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“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 […]

“The Hancock County Firefighters’ Association presented Adrianne Talmadge, a 2014 graduate of Liberty-Benton High School, the Potts/Parcher Memorial Scholarship at its June meeting,” reports the Northwestern Ohio Courier on June 18. Talmadge will be attending Ohio University with the goal of becoming a forensic chemist. While at Liberty-Benton, she was […]

Ohio University alum Jue Chen ’93, a structural biologist whose research focuses on transporter proteins that act as the cell’s pumping machinery, will join the Rockefeller University as professor and head of laboratory in July, according to a news release from Rockefeller University. Chen graduated from the Honors Tutorial College […]

A Ohio University alum Mary Kay Slesinger Rich ’58, ’62M authored a new book on You’re It: How to enjoy a successful life through creative attitudes. She also has a movie in production, My Dream Beside Me. She earned a bachelor’s in Sociology from the College of Arts &  Sciences […]

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 […]