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College of Arts & Sciences students received 11 of the 24 Ohio University Student Enhancement Awards program announced in March. A total of $115,945 in funding was awarded for original research, scholarship and creative work. The Student Enhancement Awards are funded by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Creative […]

The History Department invites paper proposals for the 8th Annual Undergraduate History Conference. Paper proposals are due Monday, March 24. Deadline: Submit proposals to Dr. Michele Clouse (clousem@ohio.edu) by Monday, March 24. Proposals should be 200 words long and describe the topic of the paper, the thesis, and preliminary conclusions. […]

By Taylor Evans from Perspectives What do the characters Pi, Ponyboy, and Holden Caulfield have in common? Besides being the protagonists of three popular novels, they’re also the subject of Spencer Smith‘s student thesis. Smith, an English major in the Honors Tutorial College, examined narrative psychology in young adult literature. The […]

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Austin Way ’14, HTC Engineering Physics, received top honors at the recent 6th Annual Society of Physics Student Research Conference at Ohio University. His talk, “Fabrication of Photovoltaics,” was voted Best Presentation by a panel of faculty judges from the Department of Physics & […]

Biological Sciences students present their honors theses April 16-25. Outstanding College of Arts & Sciences students can earn departmental honors by conducting undergraduate research or projects with faculty mentors, complete with a thesis. Read more about departmental honors. Dr. Janet Duerr is Director of the Biological Sciences Honors Program. Dr. […]

The Eight Annual Undergraduate History Conference kicks off Wednesday, April 16, with a plenary talk by Dr. Jessica Roney at 5:30 p.m. in the Lindley Room at the Ohio University Inn. Student presentations follow in Thursday, April 17. Roney will discuss “Setting Up for Themselves: Voluntarism, Democracy & Citizenship in […]

Gravity. Actors Sandra Bullock and George Clooney provided a theatrical look at how humans might experience the lack of gravity in space. But what about plants? Humans have touched the moon and sequenced the human genome. But answers to how plants respond to gravity are just now being unlocked—by students […]