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Thirteen OHIO campus spaces receive Experiential Spaces Designation

Ohio University’s Center for Advising, Career and Experiential Learning has announced that 13 spaces on campus have received its Experiential Spaces Designation for the 2022-2023 academic year.

Wilson Hall

2023 Spring Literary Festival set for March 29-30

The 2023 Spring Literary Festival is set for March 29-30 on the Athens Campus, featuring features authors Barrie Jean Borich, Denise Duhamel, and Megan Giddings.

The Burntwater Wall Hanging was part of Kennedy Museum of Art exhibit.

New Humanities in the Park display traces Native Americans' contributions to Ohio

A new display in Richland Avenue Park in Athens traces Indigenous Americans’ material and cultural contributions to Ohio, which was once home to 40 tribes.

Evan Schalon, portrait

Crane Graduate Fellowship helps Evan Schalon spend one more special year at OHIO

When Evan Schalon arrived in Athens, he was a long way from his hometown in Maryland. But when it was time to graduate, he jumped at the opportunity for one more year at Ohio University.

The Ohio University sundial

New courses explore global social change, animal-humans connections, and sociology careers

Three new spring courses tap into a theme of connecting with the world — connecting with employers, exploring the relationship between humans and animals, and exploring global social change.

The Berlin Wall, as seen from the East German side. German reunification occurred on Oct. 3, 1990.

Students can visit Berlin Wall, Nuremburg and more in May to study 'remembrance'

Students can study how contemporary societies use remembrance as a cultural tool in May while visiting sites in Germany and the Czech Republic connected to the Holocaust and World War II.

Emily McCarty making cavateddi and the final dish, Cavateddi al Ragù.

Food in Sicily students explore Sicilian culture, experience tasting and making local foods

Participants in the Food in Sicily study away program can earn six Ohio University credits, learn about the culture of food in Sicily, and get hands-on experience tasting and making Sicilian dishes.

Ohio University professors (left to right) Douglas Goetz, Stephen Bergmeier and Kelly McCall, who discovered a compound that can possibly help protect against a plethora of physiological and pathophysiological diseases.

Alumna Kelly McCall veered into a research career fighting autoimmune and inflammatory diseases

Kelly McCall thought she was headed to dentistry school. But as graduation loomed, she changed her major to biological sciences and found herself on a very different health-care related path.

The Ohio University sundial

2022-23 Presidential Research Scholars are explorers of human history and scientific discovery

Ohio University has named four professors as its 2022-23 Presidential Research Scholars: Neil Bernstein, Ronan Carroll, Katherine Jellison, and Patrick O’Connor.

The Wyatt lab at the ASGSR conference in Houston, where they presented their work.

Gbolaga Olanrewaju wins top graduate award, first place for poster at gravitational and space research conference

Gbolaga Olanrewaju won the top graduate student award and first place for his research poster at the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research meeting in Houston.

Nate Frimel

Army ROTC cadet Frimel selected to Top 10 Order of Merit List

General Antonio Munera, commander of United States Army Cadet Command which oversees Army ROTC, recognized Nate Frimel last week as the 10th best Army ROTC cadet in the nation.

Figure 1. Thought experiments comparing collisions in gas and mixed gasses under normal conditions. Figure (a) shows a random distribution of gases A and B in a sample volume traveling at a relative speed of vr in time t, and two possible distance d vs time trajectories. Figure (b) shows A and B diluted with C, and two possible trajectories between A and B. Where the flux of A is a function of time whose limit at infinity long time is used to calculate the collision frequency in the Smoluchowski rate model.

Jixin Chen discovers new reaction rate in solution, with implications for industrial, biological processes

While the world watches the soccer world cup, chemist Jixin Chen is studying another kind of "ball" and discovering that a 100-year-old collision theory doesn't stand up to 21st century calculations.

Cutler Hall

OHIO ranked among best in the world by US News & World Report

Ohio University was ranked among the top universities in the world by U.S. News & World Report in its new 2022-2023 Best Global Universities rankings.

Letitia Price

Letitia Lyneka Price named assistant director of the Ohio University Women’s Center

After a nationwide search, Ohio University announces that Letitia Lyneka Price has joined the Women's Center as its assistant director.

Riley Zielinski in the lab

29 students receive Provost Undergraduate Research Fund awards

The Ohio University Provost Undergraduate Research Fund (PURF) award program provided 29 students with a total of $40,446 in funding for their original research, scholarship and creative work this fall.

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