In the News

Research by Dr. Alexander Govorov, Distinguished Professor of Physics & Astronomy, was featured in an Inhabitat article headlined “Hot electron research could open up greater efficiencies for solar energy.” Hot electron research is heating up solar and renewable energy research, according to the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. Nanoscientists […]

by Kristin Distel Dr. Amritjit Singh, Langston Hughes Professor of English and African American Studies, has had a year full of rich and wide-ranging activity. His career and scholarship were recently celebrated in multiple venues—an international television interview, a volume of essays published in his honor, and a story in […]

Dr. Anthony Stender, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was quoted in an article headlined “Luminescent nanoparticles leave a glowing fingerprint” in Chemical & Engineering News. A new fingerprinting technique that uses long-lived luminescent nanoparticles provides sharp images of otherwise invisible prints (Anal. Chem. 2017, DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b03003). The method offers […]

An Associate Press article headlined “Trump defense of Melania Trump follows presidential pattern” quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History at Ohio University. WASHINGTON (AP) — Bill Clinton once wanted to punch a newspaper columnist in the nose for calling Hillary Clinton a “congenital liar.” Ronald Reagan complained […]

Dr. Brandon Kendhammer, Associate Professor of Political Science, was quoted in a Voice of America news story headlined “Questions Linger Over US Role in Fighting Terrorism in Sahel.” WASHINGTON — The deaths of four U.S. Special Forces soldiers in Niger last month have raised questions about America’s role in the fight […]

Ohio University alum Steven Wills authored an article headlined “Franklin D. Roosevelt, ‘Gray Zone’ Warrior” at the popular national security blog War on the Rocks. Wills, now an analyst at CNA in Arlington, Va., recently earned a Ph.D. in military history from Ohio University, as well as a Certificate in Contemporary […]

  Ohio University alum Dr. Ben Holt has been named the “Microbiology and Plant Biology Professor Named Kinney Sugg Outstanding Professor, announced the University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences. Holt earned an M.S. Plant Biology in 1996 from the College of Arts & Sciences, which named him a […]