Archive for December, 2014

After more than a year of preparation, Ohio University’s Team Gravitron plants-and-gravity experiment launches for the International Space Station this week aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. As the Falcon blasts off at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL, the Ground Control Team at Ohio University in Athens, […]

Dr. J. Allyn Rosser, Associate Professor of English at Ohio University, was featured on PBS Newshour’s Weekly Poem feature on Dec. 8 about her new book Mimi’s Trapeze. Mimi’s Trapeze, a new book by J. Allyn Rosser, starts with a quote by Balzac in the original French. The poet translates […]

By Amanda Hayes Doctoral student in Composition and Rhetoric at Ohio University Published as “Splintered Literacies,” the December 2014 edition of the National Council of Teacher of English journal College Composition and Communication Writing and literacy are splintered worlds in Appalachia. My family resides on a ridge of woods and […]

By Rachel Sayers From Compass Welcoming in the New Year will be a bit different this year for Alexis Chambers and Alexis Apparicio, two Ohio University Political Science students who have been chosen to visit Israel as part of the Jewish National Fund’s Caravan for Democracy. The trip, which will […]

Dr. Ain Simpson, a post-doc research associate in Psychology at Ohio University, published a journal article on “Different relational models underlie prototypical left and right positions on social issues.” The article is in the Nov. 14 issue of the European Journal of Social Psychology. Abstract: Social issues are important dividing […]

Ohio University alum Jami Bishop ’00 has been appointed magistrate in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court, according to the Youngstown Vindicator. Bishop earned a BA in Sociology-Pre-Law with a minor in Political Science from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. Bishop, a Barberton native, served as a […]

Ohio University alum Robert Hedges ’70, ’72M announced that he is running for Lancaster City Council President, according to the Eagle-Gazette. Hedges earned a B.S. in Mathematics and a M.S. in Geological Sciences from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. LANCASTER – City Councilman Robert Hedges on […]