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Ohio University alum Donald Heymann ’74 has started a new series on successful business writing, reports PR-Canada.net. Heymann majored in English in the College of Arts & Sciences. Don Heymann Considers Housewives to Wall Street Donald L. Heymann, well known business writer and Adjunct Instructor of Writing at NYU, has […]

High in the Rocky Mountains, John Buffington ’15 fell in love with the wolves. Now the Wildlife and Conservation Biology major is sharing his passion through a comic book that he wrote and illustrated called Keyni—The First Walk. “So back in July, while I was interning at the Colorado Wolf […]

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 […]

Physics & Astronomy graduate student Mongi Dlamini was helping April 1 when “the crown jewel of the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility sparkled its way into a new era,” as Science Daily described it. That day will “forever remain engraved in my mind,” Dlamini says. The accelerator’s […]

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 — […]