Archive for June, 2013

Dr. Steve Miner, Professor of History and Director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences, presented a paper at a conference on Women in Warfare: From Troy to the Trenches in June at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict […]

A South Bend Tribune editorial  on “What’s a public university president worth” quotes Dr. Richard Vedder, a Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences: A 2007 study by the American Association of University Professors said that compensation for public and private college and university presidents, […]

  By Thomas McKenzie ’13 Second Lieutenant, U.S. Air Force, 21st Operational Weather Squadron at Kapaun Air Station, Germany This past November, my detachment commander reported that my first Active Duty Air Force assignment will be at Kapaun Air Station, Germany. I was both excited and nervous, as I immediately […]

High in the towering Andes Mountains of Peru, Professor Hugh Iltis was on his hands and knees looking for the haze filter that had fallen off his camera. Like Gulliver amid the Lilliputians, he stared at a miniaturized world through his hand lens. The year was 1962. The tiny plant […]

By Jennifer (Shutt) Bowie In 1968, Dr. George Weckman became an assistant professor in Ohio University’s Department of Philosophy. This spring semester, some 45 years later, two undergraduate students were recognized with special prizes that honors Weckman’s years of teaching in the College of Arts & Sciences. Weckman was instrumental […]

“Hannah Boesinger, a 2013 Hudson graduate, decided to continue her academic and basketball careers at Ohio University in Athens last month,” the Hudson Tub-Times reported June 16. Boesinger originally signed a national letter of intent to attend Youngstown State University last fall. When she signed at Youngstown State, she planned […]

“On a sunny and memorable day in 1979, I stood in the post office in Manchester Center, Vermont, and unwrapped the package containing the advance copy of my first book, Old Yellowstone Days. As I stood there staring at it in wonder, I realized that with its publication I had […]