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Changing Minds About Climate Policy Can Be Done - Sometimes
Simply communicating the benefits is not enough
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Some open-minded people can be swayed to support government intervention on climate change – but only if they are presented…

Hopf Wins Jervis-Schroeder Award for Mershon-Supported Book
Former Mershon Center affiliate Ted Hopf has received the Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award for Reconstructing the Cold War: The Early Years, 1945-1958. Presented by the…

Nisbet Awarded $45,000 Grant From Office of Outreach and Engagement
Mershon affiliate Erik Nisbet, assistant professor of communication, has won a 2013 Engagement Impact Grant from the Office of Outreach and Engagement at The Ohio State University. The $45,…

Rovner’s ‘Fixing the Facts’ Selected for Furniss Book Award
Joshua Rovner, associate professor of strategy and policy at U.S. Naval War College, is winner of the Furniss Book Award for Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of…

Coleman, Hoffmann Win Ohio State Teaching Awards
Two Mershon affiliates have won the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching this year -- Mathew Coleman, associate professor of geography, and David Hoffmann, professor of history.…

Breyfogle Awarded Multiyear Grant to Study Environmental History in Russia
Mershon affiliate Nicholas Breyfogle is one of a team of transnational researchers about to embark on a challenging, far flung adventure.
Six top scholars in diverse fields - history,…

Mershon-Sponsored Research Dramatized on Silver Screen
Film aficionados may have seen the movie "No" which opened at the Drexel this week. "No" is a Chilean film that dramatizes the 1988 plebiscite that brought the Pinochet dictatorship to an end. It…

Cohen Wins Competitive Radcliffe Fellowship
Mershon affiliate Amy Cohen has been selected as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow for the 2013-14 academic year. This extremely competitive program provides a one-year fellowship at the…

30 Books Highlight Faculty Publications for 2010-12
Faculty members at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies have always been among the most productive at The Ohio State University. In 2010-12, they published 30 books, edited 10…