Faculty in the News

  From the Logan Daily News, Oct. 7: NEW STRAITSVILLE — The sight of almost a quarter of New Straitsville’s population packing into the Rural Action Monday Creek Restoration Project (MCRP) recently for a presentation about sasquatch was almost as surprising as seeing sasquatch himself. Scott Moody (Associate Professor of […]

  North Neighbor News reports that “as part of the Smithsonian exhibition ‘Journey Stories,’ the North Canton Heritage Society will host Dr. Timothy Anderson of Ohio University, who will speak on ‘Germanic Migrants and Immigrants in Ohio: Patterns and Landscapes.’” North Canton was settled by German migrants who brought their […]

Jennie L. Phipps of Bankrate.com quoted Dr. Jay E. Ryu, Associate Professor of Political Science in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University, in a Oct. 1 post “How Shutdown Affects Retirement.” If the federal shutdown persists, your retirement and even your retirement planning could be affected. Here’s […]

Dr. Peggy Zoccola, Assistant Professor of Psychology, appears in the “Real women, real-world advice” section an article in the October 2013 edition of Good Housekeeping with simple advice from her recent study on how dwelling on stressful events can increase inflammation in the body. “If you only do one thing […]

“Institutional reform depends on three ‘I’ words: information, incentives, and innovation. Let me discuss each of these words in the context of institutional governance,” said Dr. Richard Vedder as he addressed members of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. Vedder is Director of the Center for College Affordability […]

“The rise of the forerunners of the Appalachian Mountains may have opened the gates for invasive species to storm the lost continent that gave rise to North America, new research suggests,” writes NBC News’ Science blogger Charles Q. Choi on Sept. 3 Such research could shed light on how to […]

Ohio University professor and alum Dr. Akil Houston has been named to a list of the Top 25 African American Professors in Ohio at Online Schools Ohio, run by StateStats.org. Houston is Assistant Professor of Cultural and Media Studies in the Department of African American Studies in the College of […]