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College of Arts and Sciences Stories

M. Duane Nellis, ĢƵ University's 21st president

M. Duane Nellis gets lifetime achievement award for service to environment and higher education

From the Kansas Flint Hills to the Kalahari Desert, President Emeritus and Trustee Professor M. Duane Nellis has explored the world via planes, trains, automobiles—and satellites.

E.M. Tran, portrait

E.M. Tran's debut novel 'Daughters of the New Year' interweaves mother-daughter relationships with the Vietnamese zodiac

ĢƵ University alumna E.M. Tran's debut novel "Daughters of the New Year" has received raves from venues including the New York Times, Good Morning America, and Electric Literature.

Aerial photo of ĢƵ University

ĢƵ University joins the Midwest Semiconductor Network

ĢƵ University joins universities in ĢƵ, Michigan, Illinois and Indiana to form a coalition to address national needs in semiconductor and microelectronics.

Scott Moody with a Sandhill Crane in 2017.

University community mourns Biology Professor Emeritus Scott Moody

The ĢƵ University community mourns the passing of Associate Professor Emeritus Scott Moody, whose research and teaching affected students for more than four decades.

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Graduate students invited to register for Three Minute Thesis® Competition

Graduate students are invited to participate in the Three Minute Thesis® Competition, where they will have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance.

Dr. Eric Gorscak is still an explorer, shown here in the field.

Alumnus Eric Gorscak's 'inner kid' loves his career discovering deep-time dinosaurs and ecosystems

Professor Nancy Stevens substitute teaching in Eric Gorscak's undergraduate paleontology class might have been serendipity, but Gorscak didn't leave anything to chance.

Marissa Dyck demonstrates a necropsy on a bobcat that was killed on a road for ĢƵ University undergraduates who conducted necropsies in 2019 and 2020 on roadkill animals for the lab's research.

Marissa Dyck awarded American Society of Mammologists' highest award for a graduate student

Marissa Dyck was awarded the 2022 American Society of Mammologists Fellowship. Mammals — specifically carnivores such as lynx, wolves, bobcats, and coyotes — are the focus of Dyck's research.

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2023 Baker Peace Conference: A New Cold War? set for Feb. 23-24

Are we in a new Cold War? This is the theme of the Contemporary History Institute’s annual Baker Peace Conference taking place Feb. 23-24 in ĢƵ University’s Walter Rotunda.

Time series (left to right) showing two examples of how the random carbons in the artificial “coal” coalesce into graphite-like sheets under pressure and heat. The sheets aren’t perfectly flat because of the formation of a small number of five- and seven-member rings among the six-member rings.

ĢƵ University simulations on PSC supercomputer transform coal-like material to amorphous graphite and nanotubes

An OHIO physics team used the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center to simulate how coal might eventually be converted to valuable — and carbon-neutral — materials like graphite and carbon nanotubes.

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Thirteen OHIO campus spaces receive Experiential Spaces Designation

ĢƵ 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 ĢƵ

A new display in Richland Avenue Park in Athens traces Indigenous Americans’ material and cultural contributions to ĢƵ, 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 ĢƵ University.

The ĢƵ 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.

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