Post Tagged with: "faculty in the news"

A Diverse Issues in Higher Education article on “Experts: ‘Opportunity Gap’ Key Impediment to Black Male Academic Achievement” quoted Dr. Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science, extensively. In a report on the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education last week, Autumn A. Arnett’s article asked, “What if the […]

Dr. Eric LeMay, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing: Nonfiction, reads from  his latest book,  In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments, on Oct. 6 at Marshall University. The Huntington News reports: “LeMay has taught writing at Harvard, Columbia and the University of Chicago. He is on the faculty of the […]

A Farm and Dairy article on “American chestnut on the comeback trail” quotes Dr. Brian McCarthy, Professor of Forest Ecology and Associate Dean for Faculty, Graduate Studies and Research in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. Dr. Brian C. McCarthy, an environmental and plant biology professor at […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, wrote an Aug. 25 article for National Review on “Subsidized Decline: Federal tuition-support programs harm students, colleges, and the economy.” “A political storm is brewing in Washington over the consequences […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, will speak at the National Press Club on Sept. 10. His topic for the NPC Newsmakers program will be: Why are college and university costs escalating so rapidly? He will […]

By Lori Bauer College of Arts & Sciences At what may be the oldest home site uncovered in Southeastern Ohio, people who lived about 4,000 years ago were mostly hunters and gatherers. But they built a home site not far from Athens and stayed awhile. Students archaeologists spent this summer […]

Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Ohio University Professor of Physics, recently traveled to the University of Padua in Italy, where Galileo Galilei taught almost 400 years ago. Hicks writes about seeing the hall where Galileo lectured in his Aug. 3 column “Italian trip reminds of Galileo’s many discoveries” in the Columbus Dispatch. […]