Faculty in the News

Stephen Moore quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in a Heritage Foundation article on “Obama’s Economy: Where Did All The Young Workers Go?” Economists are scratching their heads trying to figure out a puzzle in this recovery: Why are young people not working? People […]

“Is there a connection between cloud formation and cosmic rays coming from galactic sources? This question has an impact on weather modeling, and new experiments are just starting to yield answers,” writes Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Ohio University Professor of Physics, in the June 29 Columbus Dispatch. “We know that clouds […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, was referenced in an op-ed by Stephen Moore in the Washington Examiner on “Why not boost teen employment with a training wage?” This is the time of year when teenagers scramble to land a summer job, but many states […]

Dr. Jaclyn Maxwell, Associate Professor of History with a joint appointment in Classics & World Religions, will provide historical commentary as a study leader for a Smithsonian Journey cruise to the ancient windswept islands of Greece and the fabled coast of Turkey in September. Participants will visit “some of the […]

“Some people describe a lonesome highway or the middle of a desert town—even a state like Ohio—as ‘the middle of nowhere.’ But for others, like Eric LeMay, no such place exists,” writes Jill Talbot in a discussion for New Books in Literature with the writer about his new book. There […]

Daniel Keyes, Professor of Creative Writing at Ohio University from 1966-90, passed away on June 15. Keyes arrived at Ellis Hall a year after his first novel—Flowers for Algernon—was published. His story of the mouse named Algernon, a man with an I.Q. of 68, and an experimental procedure to make […]

Bradley T. Lepper, curator of archaeology at the Ohio Historical Society, wrote about research by two Ohio University anthropologists on June 15 in an op-ed in the Columbus Dispatch titled “Ancient cultures affected by climate change, too.” Climate change must have presented challenges as well as opportunities for ancient cultures […]