Post Tagged with: "faculty in the news"

Dr. G. Daniel Lassiter, Professor of Psychology, was referenced in a July 13 New York Times op-ed piece by Jennifer L. Mnookin  on “Can a Jury Believe What It Sees?” LOS ANGELES — LAST week the F.B.I., the Drug Enforcement Administration and other federal law enforcement agencies instituted a policy […]

A July 9 Wall Street Journal article quotes Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, about the collapse of the for-profit Corinthian Colleges Inc. WASHINGTON—The collapse of Corinthian Colleges Inc. is raising questions about the Obama administration’s aggressive handling of one of the country’s largest for-profit […]

Stephen Moore quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in a Heritage Foundation article on “Obama’s Economy: Where Did All The Young Workers Go?” Economists are scratching their heads trying to figure out a puzzle in this recovery: Why are young people not working? People […]

“Is there a connection between cloud formation and cosmic rays coming from galactic sources? This question has an impact on weather modeling, and new experiments are just starting to yield answers,” writes Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Ohio University Professor of Physics, in the June 29 Columbus Dispatch. “We know that clouds […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, was referenced in an op-ed by Stephen Moore in the Washington Examiner on “Why not boost teen employment with a training wage?” This is the time of year when teenagers scramble to land a summer job, but many states […]

“Some people describe a lonesome highway or the middle of a desert town—even a state like Ohio—as ‘the middle of nowhere.’ But for others, like Eric LeMay, no such place exists,” writes Jill Talbot in a discussion for New Books in Literature with the writer about his new book. There […]

Dr. Stephen Patterson, Associate Professor of Psychology, was the Father’s Day story on June 15 in the Athens Messenger. In a story on “Reflection of multi-generational parenting,” he talked about his 2-year-old twins and his older children. When it was discovered that Steve Patterson’s wife Connie was pregnant with twin […]