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Promotion Dossier Workshops for Group II Faculty

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Promotion Dossier Workshops for Faculty in December will be geared especially for Group II faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences who plan to be considered for promotion in spring 2014 and who will be working to develop a promotion dossier within the next several months. These workshops are […]

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October 24, 2013 at 7:24 amAnnouncements News

Sasquatch DNA: A Red-Haired Sister to Humans?

Sasquatch DNA: A Red-Haired Sister to Humans?

DNA evidence has gotten felons off death row. Could it be about to get Sasquatch onto the list of newly discovered species? Dr. Scott Moody has been teaching and researching various topics of biology at Ohio University for 35 years. For the last 15 years or so, when he took […]

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October 23, 2013 at 9:13 amNews

Separating Fact from Fiction in Nanotechnology

Separating Fact from Fiction in Nanotechnology

From the Nanoscale & Quantum Phenomena Institute Don’t expect nanotechnology to produce tiny robots with artificial intelligence that devour cancer cells or ropes with Carbon nanotube strands that are strong enough to build a space elevator from Earth to the orbiting stations. These ideas are nothing but hype in the […]

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October 19, 2013 at 7:39 pmNews

After the Troubles: Revising the Dominant Narrative

After the Troubles: Revising the Dominant Narrative

By Celia Burke ’14 Double Major in Anthropology and War and Peace Studies My plane landed on the runway of the Dublin International Airport on June 26, exactly 50 years (give or take a few hours) after John F. Kennedy arrived in Dublin for his first, and only, presidential trip […]

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October 18, 2013 at 4:01 pmNews

How the World’s Poor Live on Less Than $2 a Day

How the World’s Poor Live on Less Than $2 a Day

About 40 percent of the planet lives on $2 a day or less. How is it even possible? How do families get through a typical week or a year? Dr. Jonathan Morduch, Professor of Public Policy and Economics at New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, shared lessons […]

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October 18, 2013 at 3:25 pmNews

Speed-Mentoring Offers Faculty Timely Tips

Speed-Mentoring Offers Faculty Timely Tips

By Kelsey Miller Compass As Alden Library buzzed with students preparing for midterms this past Friday, the Friends of the Library Room on the third floor was filling with eager professors. The smell of apple cider, coffee and pumpkin bread filled the room as some of Ohio University’s veteran Arts […]

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October 18, 2013 at 9:38 amNews

Post: Proposal Submitted for Observatory on Ridges Site

“Joe Shields, Vice President for Research and Creative Activity and dean of the Graduate College, has proposed OU build an observatory to house two telescopes on the former site of Building 26 at The Ridges,” writes Ohio University Post reporter Will Drabold on Oct. 3. The proposal, submitted Aug. 26, […]

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October 18, 2013 at 9:35 amNews