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Moak Challenges ‘School-Prison Pipeline’ Narrative

Dr. Daniel Moak

by Aissatou Boye, ’20 As part of the Wealth and Poverty theme’s Urban Challenges week, Dr. Daniel Moak challenged the school-to-prison narrative in a talk Nov. 2 on “Class Absence: School-Prison Pipeline.” Watch Moak’s talk on A&S TV. Moak, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and a faculty affiliate of […]

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December 10, 2017 at 2:39 pmResearch

Kaufman Presents on Ohio’s Church-State Relationships in Drug and Alcohol Policy

Dr. Nicole Kaufman

Dr. Nicole Kaufman, Assistant Professor of Sociology, presented a paper on “Governing through Collaboration: Governing through Partnerships: Ohio’s Church-State Relationships in Drug and Alcohol Policy,” at the annual meeting of The American Society of Criminology in Philadelphia in November. The theme for this year’s conference was Crime, Legitimacy and Reform: […]

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December 6, 2017 at 1:27 pmResearch

Bychkovska, Lee Co-Author Article on Recurrent Multiword Expressions in Student Writing

Tetyana Bychkovska and Dr. Joseph Lee

Ohio University alum Tetyana Bychkovska ’17M and Dr. Joseph Lee, Associate Lecturer of Linguistics and Assistant Director of the English Language Improvement Program, co-authored an article on “At the same time: Lexical Bundles in L1 and L2 University Student Argumentative Writing” in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes. Bychkovska […]

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December 5, 2017 at 9:52 amResearch

Jewell Discusses Research at Data & Society Workshop

Babz Jewell

Sociology master’s candidate Babz Jewell ’14 attended a workshop in November by Data & Society, a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development. Jewell served as a participant in a full-day workshop in October at the organization’s New York City office. Her role […]

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December 4, 2017 at 4:49 pmResearch

Rosen Presents on ‘Visualizing’ Literary Anthropology

Dr. Matthew Rosen

Dr. Matt Rosen, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, presented a paper on “Visualizing the Ethnography of Reading: Literary Anthropology in a Sub-Discipline of Images” at the 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C., in November. The American Anthropological Association is the world’s largest association for professional anthropologists, […]

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December 4, 2017 at 4:44 pmResearch

Vis and Students Publish Two Articles on New Freshwater Red Alga

Dr. Morgan Vis

Dr. Morgan Vis, Professor and Chair of Environmental & Plant Biology, and graduate students describe a new freshwater red alga – Lympha mucosa in article  in Algae. This new alga was described in titled “Adding to the freshwater red algal diversity in North America: Lympha mucosa gen. et sp. nov. […]

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December 4, 2017 at 8:58 amResearch

Acquisition of Zetasizer Enhances Nanotechnology Research OHIO

Amir Farnoud with the Zetasizer ZS

By Raymond Humienny NQPI writing intern Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute member and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering professor Amir Farnoud was awarded a grant from the 1804 Fund titled “Acquisition of a Zetasizer ZS to enhance nanotechnology research and education at Ohio University.” The Zetasizer ZS is an instrument that […]

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December 3, 2017 at 11:14 pmResearch