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How do you find a cave you can’t see? How do you stop a potential landslide? Ohio University students found a way. “Ever wish you could go somewhere truly unexplored?” asks Neha Gupta, a Geological Studies graduate student who produced Hunting Cave Blowholes with an Infrared Camera. “Finding unexplored cave […]

Dr. Robert Klein brought a bagel challenge on Pi Day. Pies—pizza pies, blueberry pies, custard pies and more—were devoured on March 14 in honor of Pi Day (3.14). Math students displayed posters highlighting their research, and Dr. Robert Klein’s bagel challenge had students going round and round. Master’s student Ian […]

By Jean Andrews Physicists from across the Midwest came to Athens in March to discuss “Quarks to Superclusters: the physics of the very big and the very small.” The Department of Physics and Astronomy hosted the Ohio Section of the American Physical Society (APS) on the Athens campus March 29-30. […]

OHIO alum Greg King and his students from Chubu University in Japan visit a linguistics class. From left: Takayuki Naito, Yuto Katano, Akino Taniguchi, Yugo Tajima (front center), Sachiko Sakurai, Greg King, and Yoshiyuki Uno. Chris Thompson chose Japan’s communal baths as a lens through which students could study a […]

Dean Robert Frank and Dr. Nancy Tatarek share a common interest in bones. On visiting Tatarek’s forensic anthropology lab, Frank discovered that they both have skull casts that were surgically perforated, or trephined, about 400 years ago. Imagine the following circumstances. You are taking a new drug developed to minimize […]

His goal is Wall Street or the Chicago Board of Trade, and he’s on a frenetic pace this semester that mirrors the trading floor. Nick Jones ’13M  is helping to manage $2.1 million in equities. He’s rubbing shoulders with two Federal Reserve presidents as well as some of the top […]

“Before studying math education at Ohio University, Daniel Showalter spent five years teaching and backpacking all over the world. On one trip, he witnessed something that sparked his passion for using math to help people,” writes Taylor Evans in Compass. Showalter was working in a remote area of India when […]