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Scanlan Presents on Food Security and Sustainable Societies at Annual Meeting

Dr. Stephen Scanlan

Dr. Stephen Scanlan, Associate Professor of Sociology, presented “Food Security and Achieving Sustainable Societies through Female Empowerment” at the 2017 annual meeting of the North Central Sociological Association in Indianapolis in March. Scanlan teaches classes that include Environmental Sociology, Poverty, Social Movements, and a capstone in Environmental Justice and Inequality. […]

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March 17, 2017 at 2:00 pmResearch

Physicists Author Paper to Unlock Secrets of Graphene

Drs. Nancy Sandler and Daiara Faria and doctoral student Dawei Zhai

New insight into flexible material one atom thick will help scientists to untangle key intrinsic properties of graphene not easily understood until now. Graphene, a crystalline slice of graphite (a form of carbon), is perhaps one of the most important materials being studied worldwide. Ohio University Associate Professor Dr. Nancy […]

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March 13, 2017 at 6:00 amNews Research

Li Chairs Panel and Presents on Chinese Dream and Reform at International Conference

Dr. Jieli Li

Dr. Jieli Li, Professor of Sociology in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University, chaired a panel on “Chinese Dream” and reform and presented a research paper on “Wallerstein’s World System and Challenges of ‘Chinese Dream and Peaceful Rise’” at the 22nd Association of Chinese Professors of Social […]

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February 23, 2017 at 9:18 amResearch

Duschinski Chairs Panel, Presents at American Anthropological Association

Dr. Haley Duschinski

Dr. Haley Duschinski, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture, chaired a panel on “Political Dramas and the Politics of Evidence” for the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association in November 2016. The theme […]

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February 21, 2017 at 3:43 pmResearch

Waterbury Authors Article on ‘National Minorities in an Era of Externalization’

Dr. Myra Waterbury

Dr. Myra Waterbury authored an article on “National Minorities in an Era of Externalization: Kin-State Citizenship, European Integration, and Ethnic Hungarian Minority Politics” in the journal Problems of Post-Communism. Waterbury is Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio University. Waterbury’s article Abstract: This article investigates how two processes of externalization—deeper […]

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February 18, 2017 at 3:57 pmResearch

New Sandal Book | Religious Leaders and Conflict Transformation

Dr. Nukhet Sandal. Photo by Ben Siegel

Dr. Nukhet Sandal published a new book, Religious Leaders and Conflict Transformation: Northern Ireland and Beyond  from Cambridge University Press. Sandal is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of War & Peace Studies Program at Ohio University. Sandal’s book investigates the role of religion in contemporary political conflicts, based on her […]

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February 18, 2017 at 3:47 pmResearch

Psychology Alum Bunford Authors paper on Neural Reactivity to Angry Faces, Treatment

Ohio University alum Dr. Nora Bunford ’16Ph.D. co-authored a paper in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology titled “Neural Reactivity to Angry Faces Predicts Treatment Response in Pediatric Anxiety.” Bunford, who earned Ph.D. in Psychology from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University, is a predoctoral intern at […]

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February 18, 2017 at 2:18 pmAlumni Research