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Less than two weeks after Ohio University hosted the plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, the event was mentioned on the floor of the U.S. Senate by Sen. Sherrod Brown. James Obergefell, the named plaintiff in the marriage equality case, was in Washington, D.C., to meet […]

Ohio University alum Dr. Jason Harman was selected to participate in the Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality​ at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin this summer. Then he’s headed to the Department of Psychology at Louisiana State University, where he has accepted a position as an assistant professor. Harman earned an […]

The Columbus Dispatch’s Jessica Wehrman had the right woman but the wrong school in her March 26 story on “Afghanistan president’s address to Congress provokes memories from one Ohio veteran.” The Friends of the American University of Afghanistan points out that Khatera Afghan is an Ohio University alum, having earned […]

Sky and Telescope quotes Dr. Douglas Clowe, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, in an article on “How Slippery is Dark Matter?” “Dozens of galaxy cluster collisions confirm that dark matter particles probably slip right past each other within messy cluster mergers,” writes Monica Young. “The existence of dark matter […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, penned an article on “Fleeing Leviathan” on March 30 at Forbes: My good friend Wendell Cox has sent me his analysis of recent Census Bureau data on population movements in […]

Dr. Joseph Kittle, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Ohio University, was mentioned in a Columbus Business First article on “Applied Biomolecular Technologies building biotech commercialization engine.” Applied Biomolecular Technologies Inc. is owned by three former Battelle biotech researchers and an entrepreneur pursuing a private path to getting research […]

“By any objective measure, our system of federal student financial assistance for college students has been an unmitigated disaster, Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, who posits a “income share” or “human capital contract” concept in […]