Archive for March, 2021

NBC News quoted Jana Houser extensively in a story headlined “Tornado forecast: La Niña year could bring supercharged season.” Houser is Assistant Professor of Geography at Ohio University. “One of the things that La Niña does is it tends to result in a more wavy jet stream,” said Jana Houser, an […]

The Ohio University History Department awarded four undergraduate essays with this year’s Randolph Stone Prize. Each Randolph Stone Prize winner receives a cash award as well as recognition at the Annual Undergraduate History Conference. Justin Boyle originally wrote “New Mexican and Hawaiian Statehood: National Identity in Twentieth-Century America” as his […]

The Arts Fuse interviews Dr. Kevin Mattson on a Genuine Culture War — Punks versus Reagan. Mattson is the Connor Study Professor of Contemporary History at Ohio University. He recently authored WE’RE NOT HERE TO ENTERTAIN: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan and the Real Culture War of 1980s America, documenting how the […]

WOUB’s Tom Hudson interviews Dr. Nicholas Allan for a Conversations from B podcast on “Ohio’s Psychology Department Tackles Mental Health Issues Related to COVID.” Allan is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Ohio University and oversees the Psychology and Social Work Clinic, an outpatient mental health clinic staffed primarily by doctoral […]

The Analytical Scientist interviewed Dr. Peter Harrington about whether artificial intelligence is an answer for big data questions in a story headlined Do Androids Dream of Analytical Chemistry? Harrington, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio University, discusses his work on chemotyping botanical medicines, specifically cannabis, using machine learning (also […]

Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. In Athens Madeleine Hordinski ’20 discovered a wonderful place “full of incredible people and ethereal nature.” Now she’s heading west to a city of more than 4 million people, joining the […]

Ohio University alumna Sue Ryu ’20 published an article in the peer-reviewed Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography titled “Why We Love It Here: Exploration of Affection and Attachment in a Brazilian Urban Periphery.” “This research interprets the marginalized neighborhood of Serrinha as a place in the city of Florianópolis, Brazil, by examining […]