Archive for June, 2015

English alum Jarod Anderson ’10M joined Ohio University’s Zanesville Campus as Director of External Relations in June. Anderson comes to Ohio University from the Columbus State Community College Foundation where he served as Operations Manager. In his role at Columbus State, Anderson managed several annual fundraising campaigns, worked to implement […]

Minutes of Rural Women’s Studies Association Breakfast Meeting at the Agricultural History Society Lexington, KY June 4, 2015 The meeting was called to order by Co-ordinator Katherine Jellison. The breakfast meeting was sponsored by both Guelph University and Iowa State University. The first order of business was approval of the […]

NOTICE: This course is not running Fall 2015. Watch for it next semester. A new introductory course for the Ohio: Sense of Place curricular theme involves student-selected field trips to experience different aspects of the great state of Ohio, such as its history, culture, industry, environmental issues, landscape, arts, and […]

Dr. H. Lavar Pope joined the Political Science Department in Spring 2015 as a Visiting Assistant Professor. His research focuses on the intersection between race and ethnic politics, political communication, and American political development. Pope has written journal articles and book chapters on rap music as a form of political […]

Ohio University Geological Sciences alum Yusuf Musa Bashir, Chairman and Managing Director of Hared Petroleum in Uganda, was recently interviewed by Ismail Musa Ladu about his business plans and achievements in a Daily Monitor story on “Bashir has no regrets for moving on.” Yusuf Musa Bashir is a meticulous businessman, […]

Ohio University Economics alum and renowned Kenyan scholar and economist Mwangi Samson Kimenyi died June 6, 2015, in Maryland. Kimenyi earned an M.A. in Economics in 1982 from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. “Dr. Kimenyi was a former director and senior research fellow at the Africa […]

Ohio University alum Alison Stine ’13Ph.D. won a HarperCollins writing contest and had her first novel published in April, with paperback planned in October, reports WTSP Ch. 10 news in Tampa Bay. Stine earned a Ph.D. in English from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. Alison Stine […]