Archive for March, 2014

Race Cards: Political science students used six words or less on cards “to stage a conversation about race and just kind of illustrate for the theater students in the audience how complicated and convoluted and complex racial issues really can be,” said Jack Bryne. Acting It Out: Theater students produced […]

Ohio University alum Breanne N. Smith ’10 was named the Young Careerist winner during the Business and Professional Women’s Region 4 competition, reports the Zanesville Times Recorder. She will represent the region at the state competition April 12 in Columbus. Smith is the chief deputy of the Coshocton County Treasurer’s Office […]

By Jeff Worley From Perspectives To get a quick sense of who Dinty W. Moore is and where he is on the planet, take a deep breath and read from his self-styled online bio: “Dinty lives in Athens, Ohio, thefunkadelicious, hillbilly-hippie Appalachian epicenter of the locally-grown, locally-consumed, goats-are-for-cheese, paw-paws-are-for-eatin’, artisanal-salsa, our-farmers-market-rocks-the-hills sub-culture, where […]

By Taylor Evans from Perspectives What do the characters Pi, Ponyboy, and Holden Caulfield have in common? Besides being the protagonists of three popular novels, they’re also the subject of Spencer Smith‘s student thesis. Smith, an English major in the Honors Tutorial College, examined narrative psychology in young adult literature. The […]

Electra Information Systems (Electra), an innovative provider of proven software solutions for the asset management industry, has named Scott Rhodes ’80—an Ohio University alum—as its Chief Operating Officer, reports Virtual Strategy Magazine. Rhodes earned a B.S. in Physics from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. Bringing more than 30 […]

Nearly four decades after the Khmer Rouge genocide, two Ohio University faculty and six undergraduate students are headed to Cambodia this summer to study how the society remembers and reconciles its history with its present. “In the late 1970s, Cambodian society was wracked by the rule of the Khmer Rouge […]

Washington Post reporters Juliet Eilperin and Krissah Thompson quoted Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History, on a story about Michelle Obama’s upcoming trip to China. When Laura Bush ventured to the Thailand-Burma border six years ago, the first lady accused China of not doing enough to pressure the […]