites of North American Bats

Dr. Joseph Johnson

From Ohio University News Dr. Joseph Johnson was one of four Ohio University professors awarded funds from the John C. Baker Fund during fall semester 2019 for their research and scholarly work. Johnson, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, was awarded $12,000 to continue researching the hibernation sites of North American […]

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February 27, 2020 at 2:44 pmResearch

Happy Beginnings | Whitlock Enjoys Working with Supportive Team in Children’s Services

Happy Beginnings | Whitlock Enjoys Working with Supportive Team in Children’s Services

Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. By Aissatou Boye, ’20 Sierra Whitlock ’16 ’18M is a children’s services worker with Hamilton County Children Services, an organization that helps families and those in […]

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February 27, 2020 at 10:29 amAlumni News

Moran and Bell Publish on the Linguistic Style of Wine Tasting Notes

Drs. Theresa Moran and David Bell at the Village Bakery monthly wine tasting event.

Whether in the form of reviews in the mass-media and in dedicated magazines and websites such as the Wine Spectator, or in wine blogs, or in label-scanning apps such as Vivino, or even in millions of user reviews on sites such as Cellar Tracker, wine tasting notes are ubiquitous and […]

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February 26, 2020 at 3:29 pmResearch

Advising Tip | Time to Take Full Advantage of Office Hours with Your Professor

Eileen Schulz, Academic Advisor

By Eileen Schulz College of Arts & Sciences Academic Advisor It is week seven, and we are halfway to completing the spring semester. By now you have received valuable feedback from your instructors on how you are doing. You may have taken midterms or completed a project or two for […]

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February 25, 2020 at 9:18 amNews

Harrington Designs Enhanced Zippy Restricted Boltzmann Machine for Smaller Datasets

Dr. Peter de B. Harrington

Dr. Peter de B. Harrington authored an article on “Enhanced zippy restricted Boltzmann machine for feature expansion and improved classification of analytical data” in the Journal of Chemometrics. “Restricted Boltzmann machines are a component of deep learning, and many people think that they are limited to “big data” for which […]

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February 25, 2020 at 7:56 amResearch

Settling Ohio: Waterways, Apples, Power & Class

William Kerrigan with John Chapman sketch

“The settling of Ohio is all about the rivers—what the settlers called the Western waters,” said Dr. Kim Gruenwald at the Settling Ohio: First Nations and Beyond conference held Feb. 21-22 at Ohio University. She went on to describe trade bounded by the movement of goods when river conditions were […]

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February 24, 2020 at 5:41 pmNews