Magazine

The October issue of Campus Safety magazine featured an article on AU education associate professor Amy Klinger's research on School Bomb Threats. The article was titled "Study Reveals Sharp Increase in School Bomb Threats." A school safety expert, Klinger earlier this year released research that shows a dramatic increase in school-based bomb threat incidents both over the last few years and specifically during the 2015-16 academic year.       

Newsweek magazine printed an opinion piece article by Roger Beckett, executive director of the Ashbrook Center. Beckett wrote the article, titled 'Where Did Christopher Columbus Land in the New World," for Columbus Day. The article features a series of questions and tests people's knowledge of Columbus and other explorers who ventured into the unknown and changed the course of history.
 

The July 4 issue of Time Magazine has an article on Carlin Isles, who was an AU student athlete for two years and is now on the U.S. Olympic Rugby team. The article, titled "Rugby? Yes, Rugby," talks about the sport of rugby and how Carlin Isles and his "rocket shoes" are making the U.S. an unlikely contender in the Olympic sport. The article notes that Isles played football and ran track at Ashland University.

Professor of Chemistry ​Dr. Jeff Weidenhamer has been quoted in the publication, Chemistry World. Weidenhamer was quoted in an article titled, Cadmium and lead in costume jewelery prompt concern." Chemistry World is an effort of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK). The article can be seen at:

John Dowdell, director of Gill Center Outreach, was quoted extensively in an Inside Higher Education article titled "College for Convicts." Dowdell, who runs the correctional education program at AU, also serves as co-editor of The Journal of Correctional Education. AU's program is the oldest postsecondary correctional program in the U.S.