Archive for October, 2020

Obscurants or “smoke screens” have been used on battlefields for hundreds of years and help soldiers evade enemies by masking the movement or location of military units, reports Ohio University News. Ohio University researchers, led by Distinguished Professor Alexander Govorov, are conducting research on creating advanced nanoscale-level smoke screens. The […]

Dr. Katherine Fornash is one of only 35 junior faculty recipients to receive a national highly competitive Oak Ridge Associated Universities research grant, reports Ohio University News. The Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards are intended to enrich the research and professional growth of young faculty. The award provides $10,000 […]

The deadline to begin the part-time online M.A. Program in Law, Justice & Culture in Spring 2021 (January) has been extended to December 1! The M.A. in Law, Justice & Culture—which focuses on critical analysis of law in relation to society, culture, politics and power—is accepting applications through Nov. 15 […]

The Psychology and Social Work Clinic and the Center for Intervention Research in Schools at Ohio University are offering a five-week virtual parent group for those experiencing parent burnout during the pandemic. Helping Parents Navigate Challenging Child Behavior begins Oct. 22, with five sessions on Thursdays, from 6 to 7:15 […]

Ohio University alumna Roberta Milliken BA ’85, MA ’87 was among four new deans named by Ohio University Regional Higher Education, according to an OHIO news release. Roberta Milliken, Ph.D., will join the Chillicothe Campus from Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio, where she has served as the dean of […]

The Associated Press quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined “First lady Melania Trump criticizes media about friend’s tell-all book.” Katherine Jellison, a history professor at Ohio University who studies first ladies, said Mrs. Trump’s response was “not from the usual first lady […]

Dr. Kevin Uhalde, Associate Professor of History and faculty affiliate at the Center for Law, Justice & Culture, recently authored the chapter “The Life of Penance” published in The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World (Oxford University Press, October 2020). Abstract: This chapter explores the relationship between memory, narrative, and penance in […]