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Schoen Contributes to Edited Volume on Transnational Significance of U.S. Civil War

Dr. Brian Schoen. Photo courtesy of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission

Dr. Brian Schoen‘s “Southern Wealth and Global Profits: Cotton, Economic Culture, and the Coming of the Civil War” will appear in The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War, edited by Jörg Nagler, Don Doyle, and Marcus Graeser (Palgrave-Macmillan Press, 2017). Schoen is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University. The chapter examines […]

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August 26, 2016 at 7:08 amResearch

Phillips Co-Edits ‘Supporting Graduate Student Writers’

Phillips Co-Edits ‘Supporting Graduate Student Writers’

Dr. Talinn Phillips, Assistant Professor of English, co-edited Supporting Graduate Student Writers: Research, Curriculum, and Program Design, which was published by University of Michigan Press this summer. The goal of this collected volume is to explore roles that L2 writing specialists, IEP directors and instructors, writing center administrators, and others […]

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August 5, 2016 at 3:38 pmResearch

Zionkowski Authors Women and Gift Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Zionkowski Authors Women and Gift Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Dr. Linda Zionkowski, Professor of English, authored a book on Women and Gift Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Routledge 2016). This book analyzes why the most influential novelists of the long 18th century centered their narratives on the theory and practice of gift exchange. Throughout this period, fundamental shifts in economic […]

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August 5, 2016 at 2:36 pmResearch

Updated ‘Multiple-Goal Pursuit Model’ Describes How We Decide What Goals to Pursue

Dr. Jeffrey Vancouver

Dr. Jeffrey B. Vancouver, Professor and Byham Chair in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, co-authored an article that expands his “multiple-goal pursuit model” by including processes that can handle complex information and different types of goals one might choose to pursue or avoid. The article “An Integrative Formal Model of Motivation and Decision Making: The […]

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June 22, 2016 at 2:27 pmResearch

Vancouver, Graduate Students Publish on Using Computational Model for Job Performance

Dr. Jeffrey Vancouver

Dr. Jeffrey B. Vancouver, Professor and Byham Chair in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, co-authored an article on “Using a Computational Model to Understand Possible Sources of Skews in Distribution of Job Performance” in Personnel Psychology. His co-authors are Xiaofei Li, graduate student at Ohio University; Justin M. Weinhardt ’11M, ’13Ph.D., an Ohio University alum […]

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June 22, 2016 at 1:33 pmAlumni Research

Lein’s New Book Addresses ‘Futures Research and Environmental Sustainability’

Dr. James Lein

Dr. James Lein, Professor of Geography at Ohio University, has a new book, Futures Research and Environmental Sustainability: Theory and Method, due out in December. The new book: Brings together material not previous integrated into a single work Offers a detailed and complete treatment of the subjects Emphasizes useful information and […]

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June 20, 2016 at 7:11 pmResearch

Tomeo, Rosenthal Paper Looks at Differing Tree Responses to Acid Rain Conditions

Nicholas Tomeo and David Rosenthal

Graduate student Nicholas Tomeo and Dr. David Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology at Ohio University, are co-authors on Fast-growing Acer rubrum differs from slow-growing Quercus alba in leaf, xylem and hydraulic trait coordination responses to simulated acid rain in Tree physiology. Their co-authors are Juliana S. Medeiros […]

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June 14, 2016 at 4:45 pmResearch