Archive for January, 2019

Bikowski Gives Keynote in Vietnam on English as Medium of Instruction

Bikowski discusses EMI challenges and strategies with Vietnamese teachers.

Dr. Dawn Bikowski, Director the English Language Improvement Program’s Academic & Global Communication Program, gave the keynote address at the “International Conference on Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages” in Hanoi, Vietnam. Bikowski was invited by Vietnam National University: University of Languages and International Studies. In attendance were nearly 400 teachers […]

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January 28, 2019 at 4:30 amResearch

Psychology and Social Work Clinic Serves Campus, Athens Community

Psychology and Social Work Clinic waiting room

by Kristin Distel In recent months, OHIO’s Psychology and Social Work Clinic has broadened the scope of its services and amended billing policies to serve the changing needs of its clients. The clinic offers an array of services that are available not only to students but also OHIO faculty and […]

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January 27, 2019 at 12:04 pmNews

Moore Co-Edits New Book, ‘Bodies of Truth’

Moore Co-Edits New Book, ‘Bodies of Truth’

Dinty Moore, Professor and Director of Creative Writing, co-edited a new book, Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine, published by University of Nebraska Press. He is also currently serving as the Mary Rogers Field and Marion Field-McKenna Distinguished University Professor of Creative Writing at DePauw University […]

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January 26, 2019 at 3:40 pmResearch

Alumni News | Rienerth’s Life as a Sociologist

Jan Rienerth, Photo credit: Yogi Collins

by Aissatou Boye ’20 Janice Rienerth attended and graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences Ohio University in the 1960s, with a B.S. in Math and a B.A. in Sociology. After graduation, she worked a year before accepting an assistantship in Sociology at Southern Illinois University, where she earned […]

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January 25, 2019 at 12:23 amAlumni

Hill Publishes Book on the Discourse of Elections in China, 1840-2018

Hill Publishes Book on the Discourse of Elections in China, 1840-2018

Dr. Joshua Hill, Assistant Professor of History, recently published Voting as a Rite: A History of Elections in Modern China with Harvard University Press. The book offers an in-depth study of the intellectual and cultural history of elections in modern China. Hill covers the period from the Opium War to the present […]

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January 24, 2019 at 10:25 amResearch

Chemistry and Biochemistry | New Chemistry Building Activity

Scheduled activity for the new Chemistry Building during the weeks of Jan. 7 and Jan. 14. Jan. 7 Continue installation of Sanitary and Storm piping and structures.  Involves deep excavations, backfill and compaction of soil, hauling/trucking on and off site. Install Sanitary line to Surface Science Lab.     NOTE – […]

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January 24, 2019 at 7:39 amAnnouncements

Murphy Illustrates ‘Brevity,’ Publishes Flash Fiction

Dev Murphy

by Kristin Distel English Literature alum and visual artist Dev Murphy (’17) has published new work in multiple venues, including Dinty Moore‘s Brevity Magazine. Murphy’s illustrations appear alongside the the fifteen flash nonfiction essays that comprise Brevity‘s new issue (Issue #60). Additionally, Murphy’s flash fiction piece, “Screaming Story,” appears in […]

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January 23, 2019 at 2:53 amAlumni Alumni in the News