Archive for November, 2014

University College and the Environmental Studies Program are recruiting 15 faculty and five undergraduate scholars to participate in the Kanawha Project during the 2014-15 academic year. The goal of the project—Advancing Carbon Neutrality: Using the Kanawha Model to Facilitate Climate Change Literacy—is to build climate change literacy to enhance the […]

An article on “As Africa’s Cities Change, So Does Youth Slang” on The Atlantic’s City Lab quotes Dr. Peter Githinji, Associate Professor of Linguistics at Ohio University. The fusion languages springing up now in Africa’s cities, however, are likely just the beginning. Africa’s urbanization rate will be among the world’s […]

Dover Chemical Corp. announced that Ohio University alum Marc Nolen ’00 has been named director of corporate operations, which includes sites in Dover, Ohio, and Hammond, Ind. “Nolen is responsible for operational efficiency, order fulfillment, strategic initiatives, employee safety and regulatory compliance,” according to a Tech News article. “He began […]

Ohio University alum Bailey Shoemaker Richards ’11 is a writer with Demand Media. Read her recent article on “How to Incorporate in a State You Don’t Live in.” She earned a B.A. in Creative Writing from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. Richards has contributed to numerous […]

Dr. Gary Holcomb, Professor of African American Literature, has been awarded a FIRST (Faculty-In-Residence-Summer-Term) grant by the University of Colorado, Boulder. The University of Colorado’s FIRST is an exclusive program for summer session where some of the best and brightest faculty come to CU from national and international universities such […]

By Tanya Dovbnya Ohio Program of Intensive English and A&S International Academic Adviser OPIE Welcomes New Students OPIE welcomes and hosts 28 students from Mexico who come to Ohio University as participants of the Proyecta 100,000 program. It is a student mobility program that aims for academic and cultural exchange between the […]

Senior Portraits are being taken Nov. 18 to 20 in the Honors Collegium on the fourth floor of Baker University Center. “It is free to have your photo taken and featured in the 2014-15 Athena Yearbook,” says Alex D. Molnar, editor-in-chief “The Athena is a piece of archival OHIO history […]