Archive for July, 2018

Ohio University’s B.S. in Forensic Chemistry program received its most recent full accreditation through January 2022 from the American Academy of Forensic Sciences through the Forensic Science Programs Accreditation Commission. FEPAC maintains and promotes the quality of college-level forensic science programs through rigorous standards and formal evaluations to ensure that […]

Claire Kimok, Senior Accounting Specialist with the College of Arts & Sciences, was named the non-bargaining Classified Employee of the Month in May and featured in Compass story. How surprised were you to win the Employee of the Month award? I was shocked, embarrassed and thrilled. Having my three finance […]

Dr. Linda Rice, Professor and Chair of English at Ohio University, was quoted in an Instructional Innovation story headlined “AIA-Supported Projects: Synergies in Teaching and Learning.” Vouzianas is a lecturer of engineering and technology fundamentals in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology. His students in the “Overview of Engineering […]

Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University, authored a column in the Columbus Dispatch headlined “Astronomy: If there are alien civilizations, are they also straining their environment?” About a week ago, I heard an interview with astrophysicist Adam Frank, who recently published a book titled “Light […]

Ohio University’s Scalia Laboratory—the only place to get current weather conditions and an Athens-specific forecast—just launched a new mobile-friendly website. “When we moved here, our house didn’t have internet service or even TV service. So every morning we called Scalia Lab at 593-1717 to get the forecast,” says Dr. John […]

Students in Dr. Nicole Kaufman‘s graduate seminar (SOC 6090) wrote op-eds on prisoner reentry and submitted them to newspapers as a course requirement. One student, Maria Funcheon ’18M, who graduated with her M.A. in Sociology in May, just had hers published by Streetvibes Cincinnati. Streetvibes is a social justice-focused paper […]

Barbara C. Fifer ’69 passed away in June 2018, “having 70 revolutions around the sun,” says her obituary in the Missoulian. Fifer earned a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. She “became known as a writer on Lewis and Clark, Montana […]