Archive for December, 2017

Genna Auteri ’09 ’11M works at Thoughtwell leading a project for the Columbus Women’s Commission that focuses on the intersection of job growth and childcare. Through a series of focus groups, her project looks at how women make decisions based on the childcare that is available to them and how […]

Geography alum Ray Postolovski recently returned to campus to commemorate the contributions of late Geography professor Hugh Bloemer to the Geography Department and the Ohio University community. Postolovski led the effort to designate the summit near Athens as Bloemer Berg. This naming was approved by the U.S. Geological Survey and […]

  Carolyn Kinzel ’18 will graduate this spring with a Geographic Information Science major, but instead of hitting the job market she will be joining her fellow Air National Guards on a deployment. In addition to being an accomplished geography major with a promising future, Kinzel is a Senior Airman […]

By Thomas Smucker Associate Professor of Geography This fall, the Geography Department welcomed its newest faculty member: President M. Duane Nellis. A prolific specialist of environmental remote sensing and GIS, President Nellis was inaugurated as the 21st President of Ohio University on Oct. 18. The department is excited that such […]

By Dorothy Sack Professor & Chair of Geography Dear Friends, I hope this finds you well! I became chair of the Ohio University Department of Geography on July 1, when Jim Dyer completed his second three-year term in that position. It’s been a pretty steep learning curve for me, but […]

By Debbie Walter Nearly 100 students from Marshall University, the University of West Virginia, Ohio University and Vanderbilt University attended the sixth annual Appalachian Regional Cell Conference Dec. 2 at Ohio University. The conference was founded in 2012 by West Virginia University, Marshall University, the University of Kentucky and Ohio […]

Dr. James Braselton, Professor Emeritus in Environmental & Plant Biology, was recognized for accomplishments in the field of Plasmodiophorids with the naming of a new species of plant parasite, Maullinia braseltonii sp. nov. “The species epithet refers to James P. Braselton, a well renowned researcher in the field of phytomyxid morphology […]