Archive for August, 2014

Two Ohio University master’s students and an undergraduate student in Geological Sciences were recognized as having received Geological Society of America research grants. Michael Blair and James Brown , both graduate students, were named in the July 2014 issue of GSA Today. Blair joined Dr. Daniel Hembree’s Ichnology Research Lab […]

Dr. R. Damian Nance, Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences at Ohio University, has been named a Geological Society of America Fellow. Society Fellowship is an honor bestowed on the best of the profession by election at the spring GSA Council meeting. GSA members are nominated by existing GSA Fellows in […]

By Gretchen Gregory From Compass Situated on the southern side of the Ohio University campus is one of Athens hidden gems, a place where students can experience research about nature through a mix of wildlife, sweeping prairie grasslands, rolling hills, forested land, valleys and ravines. Of the 740 acres that […]

A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette review of Patrick O’Keeffe’s novel The Visitors describes ” the story of two contemporary Irish immigrants. Graduate student Jimmy Dwyer and real estate investor Kevin Lyons were never friends, but their families were linked by the friendship between their two fathers in rural Ireland. All four men’s […]

“Every year, a set of Ohio twins is chosen to receive $1,000 each from the Twins Days Scholarship Fund, while two Twinsburg High School graduates receive $500 each. Twinsburg High School graduates Mary Claire Chester and Meghan Ulisse took home $500 each for their Twins Days Scholarships,” reports the Twinsburg Bulletin. […]

By Sean Demme Environmental & Plant Biology Major As we move away from our atrocious waste management habits of the industrial age, the obvious rise in recycling efforts has taken place. Before the time of mass production, recycling was a more common practice as it was much cheaper to reuse […]