Archive for March, 2017

A Visit to Wealth and Poverty’s Rural America Exhibition

Rural America Exhibit in Alden library through March 10, 2017.

by Mercedes Lewis ’19 The Wealth and Poverty Theme’s Rural America exhibition, curated by Araba Dawson-Andoh, Africana Librarian, and Dr. Rachel Terman, Assistant Professor of Sociology, is located on the fourth floor of Alden Library. It features multiple different items that focus on the past and present of Rural America. […]

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March 2, 2017 at 1:38 pmNews

Sociology-Criminology Alum Loves Role as Disability Claims Adjudicator

Ian Thompson after the Department of Sociology and Anthropology Awards Ceremony, April 2016.

Ian Thompson ’16 graduated Cum Laude with a B.A. in Sociology-Criminology and a minor in Anthropology from the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio University. “I had no idea what I wanted to do once I left college,” he says. “My main goal, I suppose, was to land an […]

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March 2, 2017 at 12:24 pmAlumni

Summer 2017 | Curran Teaches Short Course Introduction to Biological Anthropology

Dr. Sabrina Curran

Dr. Sabrina Curran, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, is teaching a short course called ANTH 2010 Introduction to Biological Anthropology in the second summer session. This course satisfied the Ohio University general education Tier II Natural Sciences (2NS) requirement. ANTH 2010 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (2NS) 6/27/17 – 7/18/17 | Class […]

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March 2, 2017 at 12:19 pmAnnouncements

Summer 2017 | Morgan Teaches Immigration and Crime – Online 1st Summer Session

Charlie Morgan, Assistant Professor of Sociology. © Ohio University / Photo by Ben Siegel

Soc 3680X Immigration and Crime Taught online by Dr. Charlie Morgan, Assistant Professor of Sociology Class Number 3433 5/8/17 – 6/24/17 This course will provide students with the basic knowledge about how immigration and crime intersect. Students first learn the fundamentals of immigration, to include the basic history of immigration […]

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March 2, 2017 at 12:12 pmAnnouncements News

Student’s Internship Leads to Job with Big Four Company

Student’s Internship Leads to Job with Big Four Company

by Kristin M. Distel Hannah Clouser, a senior studying actuarial science, completed a summer internship with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in New York City and has been offered a full-time position with the firm. Clouser, whose interest in actuarial science focuses on calculating risk for corporations, will begin working full-time for PwC […]

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March 2, 2017 at 8:37 amStudents in the News

2015-16 Physics and Astronomy Student News

Sean McGraw

Physics & Astronomy 2015-16 Student News Sean McGraw won first place in Ohio University’s inaugural 3-Minute-Thesis (3MT) competition, hosted by Graduate College. His presentation title was “Black Holes: Little Engines that Control the Evolution of Galaxies.” Andrea Richard received the Science Graduate Student Research Award from the Department of Energy […]

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March 2, 2017 at 8:00 amAlumni News

Two Conferences on Nuclear Physics Held in Athens

Two Conferences on Nuclear Physics Held in Athens

Two special Physics & Astronomy events—the “JINA-CEE Satellite Workshop on Experiments for X-ray Burst Nucleosynthesis’’ on May 22, 2016, and the “JINA-CEE International Symposium on Neutron Stars in the Multi-Messenger Era: Prospects & Challenges’’ during May 23-27, 2016—took place in Walter Hall 245 in Athens, Ohio. More than 80 scientists […]

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March 2, 2017 at 8:00 amNews