Post Tagged with: "faculty in the news"

Popular Science writes about research by Dr. Christopher R. France, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Ohio University, in a story headlined, “Why the sight of blood knocks us out.” A vial of blood is a key diagnostic tool in modern medicine. But for about 1 in 25 people, a blood draw […]

Research by Dr. Jana Houser showing tornadoes forming from the ground up, with implications for tornado predictions, was featured in several prestigious news outlets. Houser presented new research at the American Geophysical Union’s conference that showed the commonly-held theory that tornadoes spawn from the clouds down is likely incorrect. In […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, authored a column in Forbes headlined “Are University Presidents Paid Too Little or Too Much?” Higher education recently has been confronted with falling enrollments, increasing financial uncertainty (as evidenced by credit downgrades by Moody’s and Fitch) and falling public support. […]

Four Ohio University faculty are among the Ohio Magazine’s  “2018 Excellence in Education Honorees.” Kelly S. Johnson, Ph.D. Biological Sciences Ohio University Sami Kahn, Ph.D. Teacher Education Ohio University Stephen Scanlan, Ph.D. Sociology & Anthropology Ohio University Frank M. LoSchiavo, Ph.D. Psychology Ohio University Zanesville

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, authored a column in Forbes headlined “The Academic Leisure Class: The Underutilization Of College Resources.” Nearly 120 years ago the eccentric sociologist/economist Thorstein Veblen wrote his Theory of the Leisure Class.  A strong case can be made that today, higher education […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, was quoted in a story in the Texas Monitor headlined “Small private colleges are shrinking and struggling.” Some university finance experts say those cutbacks are indicators of problems endangering small colleges around the country. “You can argue that there has […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, authored a column in Forbes headlined “It’s Location, Location And Location.” In evaluating real estate, it is often claimed it’s all “location, location and location.” The folks at CollegeVine have come up with an interesting list of America’s 10 most […]