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07/24/2019
Reframe: Episode 58
The Profound Impact of Coaches
07/22/2019
Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Receives NSF Grant for New NMR Spectrometer
The Department was awarded a grant, entitled “MRI: Acquisition of a 400 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrometer at Miami University” for $295,750. This instrument will replace our 200 MHz and 300 MHz NMR’s, which are over 25 years old. The lead PI on the grant was C. Scott Hartley, who assembled a team of colleagues including Wei Liu, Meredith Erb, Michael Crowder, Dominik Konkolewicz, and others to justify the new instrument.
07/22/2019
Latin American students visit Oxford to share interdisciplinary and intercultural experiences with Miami faculty and students
Twenty students from Panama, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic will soon be wrapping up three weeks in Oxford as part of Miami's annual Study of United States Institutions (SUSI) program, sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the Department of Education
07/16/2019
Dr. Ellen Yezierski Awarded $1.9M NSF Grant
Ellen Yezierski, Professor of Chemistry, was recently awarded a 5-year, $1.9M NSF DRK-12 grant. The project aims to improve our knowledge of the ways in which conceptual understanding in high school chemistry is afforded and constrained by teachers’ use of dynamic, molecular-level visualizations.
07/09/2019
Make Youth Sport Less About Adults. More About Children.
Dr. Melissa Chase, Co-Author of Best Practice for Youth SportToday, youth sport is big business that’s become far more about the adults, which has led to a hyper-competitive culture that’s pushing children to become elite athletes at younger and younger ages
07/02/2019
Miami teams are recognized by the EPA in the National Student Design Expo
Two Miami University research projects were recognized by the EPA at the TechConnect World Innovation Conference in Boston, MA.
07/01/2019
Frontiers in the Gilded Ages
This book begins in an era when romantic notions of American frontiering overlapped with Gilded Age extractive capitalism. In the late nineteenth century, the U.S.-Mexican borderlands constituted one stop of many where Americans chased capitalist dreams beyond the United States.
06/27/2019
History meets sustainability for unique perspective on farming
The Institute for Food farm grows its first harvest.Each year, the office of liberal education awards the "Outstanding Interdisciplinary Perspective in Teaching" award to a faculty member engaged in bringing together several areas of research and teaching.
06/27/2019
New Education Program Helps Low-income Children Avoid the Summer Slide
A new partnership between Miami University and Hamilton’s Head Start program is helping local children stay ahead this summer. It’s called JUmp over the SUmmer Time (JUST).
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