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Physicists Uncover Secrets of the Weak Force

Julie Roche and Paul King

Ohio University Physics & Astronomy Associate Professor Julie Roche and Research Assistant Professor Paul King contributed to a 12-year collaborative effort of more than 100 scientists, in an experiment termed “Q-weak,” to provide a precision test of the weak force, one of four fundamental forces in nature. The group’s breakthrough […]

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May 11, 2018 at 4:43 pmResearch

Wyatt Sends Seeds to Space, Conducts Educational Outreach on Earth

Dr. Sarah Wyatt outside Porter Hall

By Jessica Vierling-West From Compass Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Ohio University, is recognized as an expert in gravitational and space biology. Using cellular and molecular approaches, she examines how plants sense and respond […]

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May 10, 2018 at 5:09 pmResearch

Duschinski Co-Edits ‘Resisting Occupation in Kashmir’

Duschinski Co-Edits ‘Resisting Occupation in Kashmir’

Dr. Haley Duschinski, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture, co-edited a book titled Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (University of Pennsylvania Press). “Resisting Occupation in Kashmir presents new ways of thinking and writing about Kashmir that cross conventional boundaries and point toward alternative ways […]

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May 10, 2018 at 8:58 amResearch

Martin’s Poem ‘Iraq Good’ Wins Pushcart Prize

Hugh Martin

by Kristin Distel Graduate student Hugh Martin’s poem, “Iraq Good,” has been published in The Cincinnati Review and selected as a winner of the prestigious Pushcart Prize. Martin, a doctoral student in Creative Writing, is studying nonfiction at OHIO. The poem reflects on Martin’s own experience as a soldier in […]

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May 10, 2018 at 8:29 amResearch

History Student Receives Grant for Research at Army Heritage Center

Alexander Lovelace, Ph.D. candidate

Alexander Lovelace, a History doctoral student at Ohio University, received a 2018 General and Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgeway Military History Research Grant from the U.S. Army Military History Institute. The grant program is designed to support “on-site research at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle, Pa., on subjects that […]

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May 7, 2018 at 11:19 amNews Research

Sarr Receives Baker Fund Grant for Research on Liberated Africans (Creoles) of West Africa

Dr. Assan Sarr

Dr. Assan Sarr, Assistant Professor in the History Department, is one of five Spring 2018 awardees of the John C. Baker Fund award. Sarr received $12,000 to support research on his second book project, titled “Liberated Africans (Creoles) of West Africa: The Forster Family of Bathurst (Gambia) and its Diaspora […]

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May 3, 2018 at 12:27 pmResearch

NQPI Graduate Student Receives Nepalese Student Scholarship

NQPI Graduate Student Receives Nepalese Student Scholarship

By Raymond Humienny NQPI editorial intern Bishal Bhattarai, an Ohio University condensed matter physics Ph.D. student, was awarded the 2017-18 Vishwa S. Shukla Memorial Scholarship. Bhattarai is working under the direction of Distinguished Professor of Physics Dr. David Drabold, a Nanoscale & Quantum Phenomena Institute member. Bhattara is the author of […]

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May 2, 2018 at 4:34 pmNews