Archive for April, 2018

Dr. Sebastian Hurtado Torres and is currently assistant professor of history at Universidad Austral in Valdivia, Chile. He earned a Ph.D. in History from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University in 2016. He also earned a Certificate of Contemporary History, which helped prepare him for his work […]

Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. by Logan Stark ’18 Ohio University alum Paige Shoemaker ’17 is an environmental science teacher at Cleveland’s MC2 STEM High School, which features a rigorous STEM […]

Excerpted from Compass Dr. Jennifer L. Fredette, Assistant Professor of Political Science, was one of four Ohio University faculty members who received the University Professor award during the 47th annual awards ceremony on April 12. The University Professor award recognizes outstanding teaching at the university. Since its founding in 1970, […]

The Plant Biology Graduate Student Association has been active this year in mentoring undergraduates, judging science fairs, removing invasive plants, and more. As graduate students preparing for careers in plant science, the group came together during the year to attend American Association for the Advancement of Science webcasts on professional […]

Simon Wang, Ohio University’s 2018 Charles J. Ping International Leadership Award recipient, doesn’t just find a way—he forges a solution. Arriving in the United States with his mother, he was an entrepreneur by third grade. Unable to communicate with his father, still in Taiwan, he enrolled in Chinese courses as […]

Dr. Geoff Buckley, Professor of Geography, has co-edited a new volume of essays, The American Environment Revisited: Environmental Historical Geographies of the United States (Rowman & Littlefield). Buckley’s co-editor, Dr. Yolonda Youngs, is an assistant professor of global studies at Idaho State University. “Because I am an environmental historical geographer, […]

Dr. Stephen Scanlan, Associate Professor of Sociology, delivered the keynote address at the fifth annual Northeastern Ohio Undergraduate Sociology Symposium at Oberlin College. The theme of this year’s symposium was #sociology:asrelevantasever. The title of Scanlan’s talk was “Sociology and Its Discontents: The Ongoing Significance, Persistence, and Necessity of the Sociological […]