Archive for April, 2015

By George E. Mauzy Jr. From Compass The Ohio University Department of English hosted its second annual Futures in English Symposium on Friday in Alden Library to demonstrate to its students that anything is possible with an English degree. Organizers said the event lets students know that there are many […]

The Visitors by Patrick O’Keeffe has been named to the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2015 Shortlist. O’Keeffe is Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University, where he teaches creative writing fiction. Following a tremendous response to a call for submissions to the Kerry Group Irish Novel of […]

Less than two weeks after Ohio University hosted the plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, the event was mentioned on the floor of the U.S. Senate by Sen. Sherrod Brown. James Obergefell, the named plaintiff in the marriage equality case, was in Washington, D.C., to meet […]

Dr. Amritjit Singh gives a talk on “The Minority Psyche: Between South Asia and North America” on April 20 at Delhi University in India. Singh, Langston Hughes Professor of English at Ohio University, is currently a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Professor of English at the University of Delhi. Abstract: In my talk, I […]

In the summer of 2014, Kylie Holmes ’16 worked on a particle physics project at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, VA. For 2015, the double major in Astrophysics and Meteorology headed to California for summer study work to conduct atmospheric research with NASA. Holmes will be […]

College of Arts & Sciences faculty dominated in presentations for the 2015 Women in Science and Engineering Program at Ohio University. Special thanks go to Dr. James Y. Tong, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry & Biochemistry, for organizing the annual event, held this year on April 9. Dr. Rebecca Barlag, Professor of […]

Written by Kristina Guyton OPIE Lecturer and Socio-Cultural Coordinator  On Thursday, April 9, international students in the Ohio Program of Intensive English conversed with elderly residents at lunchtime at The Laurels of Athens, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation center. The visit was arranged as part of a special studies class that OPIE […]