Archive for May, 2015

Dr. Deborah Thorne, Associate Professor of Sociology at Ohio University, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal post on “What’s Behind Bankruptcy Lawsuits Over College Tuition?” by Katy Stech. Bankruptcy trustees are suing universities—and sometimes, college students themselves—to take back tuition that had been paid years before as part of […]

Ohio University alum Kirstie Zontini is the new morning meteorologist for WHIO TV and Radio, reports the Dayton Daily News. She is part of WHIO’s expanded Storm Center 7 team of “six fully-accredited meteorologists focusing on local weather.” WHIO is “expanding to provide 24/7 weather coverage on air, online, in […]

Graduate student Sarah Minor won first place in Hotel Amerika’s TransGenre Writing Contest for her essay “Nest.” Minor is a doctoral student in the Creative Writing nonfiction program in the English Department at Ohio University. Her work will be published in Hotel Amerika Volume 14, coming Winter 2016. About Hotel […]

By Lori Price Amiculus: A Secret History is a new character’s view of the fall of Rome. It all started out as a 10-page project in a scriptwriting class when Travis Horseman ’99 was an undergraduate student at Ohio University. His major was Acting and Theater, but he also had […]

From Compass “It’s a little horrifying,” joked Commencement speaker Thomas Vander Ven during the May 1 Graduate Commencement at Ohio University. “I’m live in concert at The Convo.” Vander Ven had the graduates laughing as he delivered one-liners and his Top Eight pieces of advice: Tell your mentors what they […]

From Compass Dr. Samuel Crowl, Ohio University Trustee Professor of English, was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at Ohio University’s May 2 afternoon Commencement ceremony. Crowl was also the commencement speaker, and he touched upon the history of Ohio University and how alumni carry on the traditions set forth […]

The College of Arts & Sciences invites applications for Faculty Learning Communities for the 2015-16 academic year. Faculty Learning Communities are interdisciplinary faculty groups engaged in an active, collaborative, semester- or year-long initiative. Proposals for the Faculty Learning Communities to be sponsored in 2015-16 should focus on a topic within: […]