Archive for May, 2013

Ohio University Department of English Language and Literature Vol. 46, No. 5 Edited by David Sanders Publications Kelly Kathleen Ferguson, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in nonfiction, had her short story “The Texas Project” published in the New England Review, Vol. 33/No. 4. Scott Minar’s poem “Revisiting Snow Man” appeared in Crazyhorse last fall and was subsequently […]

Mentoring Ph.D. candidates goes well beyond scholarship and subject matter, says Dr. Amritjit Singh, Professor of English, who is helping to lead a conversation about “professionalization” in Ph.D. programs. At the most recent annual MELUS conference in Pittsburgh, Singh led a panel and participated in two others. These conversations included […]

Brandon M.  Llewellyn, one of the top 10 graduating seniors from Steubenville High School is headed to Ohio University to major in pre-law and political science, reports the Herald Star on May 16. Brandon M.  Llewellyn is the son of Lynnett and Ted Gorman of Steubenville and Chris Llewellyn of Mingo […]

Justin List ’04, ho teaches third though 12th grade Spanish at the Augusta Independent School System, was among the Kentucky teachers honored by Campbellsville University on May 11, as reported by the Ledger Independent on May 21. Campbellsville University began the Excellence in Teaching Awards Program in 1987 to recognize the […]

Isabella Sparhawk ’17 will know her way around a lab when she arrives at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences in the fall. She’s been working in a corporate chemistry lab her senior year of high school. She filed a patent application for an antimicrobial coating using silvernano particles to […]

Ohio University President Roderick J. McDavis bestowed the 2013 Distinguished Professor Award on Dr. Tom Carpenter at the Graduate Commencement ceremony on May 3. Carpenter is Director of the Ohio University Ping Institute for the Teaching of Humanities. He is also the Charles J. Ping Professor of Humanities at the University […]

By Amista Lipot More than 60 Ohio University alumni attended the Washington Policy Forum in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 14 at the Capitol Visitor Center. The event, focusing on cyber security and homeland defense, was the second in a series aimed at reconnecting alumni in the nation’s capital to […]