Research

OHIO Physicists Advance Understanding of Chromium Nitride’s Controversial Properties

Professor Arthur R. Smith

  Ohio University physicists Dr. Arthur R. Smith and Dr. Sergio Ulloa have published side-by-side papers about understanding of the chemical compound chromium nitride, a material with a number of interesting but fairly controversial electronic, magnetic, and structural properties. Ulloa and Smith are members of OHIO’s Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena […]

Read more ›
October 4, 2017 at 5:39 pmResearch

Notre Dame Physicists Travel to Edwards Accelerator Lab to Study Nuclear Reactions in Stars

ND Doctoral Student Bryant Vande Kolk adds a pulser cable to a detector to test its time of flight signal.

  Ohio University Physics & Astronomy professors Drs. Carl Brune, Alexander Voinov, and Thomas Massey of the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics recently hosted a group of nuclear physicists from the University of Notre Dame for a week at the John C. Edwards Accelerator Laboratory. Notre Dame doctoral candidate […]

Read more ›
October 4, 2017 at 3:26 pmResearch

Nance Incorporating Paddle Boat Engine into Investigations of Mining Technology

Dr. Damian Nance

Dr. Damian Nance, Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences, was given a personal tour of a unique steam engine in San Francisco by the National Park Service this summer as part of a Baker Award project on the use of steam in 19th century mining technology. Moored at Hyde Street Pier […]

Read more ›
October 2, 2017 at 4:30 pmResearch

Krzic Gives Lecture on Story of the U.S. Peace Corps in Korea

Dr. Gerry Krzic

Dr. Gerry Krzic gives an invited lecture on “Korean History: The Story of the U.S. Peace Corps in Korea” Sept. 30 at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Washington, D.C. Krzic is Director of Ohio University’s ESL program, called the Ohio Program of Intensive English, which is celebrating […]

Read more ›
September 29, 2017 at 8:56 amResearch

Environmental & Plant Biology Showcases Student Work at Graduate Symposium

Marion Holmes, Ph.D. student, gives a talk about research she presented at the Ecological Society of America meeting last summer in Portland, OR.

By MC Tilton PACE Writer Environmental & Plant Biology students and faculty gathered on Sept. 22 for the 11th annual Graduate Student Research Symposium. The symposium featured a talk from Ph.D. student Marion Andrews Holmes on the organization of second-growth forest floors and 10 poster presentations on topics ranging from […]

Read more ›
September 26, 2017 at 8:55 amResearch

Minor Publishes Essay on Quilting and Writing

Sarah Minor, doctoral candidate in creative writing

by Kristin Distel Sarah Minor, doctoral candidate in creative writing, has published a well-received essay with Literary Hub. Her essay, “What Quilting and Embroidery Can Teach Us about Narrative Form,” examines the connections between stitched texts and braided essays. “A beautifully described personal scene, like a stitched text, can reveal […]

Read more ›
September 24, 2017 at 7:55 pmResearch

Castellano and Scott in Current Issue of Ohio Lawyer

Dr. Ursula Castellano

Dr. Ursula Castellano, Associate Professor of Sociology, appears in the September-October edition of Ohio Lawyer with co-author Dana Scott, Assistant Professor of Nursing at the Center for Nursing Education, Ohio University-Southern. “Veterans Treatment Courts (VTCs) are the latest innovation in the problem-solving court (PSC) movement,” they write. “Modeled after drug […]

Read more ›
September 22, 2017 at 8:22 amResearch