Faculty in the News

“When I was a kid I heard people say that our family was ‘insurance poor.’ That meant that we spent too much on insurance, a criticism of my parents who were apprehensive about the future., writes Dr. George Weckman, Ohio University Professor Emeritus, writes June 10 in the Athens Messenger. […]

A zing that comes from having readers affirm his work?  A boost to his spirit? A sign that “I’ve created something unobjectionable enough to get past readers with very different tastes, the aesthetic equivalent of hotel furniture?” Dr. Eric LeMay tells the Competitive Writer blog that winning the Emergency Press’ […]

Ohio University research merges manganese, gallium nitride in uniform layer Ten years ago, scientists were convinced that a combination of manganese and gallium nitride could be a key material to create spintronics, the next generation of electronic devices that operate on properties found at the nanoscale. But researchers grew discouraged […]

The May 19 Chronicle of Higher Education article “The Long Odds of the Faculty Job Search” featured a review of an Ohio University faculty search in the Department of English Language and Literature in the College of Arts & Sciences. The creative writing position was filled by Patrick O’Keeffe, whose […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor of Economics at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences, published an opinion column in the New York Times’ Room for Debate on “Academic Merit is Most Important.” He writes: I think good will likely come […]

Dr. Greg Kessler, Director of the Language Resource Center in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University, has been invited to be the keynote speaker at the first International Conference on English Language Teaching and Globalization Nov. 15, 2013, at Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan. Kessler an alum of Ohio University who […]

The Ohio University Chaper of the Benjamin Rush Society presents Dr. Mark Lebar, Associate Professor of Philosophy, in a discussion concerning moral rights from a philosophical standpoint and how these rights are embedded in the delivery of healthcare.