Stories tagged with: Ohio Today - Winter 2020
A resource for recovery
June 26, 2020 Small businesses, the economic backbone of southeastern Ohio communities, were immediately threatened in the early days of the pandemic. Where did they turn for help?
Aid in action
June 26, 2020 For OHIO’s medical and nursing students and recent graduates, the COVID-19 crisis has provided an up-close look at real-life crisis response—and the chance to contribute in a powerful way.
The soul within
June 26, 2020 Since 2007, this annual project in the School of Visual Communication—a combined experience of VICO 3921, Synthesis Storytelling for Visual Communication, and VICO 4188, Interactive Capstone: Advanced Interactive Media—has served as a way for students with different skillsets to experiment with various forms of storytelling and learn how to problem solve on the fly.
VR tech puts more heart into health care
February 22, 2020 OHIO experts’ immersive VR simulation shows how bias can obstruct patients’ access to care—and lets providers practice their response.
Medium meets machine
February 21, 2020 For this issue’s theme, Ohio Today searched OHIO’s Athens Campus for where and how tech is used. We found it in a most unexpected place.
More human
February 21, 2020 In February 2011, two of Jeopardy!’s top contestants were bested by an unlikely and wholly new kind of opponent—a machine.
Capture this
February 21, 2020 A Photographer’s Guide to Ohio, Volumes 1 & 2 is, at its core, a series of recommended places for picture taking provided by a professional, experienced photographer who has logged over a million driving miles across the state in search of natural and human-built beauty.
The 21st-century classroom
February 20, 2020 The first question that Larry Hess asks faculty seeking his help integrating technology into their coursework is, “If you ran into a student who took your course five to seven years from now, what would you want them to remember from your class?”
Must-Have Tech: Then & Now
February 20, 2020 From typewriters to laptops, rotary phones to smartphones, OHIO’s students are always in step with cutting-edge tech. No matter the device at their fingertips, Bobcats over the decades still use tech for the same reasons.
From Idea to Shelf
February 20, 2020 OHIO’s Technology Transfer Office shepherds inventions to market
Flipping the switch on infection
February 20, 2020 Most bacterial infections follow a similar path: you get sick, a doctor prescribes antibiotics that target the infection, you get better. But what if scientists could switch off the infection before it started?
Last Word: Zijian Diao
February 19, 2020 Zijian Diao, a professor of mathematics at Ohio University Eastern Campus, has spent his career researching applied mathematics in fields like quantum computing astronomy and speech translation systems. Ohio Today sat down with Diao to learn about his personal side, which includes poetry, firecrackers, and “seeing into the future.”
