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Uhalde Presents Paper at Berlin Conference

Participants from the "Making Sense of the Oath" Conference held in Berlin, December 2016.

In December, Dr. Kevin Uhalde, Associate Professor of History, finished his grading and traveled to Berlin, Germany to participate in a conference titled “Making Sense of the Oath in Late Antiquity and the Earlier Middle Ages: Religious Act, Social Bond, Holy Sacrament.” Uhalde was invited to participate in this conference. […]

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January 23, 2017 at 2:26 pmResearch

Gonzalez-Vallejo Presents Research on Decision Difficulty at Universidad de Chile

Claudia González-Vallejo, Ohio University. "Examining aspects of decision difficulty with dynamic, pre-decisional measures in various contexts: consumer, gamble, and intertemporal choices."

Dr. Claudia Gonzalez-Vallejo, Associate Professor of Psychology at Ohio University, presented her research on decision difficulty in the Workshop of Management Science sponsored by the Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de Chile and the Institute of Complex Engineering Systems. The event took place in Puerto Varas, Chile, from Jan. 5-7, […]

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January 13, 2017 at 4:04 pmResearch

Ulloa, Alsharari Article Shows How Physical Properties Are ‘Contagious’

Abdulrhman Alsharari and Sergio Uloa

Gold is shiny, glass is transparent, and so on. But researchers at Ohio University and Louisiana State University have proven theoretically that it is possible to impart properties of one material onto another, by placing them in close proximity. Physical properties of materials can be contagious, according to work by […]

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December 10, 2016 at 11:13 amResearch

Ulloa Authors ‘Magnetic-field-induced Mixed-level Kondo Effect in Two-Level System’

Ulloa Authors ‘Magnetic-field-induced Mixed-level Kondo Effect in Two-Level System’

Dr. Sergio Ulloa, Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University, co-authored an article in Physical Review B on “Magnetic-field-induced mixed-level Kondo effect in two-level systems.” His co-authors are Arturo Wong of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Anh T. Ngo of Argonne National Laboratory. Abstract: We consider a two-orbital […]

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December 10, 2016 at 10:45 amResearch

Reynolds Brings Alden Library’s Special Collections to Paris and Berkeley

Reynolds Brings Alden Library’s Special Collections to Paris and Berkeley

by Kristin M. Distel Dr. Nicole Reynolds, Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, gave two conference presentations on Alden Library’s Special Collections and the Edmund Blunden library in summer 2016. Discovering Blunden Blunden, a World War I poet, avid book collector, literary critic, and Oxford Professor […]

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December 9, 2016 at 2:38 pmResearch

Graduate Student’s Debut Novel Receives Rave Reviews

Michelle Pretorius, creative writing doctoral student

by Kristin M. Distel Doctoral student Michelle Pretorius’ novel, The Monster’s Daughter, has received many glowing reviews from domestic and international outlets. The novel, Pretorius’s first, was published in July 2016 by Melville House and Audible. The Monster’s Daughter takes as one of its two main characters Alet Berg, a […]

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November 28, 2016 at 7:00 pmIn the News Research Students in the News

Kaufman Article: ‘Penal State’s Interventionist, Covert, and Negligent Modalities of Control’

Dr. Nicole Kaufman

Dr. Nicole Kaufman, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio University, co-authored an article on “Beyond Punishment: The Penal State’s Interventionist, Covert, and Negligent Modalities of Control” in Law & Social Inquiry, the journal of the American Bar Foundation. Her co-authors are Joshua Kaiser, a Law and Social Science Fellow at […]

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November 27, 2016 at 6:37 pmResearch