Students in the News

  “I am an MFA dropout,” writes Maggie Messitt, a doctoral student in Ohio University’s Creative Writing non-fiction program. Her column “In Defense of the Low-Res MFA” appears on the Brevity blog. …Still, I was convinced that graduate school was my next step. I wanted to tell true stories. After […]

Aaron Brown, a doctoral student in History and a fellow with the Contemporary History Institute, published an article on “Along with a Fresh Start in Cuba, We Need a Fresh Start in Mexico” at the History News Network. American leaders have long understood the United States’ southern neighbor to be […]

National Geographic quotes Ohio University’s Ashley Morhardt, a doctoral student in Biological Sciences, in a story on “How Did Long-Necked Dinosaurs Drink Without Getting Dizzy?” Morhardt has been studying Dr. Larry Witmer’s anatomy lab for five years and will be graduating this summer. Many of us have gotten dizzy when […]

Two Ohio University meteorology students who were WOWK interns were interviewed in a WBOY report as they were helping on StormFest, a partnership between California University of Pennsylvania and the Carniege Science Center, which provides students a hands-on earth science learning experiment. Jensen Hufnagel, StormFest 2015 chair said, “It’s basically […]

Creative Writing graduate student Micah McCrary published two pieces recently. He is a doctoral student in the Creative Writing program at Ohio University. McCrary is a contributor to Bookslut and The Nervous Breakdown. His essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, MAKE, Circumference, Identity […]

History student C.J. Fogarty has announced he’s running for Athens City Council, reports the Athens News. A second Ohio University student has announced his intention to run as a Republican for an at-large Athens City Council seat this year. C.J. Fogarty, 19, announced Tuesday that he will seek to run […]

Blogger Derek Lowe writes about a journal article on “Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Structure Elucidation of Peptide b2 Ions” by Ohio University researchers Pengyuan Liu and Dr. Hao Chen of the Center for Intelligent Chemical Instrumentation, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and the Edison Institute of Biotechnology at Ohio University. […]