Faculty in the News

Dr. Zakes Mda, Professor of Creative Writing: Fiction and Ohio University alum, will receive an honorary degree at Dartmouth College’s commencement in June, reports the Valley News (NH). Dartmouth Now further reports that Mda, a novelist, poet, playwright and professor, will receive a Doctor of Arts. Mda is also an […]

Skull Structures of 325-million-year-old Shark Fossil Show Living Sharks are Evolutionarily Advanced The skull of a newly discovered 325-million-year-old shark-like species suggests that early cartilaginous and bony fishes have more to tell us about the early evolution of jawed vertebrates—including humans—than do modern sharks, as was previously thought. The new […]

“It’s the stuff for which Nobel Prizes are awarded. The big news in cosmology is all about inflation, a theory that the universe suddenly expanded at an enormous rate in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a second,” writes Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Ohio University Professor of Physics,  in his […]

By Dr. Brandon Kendhammer Excerpted from Washington Post blog Monday morning, a bomb exploded at a busy transit station in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, killing a reported 71 and wounding 124. While no one has yet taken official credit for the attack, all signs point to Boko Haram, a militant Islamist […]

“Scientists who study deep space and string theory usually don’t get that worked up over lunar eclipses,” writes Dean Narciso in the April 13 Columbus Dispatch. But at 2 a.m. on Tuesday, April 15, “Earth will block the sun’s light from reflecting off the moon, causing a total eclipse — […]

Dr. Assan Sarr, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, writes in the Athens News that the department is proud of its early commitment to the study of African history. This year, Ohio University’s African Studies Program is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The university developed a tradition that I might […]

Dr. Cory Crawford, Assistant Professor of Classics and World Religions, and Dr. Deborah Thorne, Associate Professor of Sociology, were honored March 10 as two of the four new the University Professor Awardees. Thorne is a two-time recipient of the award, as reported in The Post. “I’m in a department of fantastic […]