Archive for March, 2015

Guy Aldridge, a graduate student in History at Ohio University, has won a 2015 Summer Research Assistantship for graduate students at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He will spend two months there this summer, assisting on a variety of the museum’s research projects and conducting his own […]

The Sustainability Studies theme is offering a new Introduction to Sustainability course (CAS 1415) this spring semester. The course introduces students to sustainability concepts, issues, and trends from the local to the global levels. The course is team taught by Dr. Nancy Manring in Political Science, Dr. Kelly Johnson in […]

When it comes to running, there’s a gender gap between men and women that even elite training doesn’t erase. “Why are most women, on average, slower than men?” asks Runner’s World in the April 2015 edition. “At every distance up to the marathon, the gap between men’s and women’s world […]

By Tetyana Dovbnya OPIE and College of Arts & Sciences International Student Adviser Ohio University and OPIE hosted visitors form the Omani Consulate in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 24-25. Dr. Talal Al Bulushi, a new cultural attaché at the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Oman, and Mona Selim, Academic […]

The Rainy Season: Three Lives in the New South Africa, a new work of literary journalism by Maggie Messitt, releases in April. Messitt is a doctoral student in Ohio University’s Creative Writing non-fiction program. Just across the northern border of a former apartheid-era homeland sits a rural community in the […]

  “I am an MFA dropout,” writes Maggie Messitt, a doctoral student in Ohio University’s Creative Writing non-fiction program. Her column “In Defense of the Low-Res MFA” appears on the Brevity blog. …Still, I was convinced that graduate school was my next step. I wanted to tell true stories. After […]

The Charles J. Ping Institute for the Teaching of the Humanities presents The Case of the Novice Novelist: One Mystery Writer’s Journey. This one-day workshop for secondary teachers is Saturday, April 18, 2015, at Ohio University in Athens, OH. The workshop leader is Andrew Welsh-Huggins, author of Fourth Down and Out. Welsh-Huggins, a reporter […]