Archive for January, 2021

Dr. Alycia Stigall, Professor of Geological Sciences, was elected to serve as a voting member of the Subcommisson on Ordovician Stratigraphy (SOS) for 2020-2024.  The subcommission is part of the International Commission on Stratigraphy an international body of geoscientists tasked with “setting global standards for the fundamental scale for expressing […]

The Awate Team published a review of an interview with Dr. Ghirmai Negash on the situation in the Horn of Africa. Negash is Professor of English and Director of the African Studies program at Ohio University. As far as we are concerned, as Professor Ghirmai clearly explained, the key issues […]

Ohio University’s Linguistics Colloquium Series announces its Spring 2021 schedule, which includes several recent graduates of the M.A. in Linguistics program as well as professional development mentoring for current students. Colloquia are Fridays from 12:55-1:50 p.m. via Microsoft TEAMS. Join the meetings on your computer or mobile app. Or call […]

Dr. Jessica White and fourth-year doctoral student Shabnam Pordel recently published an article titled “Impact of steric bulk on photoinduced ligand exchange reactions in Mn(I) photoCORMs” in Inorganica Chimica Acta. White is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio University. She is also a member of the Molecular & […]

The Nation writer Samuel Zipp reviews Dr. Kevin Mattson’s xxx in an article headlined The Ethical Commitment to Be a Punk. Mattson’s book begins and ends with Cobain’s death, but it’s really a kind of coda to the larger story he hopes to tell. It’s an indicator of the stakes […]

Ohio University alumnus Richard Friedberg ’62 died at age 80 after a long life that included military service in Korea and Vietnam and an active life onstage in Key Biscayne, Fla., according to his obituary in the Islander News. Friedberg was born in Cleveland Ohio in 1940. He lived most […]

The Washington Post quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined First lady blasts critics, praises Trump backers’ ‘passion’. Trump’s latest statement is “at least in part a response to Winston-Wolkoff’s op-ed,” says Katherine Jellison, a professor of history at Ohio University who studies […]