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History Faculty Maintain Scholarly Engagement during Pandemic

History Faculty Maintain Scholarly Engagement during Pandemic

In the past few months, members of the Ohio University History Department have participated in a number of online events, sharing their research and collaborating with an international community of scholars amidst a pandemic that caused the widespread cancelation of in-person events. When the COVID pandemic caused shutdowns around the […]

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March 18, 2021 at 11:07 amResearch

Thompson Discovers Tadpoles Coping with Drier Conditions, Sheds Light on Effects of Climate Change

Left: Metamorph from a fast-drying pool. Right: Metamorph from a slow-drying pool. Photo by Kyle Brooks.

From Ohio University News Warmer spring weather is bringing the familiar early sounds of spring peepers and wood frogs calling. These amphibians breed in temporary vernal pools, which are small bodies of water that are critical habitat to many amphibians and aquatic invertebrates. Ohio University researchers have discovered some new […]

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March 17, 2021 at 1:05 pmNews

O’Keefe Publishes Book on Immigrant Political Influence in Early American Republic

Dr. John O'Keefe

From Ohio University News Dr. John O’Keefe, professor of History at Ohio University’s Chillicothe campus, is trying to clear up misinformation about the history of immigration in his new book, “Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Public.” His focus is on how immigrants who came to the […]

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March 11, 2021 at 4:46 pmResearch

Klein Curates Pattern and Disruption: Diné Lifeways and Embedded Mathematics

From left, curators Sally Fowler, Bob Klein and Henry Fowler

Dr. Robert Klein is a co-curator of Pattern and Disruption: Diné Lifeways and Embedded Mathematics at the Kennedy Museum of Art. Reserve your visit. Klein is Professor of Mathematics at Ohio University. Drawing from the Edwin L. and Ruth E. Kennedy Southwest Native American collection, this exhibition explores Diné (Navajo) weaving […]

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March 8, 2021 at 5:09 pmResearch

Popescu Challenges Students to Tackle World’s ‘Wicked’ Environmental Problems in New Textbook

Dr. Viorel Popescu

Dr. Viorel Popescu brings an urgency about environmental issues around the country and the world to today’s college students in a new edition of a textbook on conservation biology. “By embracing new theory and practice and documenting many examples of both conservation successes and the hard lessons of real-world ‘wicked’ […]

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March 5, 2021 at 3:24 pmResearch

Moody Recognized For a Life Spent Studying Snakes, Salamanders, Frogs, Much More

Scott Moody and a sandhill crane

 Ohio Biological Survey Recognizes Moody’s Teaching and Research in Natural History and Zoology Dr. Scott Moody, Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at Ohio University, received the 2021 Herbert Osborn Award from the Ohio Biological Survey on Feb. 27. The Ohio Biological Survey is a consortium of colleges, universities, museums, […]

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March 3, 2021 at 2:06 pmNews Research

Hanisch Investigates the Value of Equality – Theoretically and Practically

Dr. Christoph Hanisch

“Most people living in democratic societies agree that they are committed to the moral and political value of ‘equality.’ However, when we ask them what this commitment exactly amounts to, and what political and social implications they endorse based on it, we get radically divergent and sometimes even incompatible answers,” […]

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February 26, 2021 at 1:51 pmResearch