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By Corinne Colbert When one thinks “social network,” it’s easy to envision Facebook posts or LinkedIn connections. When Dr. Ted Welser thinks “social network,” he sees the Industrial Revolution. Welser, Assistant Professor of Sociology, specializes in studying how people represent themselves and relate to others on the internet. He compares […]

Dr. Paul Patton, Anthropology faculty member, is presenting “How the ‘Hopewell’ Built Their World: Middle Woodland Period Domestic Landscape Management and Modification in the Ohio Valley” at the Athens County Historical Society and Museum Oct. 9. His presentation is for Ohio Archaeology Month.

Three current members of the Ohio University Creative Writing community saw their essays listed as Notable Essays in the latest edition of Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Essays. Current Ph.D. candidate Kelly Sundberg was listed for her essay “Like Mourners’ Bread,” published in Slice; English and Creative Writing Post-Doc Alison Stine […]

Dr. Sergio Ulloa, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Dr. Nancy Sandler, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, traveled to Brazil during the 2013-14 academic year to participate in several conferences.: They will give several lectures at conferences in Brazil in September 2013. They co-organized several of the events, including a […]

Michael McLaughlin, a Mathematics student in the College of Arts & Sciences, presents an Undergraduate Math Seminar, “Polarizations with Respect to Real Hypersurfaces—Experience and Math from an REU,” on Wednesday, Oct. 2, from 4:10 to 05:05 p.m. in Morton 122. “Opportunities for undergraduate research in mathematics can seem scarce or […]

By Corinne Colbert  In his famous “Checkers” speech, Richard Nixon—then a senator from California and Dwight Eisenhower’s troubled running mate in the 1952 presidential election—downplayed his connection to a cabal of extremely wealthy donors. He portrayed himself as a middle-class guy whose wife wore “a respectable Republican cloth coat” and […]

Dr. Peggy Zoccola, Assistant Professor of Psychology, appears in the “Real women, real-world advice” section an article in the October 2013 edition of Good Housekeeping with simple advice from her recent study on how dwelling on stressful events can increase inflammation in the body. “If you only do one thing […]