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Riley Rees receives Garden Club of America scholarship for summer research on carnation family

Riley Rees

From Ohio University News Riley Rees received a Garden Club of America scholarship for a summer research project in John Schenk’s lab studying the evolutionary history of carnations. Rees was awarded the 2022 Joan K. Hunt and Rachel M. Hunt Summer Scholarship in Field Botany for his project on Evolutionary […]

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April 8, 2022 at 3:20 pmNews Research

What Emily Marino didn’t expect to find in the lab

Emily Marino

From Ohio University News Getting Ready for Expo From Emily Marino’s first day as a Bobcat, she knew she would be spending a lot of time in a lab, conducting experiments, and writing her Honors Tutorial College senior thesis. What she didn’t know was that it would be so much […]

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April 6, 2022 at 11:21 amNews

Alexis Karolin is documenting Asian American and Pacific Islanders’ history as it happens

Alexis Karolin at the Mahn Center in Alden Library

Getting ready for Expo From Ohio University News When historians look back upon societal stress and tumult during the pandemic, they will find plenty of information about the national increase in hate crimes against Asian American and Pacific Islanders and how the Ohio University community came together to create support […]

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April 4, 2022 at 8:29 amNews Research

Winning Student Essays Explore Wide Range of History Topics

2021 prize winners and history majors (clockwise from top left) Holly Thompson, Eli Wanner, Justin Boyle, and Miranda Christy.

The Ohio University History Department awarded four undergraduate essays with this year’s Randolph Stone Prize. Each Randolph Stone Prize winner receives a cash award as well as recognition at the Annual Undergraduate History Conference. Justin Boyle originally wrote “New Mexican and Hawaiian Statehood: National Identity in Twentieth-Century America” as his […]

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March 25, 2021 at 4:20 pmIn Class News

Alumni News | Sue Ryu Publishes Study on Marginalized Neighborhood in Brazil

Sue Ryu with her mom, Won.

Ohio University alumna Sue Ryu ’20 published an article in the peer-reviewed Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography titled “Why We Love It Here: Exploration of Affection and Attachment in a Brazilian Urban Periphery.” “This research interprets the marginalized neighborhood of Serrinha as a place in the city of Florianópolis, Brazil, by examining […]

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March 24, 2021 at 4:16 pmAlumni Research

Call for Papers: 14th Annual Undergraduate History Conference

Call for Papers: 14th Annual Undergraduate History Conference

The Ohio University History Department invites proposals for its 14th Annual Undergraduate History Conference. This year’s conference will be take place via Microsoft Teams on Friday, March 26. Why participate? The History Conference offers students an opportunity to publish their work in a conference format, engage peers and faculty members […]

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February 16, 2021 at 11:44 amAnnouncements News

Annual History Essay Competition Deadline is March 1

Bentley Annex, home of the History Department at Ohio University

Each year the Ohio University History Department awards the Randolph Stone Prize to reward excellence in the writing of history. Undergraduate students of any major are invited to submit an essay, review, or research paper recently written for any OHIO History Department course. Entries are due Monday, March 1, 2021. […]

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February 15, 2021 at 12:30 pmAnnouncements In Class News