Research

During the 2016-17 academic year, Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, will be a resident fellow at the National Humanities Center, in North Carolina. She will be working on the manuscript of her second book. The project examines the formation of mixed-race families in colonial Brazil by […]

Over three years, Dr. Anna Rachel Terman was engaged in field research in West Virginia. Now in her second year at Ohio University, Terman, Assistant Professor of Sociology, has completed her research and presented a portion of her findings Aug. 9 at the Rural Sociological Society Conference in Toronto. In […]

  By Amanda Biederman NQPI editorial intern Ohio University Professor of Physics & Astronomy and Nanoscale & Quantum Phenomena Institute member Saw-Wai Hla recently demonstrated simultaneous operation of hundreds of synchronized molecular rotors that, through dipole interactions based on carefully tailored positive and negative forces at different points within the […]

Dr. David Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, co-authored an article on “Intensifying drought eliminates the expected benefits of elevated carbon dioxide for soybean.” The article appeared Sept. 5 in Nature Plants. Abstract: Stimulation of C3 crop yield by rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide ([CO2]) is widely […]

This past August, Dr. Joshua Hill, Assistant Professor of History, recently gave a talk on “The ‘Right to Bear Arms’ in the Early Chinese Republic” at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of Modern History in Beijing. He discussed the curious (and little known) appearance of “Second Amendment”-style protections for […]

by Kristin M. Distel Dr. Lisa Stein Haven, associate professor of English at Ohio University Zanesville, will publish in November 2016 Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp in America, 1947-77, her third book on a Charlie Chaplin-focused topic. Haven, a widely recognized expert on Chaplin and the genre of silent film, has […]

Dr. Kimberly Rios, Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of Experimental Training, is an associate editor for two journals: Group Processes and Intergroup Relations—”Group Processes & Intergroup Relations (GPIR), peer-reviewed and published bi-monthly, is a scientific social psychology journal dedicated to research on social psychological processes within and between groups. […]