Archive for August, 2013

Ohio University will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a key event in the Civil Rights Movement where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech, from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28, at Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. […]

The Charles J. Ping Institute for the Teaching of the Humanities presents a Saturday Workshop for Teachers featuring Lysistrata by Aristophanes, adaptation by Ellen McLaughlin, on Saturday, March 2, 2013, at Ohio University. The workshop leader is Dr. Tom Carpenter, the Charles J. Ping Professor of Humanities, Director of the […]

By Austin Stahl Climate change typically isn’t mentioned in the same sentence as security, but experts and policy makers are beginning to make the connection more frequently. Three Geography faculty members—Associate Professor Dr. Edna Wangui and Assistant Professors Dr. Thomas Smucker and Dr. Gaurav Sinha—are contributing to this growing body of […]

The Ohio University volleyball team was awarded an American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award on Aug. 7 for the 2012-13 academic year. The Bobcats have received the prestigious honor for four consecutive seasons. “I’m proud of our team’s work in the classroom,” head coach Ryan Theis said. “We make academics a […]

Dr. Larry L. Burmeister, Professor of Sociology at Ohio University, presented “Californication of the Korean Rice Market?” at the 2013 American Sociological Association meeting. His paper was part of a session on Development, Colonialism and Asia. Abstract: Agricultural trade disputes between the U.S. and South Korea over the opening of […]

By Rachel Thomas Honors Tutorial College student studying Classics in Rome Although, while I wandered about in Trastevere, it seemed my journeys would never end, my six weeks roaming soon came to a close. After an intense five weeks spent exploring both in class and out, a brief but intense […]

  “In the spring of 2003, Maggie Messitt stood in the centre of Acornhoek, South Africa—a village just over the imaginary line that once legally separated white and black—and saw a world unlike anything she had ever experienced, unlike the white community where she’d recently claimed a tent as her home, unlike […]