Archive for April, 2019

Career Corner | Quidel Seeks Student for R&D Lab Assistant Position

Quidel employees in the lab

Quidel Corp. is seeking students applicants for a Lab Assistant position in its R&D Lab. This is a student position for 10 to 20 hours per week. The position will be for a period of one year. “The opportunity for learning is limitless,” says Teju Jondhale. Interested students can send […]

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April 25, 2019 at 11:27 amAnnouncements News

Poggione Named Associate Dean for Students, Instruction, and Curriculum

Dr. Sarah Poggione

Dr. Joseph Shields, Interim Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, announced that Dr. Sarah Poggione will become Associate Dean for Students, Instruction, and Curriculum in the college, effective July 1. Poggione is Associate Professor of Political Science and has served as department chair since 2017. “She has significant […]

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April 25, 2019 at 11:16 amAnnouncements News

Mazakis Publishes Several Poems, Named Finalist in Book Prize

Angie Mazakis

English graduate student Angie Mazakis’s manuscript, I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First, was selected as one of two finalists by Indiana Review’s Blue Light Books Prize. Mazakis, an Ohio University alum, also has one poem each in new issues of The Iowa Review, Columbia Journal, and […]

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April 25, 2019 at 10:52 amAlumni Research

Schaum Gets American College Personnel Association Distinguished Service Award

Kacey Schaum

From Compass Kacey Schaum, Assistant Director for the Career and Leadership Development Center and the College of Arts & Sciences, was honored at the convention for the American College Personnel Association in Boston. Schaum won the Distinguished Service Award, which honors an individual who has displayed exemplary service and commitment […]

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April 24, 2019 at 5:43 pmNews

Semester at Chubu University Provides Research, Teaching Opportunities for Thompson

Dr. Chris Thompson firing his assigned flintlock musket at Asuke Hachimangū Shrine on the first day of the Asuke Fall Matsuri.

From Compass | Submitted by the Office of Global Affairs Dr. Chris Thompson, Associate Professor of Linguistics, spent the fall 2018 semester at Chubu University in Japan, and his work there will provide new momentum for his teaching and research activities for years to come. From Sept. 8 through Dec. […]

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April 24, 2019 at 5:36 pmFaculty in the News In the News

Alumni News | Poet Stanley Plumly Dies

The Washington Post reports on Ohio University alum Stanley Plumly in an obituary headlined “Stanley Plumly, Md. poet laureate who wrote of nature and memory, dies at 79.” Mr. Plumly said his twin obsessions during his youth were basketball and reading. He graduated in 1961 from Wilmington College in Ohio, […]

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April 24, 2019 at 5:21 pmAlumni Alumni in the News In the News

Alumni News | Dr. Wiecher Passes, Had Practice in Mansfield

Dr. Frederick J. Wiecher

Ohio University alum Frederick J. Wiecher passed away on April 15, reports the Richland Source. Wiecher earned a bachelor’s degree from the College of Arts & Sciences at OHIO in 1964. Fred was born in Osceola, Arkansas. The family moved throughout the Midwest and Fred was a 1960 graduate of […]

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April 24, 2019 at 5:04 pmAlumni Alumni in the News In the News