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Faculty and students from the Linguistics Department, Ohio Program of Intensive English, and English Language Improvement Program are presenting at the Ohio University CALL Conference on April 11. CALL is computer-assisted language learning. Dr. Greg Kessler, Director of the Language Resource Center in the College of Arts & Sciences and […]

Sometime this spring, a gas cloud called G2 will come perilously close to a black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Ohio University Professor of Physics, talks about the “Front-row Seat for a Black-Hole Feeding Frenzy” in his Columbus Dispatch column. “It is a well-established […]

Dr. Patricia Weitsman, Professor of Political Science and Director of War and Peace Studies at Ohio University, passed away this week. She was a highly respected scholar, enthusiastic gym instructor and loving parent, wife, daughter and sister. “It was a great gift to able to spend nearly two decades as […]

Mary “Cassie” Norton ’14, a triple major in English, History and World Religions, is Ohio University’s first member of Theta Alpha Kappa, the National Honor Society for Religious Studies and Theology. Ohio University’s Alpha Lambda Tau chapter of Theta Alpha Kappa was established in February. “Having a Theta Alpha Kappa chapter […]

Dr. Daniel Phillips, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, was honored as one of the 2014 Outstanding Referees by the American Physical Society. “Congratulations to Daniel. This is a great acknowledgement for your service to the profession by the editors of Physical Review and Physical Review Letters,” said Dr. David Ingram, […]

Gondwana. Rodinia. Nuna. Kenorland. Vaalbara. They sound like other worlds. They likely represent the past of this world. The introduction of plate tectonics 45 years ago was one of the scientific revelations of the 20th century. German meteorologist Alfred Wegener is given credit for hypothesizing in 1912 that today’s continents […]

The American Society of Plant Biologists Midwestern Section annual meeting in Columbus on March 22-23. Doctoral student Wen Dong and undergraduate student researchers Avery Tucker, Megan Moore, Sean Fenstemaker, and  Tayler DeBrosse won awards for their presentations. Avery E. Tucker, an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the Wyatt Lab, won Best […]