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OHIO Mock Trial Team Competes at Columbus Regional

OHIO Mock Trial Team after Columbus Regional. in 2016

The Ohio University Mock Trial Team sent two teams to the Franklin County Courthouse to compete in the Columbus Regional of the American Mock Trial Association competition on Feb. 11-12.  The OHIO team was divided into two separate competing teams, the Green Team and the White Team, with a total […]

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February 15, 2017 at 1:26 pmNews

Recognition and Revelation in the Work of Rachel B. Glaser

Recognition and Revelation in the Work of Rachel B. Glaser

Rachel B. Glaser is the author of the books Paulina & Fran (a novel), Pee on Water (short stories), and MOODS (poetry). Glaser, who won the McSweeney’s Amanda Davis Fiction Award in 2013, has been anthologized in 30 Under 30 and New American Stories. Also a visual artist, she studied painting […]

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February 15, 2017 at 1:24 pmNews

Collaborative Research Receives NIH Grant, Strives to Prevent Disease

Dr. Jennifer Hines

By Megan Reed A chemical engineering professor in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology has received a nearly $450,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund research that could potentially help mitigate serious diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Dr. Douglas Goetz will […]

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February 15, 2017 at 8:34 amNews

Three A&S Faculty Honored for Patents in 2016

Distinguished Professor Tadeusz Malinski was one of 11 Ohio University faculty members recognized for receiving U.S. patents in 2016. President Roderick McDavis presented each patent holder with a plaque. Photo credit: Kaitlin Owens/Ohio University.

Ohio University honored 75 faculty, staff and student inventors for work in areas ranging from wound healing to superconductors during an awards ceremony Feb. 8. The Inventors Dinner recognized individuals who had received a patent, filed for a patent or disclosed a new invention through the university’s Technology Transfer Office, […]

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February 14, 2017 at 12:47 pmNews

Chemistry Student Takes 1st Place in 3-Minute Thesis Competition

Ian Armstrong

College of Arts & Sciences students took first and second place in the Three Minute Thesis Competition on Feb. 15. The 1st place award of $300 went to Ian Armstrong, a doctoral student in Chemistry & Biochemistry. His talk was on “Constructing new molecular ‘keys’ in the search of treatments […]

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February 14, 2017 at 10:41 amNews

Curran and Team Awarded NSF Funds to Continue Pleistocene Research in Romania

Newly excavated partial mammoth skeleton n in lab at Institute of Speleology in Romania.

by Harlee Rozell ’17 Last summer Dr. Sabrina Curran, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, traveled to Romania to continue her research involving the geographical movement of the Homo erectus species, an ancestor of modern humans, during the early Pleistocene. Her interest in this project began in 2008, when she first traveled to […]

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February 14, 2017 at 10:16 amNews

Meet 2016 Distinguished Professor of Physics Alexander Govorov

Dr. Alexander Govorov

From Compass Dr. Alexander Govorov is an esteemed physics professor and researcher at Ohio University who is credited for starting the field of chiral plasmonics and plasmonic assemblies. He is considered to be an expert regarding the theory of optical properties of nanomaterials and nanostructures, and some of his more […]

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February 14, 2017 at 8:41 amNews