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Muhammad Presents at Conference Black Radicalism in the United States

Dr. Robin D. Muhammad

Dr. Robin Muhammad joined more than 80 activists, scholars, and artists in New York City for a two-day conference on Black Radicalism in the United States. Muhammad is Associate Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Ohio University. The conference brought together scholars and activists dealing with the history […]

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May 2, 2018 at 2:59 pmResearch

Miles, Gilbert Article Suggests Lizards Won’t Adapt Fast Enough during Environmental Change

Dr. Donald Miles

Dr. Donald Miles and Anthony Gilbert are co-authors on a paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society on “Thermal physiology and thermoregulatory behaviour exhibit low heritability despitegenetic divergence between lizard populations,” which suggests that evolutionary change in the brown anole lizard is unlikely to keep pace with current rates of […]

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May 2, 2018 at 11:22 amResearch

Benham Publishes Book Chapter on Sympathy and War Literature

English department alumni and post-doctoral fellow Renee Benham

by Kristin Distel M. Renee Benham’s chapter “The Death of Sympathy in Great War Literature” is part of the medical humanities collection Medicine, Health, and Being Human, edited by Lesa Scholl of the University of Queensland, Australia. This collection is part of the series Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities, released […]

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April 27, 2018 at 9:03 amAlumni Research

Baker Peace Dissertation Fellowship Awarded to History’s Mayhew

Michelle Mayhew

Doctoral student Michelle Mayhew in the History Department received the 2018-19 Baker Peace Dissertation Fellowship. The award is funded by the John and Elizabeth Baker Peace Endowment, created in the 1980s to fund teaching, scholarship, and conferences at Ohio University that promote the study of conflict and conflict resolution. Mayhew said […]

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April 26, 2018 at 7:58 pmNews Research

France Talks about Blood Donors at Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

France Talks about Blood Donors at Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

Dr. Christopher France, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, was invited to present at the Institute of Blood Transfusion at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Chengdu, China. His April 18 lecture was titled “Enhancing blood donor recruitment and retention.” Abstract: The presentation focused on more than 20 years of research […]

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April 26, 2018 at 5:23 pmResearch

Rattanasengchanh Awarded Contemporary History Institute’s Klinder Dissertation Fellowship

Phimmasone Michael Rattanasengchanh

The 2018-19 Klinder Dissertation Fellowship goes to Phimmasone Michael Rattanasengchanh, a doctoral student in the History Department. This year’s award marks the inauguration of the fellowship, whose endowment was established in the 1990s to fund a dissertation writing year for Ohio University doctoral students enrolled in the Contemporary History Institute Certificate […]

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April 24, 2018 at 9:29 pmAnnouncements Research

Jaramillo Places First in Society of Physics Students Research Conference

Dr. Douglas Clowe and senior Michael Jaramillo

Six Ohio University undergraduate Physics & Astronomy students presented an overview of their projects undertaken the previous summer, during the 2018 Society of Physics Students Research Conference held recently in Walter Hall. The presentations were reviewed by a panel of two faculty judges. Society of Physics (SPS) Faculty Adviser Dr. […]

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April 20, 2018 at 2:15 pmNews