Stories tagged with: College of Arts and Sciences

Ghirmai Negash talks about censorship and liberation, the life of an African writer

July 7, 2021 7 min

For many African writers, censorship can entail a lived experience as well as a current threat, even for those who emigrated to the United States.

OHIO physicists are getting even closer to the Big Bang, thanks to a new way to examine light from the past

July 1, 2021 6 min

Ohio University physicists are using data from 20 years of ground-based observations of the night sky from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to tackle a fundamental physics question.

Sabrina Curran and Claire Terhune work on a lab table covered with fossils

Curran searches for clues to human dispersal into Europe along the Danube River

June 28, 2021 5 min

Early human ancestors 2 million years ago would have found a hospitable environment to enter Europe through southern Romania along the Danube River and its tributaries, says an OHIO anthropologist.

99 inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, 7 receive Wolfe Awards

June 28, 2021 8 min

Ninety-nine highly accomplished juniors and seniors were inducted into Ohio University's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this spring, and seven students shared the Thomas A. Wolfe Award.

Schoen will help elevate humanities in new Ping Institute professorship

June 18, 2021 7 min

Dr. Brian Schoen brings his expertise to his new role as the James Richard Hamilton/Baker and Hostetler Professor of the Charles J. Ping Institute for Teaching of the Humanities.

Emma Rice poses for a picture in the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), with the number 13 out of 30 total circuitries needed to build GRETA (Gamma Ray Energy Tracking Array)

OHIO Goldwater Scholar studies nuclear physics in national California lab

June 16, 2021 5 min

Ohio University student Emma Rice, an upcoming senior and physics major in the Honors Tutorial College, was recently named a 2021 Goldwater Scholar for her physics research.

Six Ohio University students, five alumni and professor selected as Fulbright Scholars

May 26, 2021 7 min

Six OHIO students, five alumni and a professor have been selected as recipients for the Fulbright Program.

Two pictures side by side, one of Dr. Nathaniel Szewczyk and the other of Dr. Sarah Wyatt in her lab.

Tiny seedlings and 3 million worms: Two OHIO experiments headed to International Space Station on June 3

May 26, 2021 6 min

When NASA's SpaceX Commercial Resupply Mission-22 launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 3, it will carry two Ohio University experiments to the International Space Station.

Faculty find home in Lindley Hall as Clippinger renovations begin

May 25, 2021 2 min

Faculty members whose offices are currently in Clippinger Hall will temporarily be relocated to Lindley Hall on College Green as part of the Clippinger Renovation Project.

Denis Flaschner sits behind a desk with a stack of books, Apple laptop, mug, with a window and wall of pictures and artwork behind him

'Hi. Remember me?' Student finishes honors thesis 15 years after leaving Athens

May 24, 2021 6 min

Denis Flaschner came to Ohio University as a first-year English major in 2000. He completed all his coursework with one exception: to graduate, he would need to complete a thesis project.

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Four faculty members chosen for MAC’s Academic Leadership Development Program

May 21, 2021 2 min

Four Ohio University faculty members have been chosen as the 2021-2022 Mid-American Conference (MAC) Academic Leadership Development Program (ADLP) Fellows.

Helen Zia talks to Athens community about contributions of Asians and Pacific Islanders to American culture

May 11, 2021 5 min

More than 100 people attended "Real Talk About Big Questions," the April 23 virtual event led by Dr. Ji-Yeung Jang, interim executive director for Global Affairs.

Dr. Myra Waterbury leads a seminar in comparative politics

Waterbury awarded Fulbright to study Hungary and ethnic identity in the European neighborhood

May 11, 2021 4 min

Dr. Myra Waterbury was recently named a Fulbright Scholar and will be headed to Budapest in the spring of 2022 to conduct research on Hungary's disparate populations.

Associate Provost for Faculty and Academic Planning Howard Dewald honored for eight years of dedicated service in the Provost’s Office

May 7, 2021 4 min

After 35 years of service at Ohio University, Howard Dewald has announced his intention to return to his roots as a professor of chemistry in the College of Arts and Science.

University community mourns Edwin Curmie Price Jr., alumnus and OHIO's first Black faculty member

May 7, 2021 6 min

Edwin Curmie Price Jr., an Ohio University alumnus and the University's first Black faculty member, passed away on April 23.

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