Archive for August, 2018

Forty-two educators from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are spending a year at Ohio University in a professional development program dubbed the “Khbrat” program, which means “experience” in Arabic. Building Leadership for Change Through School Immersion: The OHIO Experience “Khbrat” Program is a collaborative involving the Ohio Program of Intensive […]

Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University, authored a column in the Columbus Dispatch headlined “Is there life on Mars? Discovery of water provides tantalizing clue.” The European Space Agency has done it again. It has scooped NASA with a new discovery: a subglacial lake on […]

By Shelby Kihm Field Ecology major interning at the Wayne National Forest Hello everyone, botany intern back at it again. As we all may know the milkweed plant is very important for the cycle of the monarch caterpillar. The caterpillars will only eat milkweed plants (Asclepias sp.), and the butterflies […]

Dr. Jana Houser, Assistant Professor of Geography, received NSF funding to examine topographic effects on tornado formation and intensity. Houser has spent much of her early career using radar data to examine the internal dynamics of tornado formation. Her research on the rapid development and evolution of tornadoes and associated storm-scale […]

Ohio University alumna Molly Kathleen ’08 works to address recycling and solid waste challenges in Ohio. An environmental planner with GT Environmental, Kathleen earned a B.S. in Environmental Geography from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. Connect with Kathleen on LinkedIn. Geography’s eight specialized majors provide a […]

“This May we sent off a large and impressive class of graduating Geography majors. Most have very exciting plans, including graduate school, service such as AmeriCorps or Peace Corps, or their first professional job. We congratulate them all and hope they stay in touch and hopefully help graduating Bobcats in […]

Congratulations to our spring graduates! In addition to those who completed a geography major, minor or master’s degree, 23 graduating seniors earned certificates in GIS or in Wealth and Poverty. Our newest alumni are off to exciting futures, a few of which are highlighted elsewhere in this newsletter. We wish […]