Archive for September, 2019

Apply by Sept. 18 for the new Bobcat Mentorship Program, a formalized matching program that runs from September to December and January to April. Students will matched with a long-term mentor. Join the Program. Mentorship is “a process through which someone helps and guides an individual’s advancement professionally and/or personally. […]

The Disney College Program is a paid internship comprised of living, learning and earning components that is offered at the Walt Disney World® Resort and Disneyland® Resort. All majors are welcome. Disney is recruiting for spring and fall seasons. Applicants must have completed at least one semester of college, be […]

Graduate students An Nguyen and Mark Sakach participated in the South East Asian Studies Summer Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this summer. Nguyen and Sakach are students in the M.A. in Applied Linguistics program at Ohio University. Sakach was awarded the competitive Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) scholarship to […]

For the fourth summer in a row, Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Middle East and North Africa Studies Certificate at Ohio University, co-directed a summer institute that brings together an international, interdisciplinary cohort of Ph.D. candidates conducting research on Lebanon. Abu-Rish explained that he […]

  The Contemporary History Institute held its first public lecture of the semester and welcome alumnus Raymond Haberski Jr. In his talk, titled “Dangerous Ideas,” Haberski explained how the internet has revitalized and broadened intellectual history. The branch of knowledge that deals with changes in ideas, intellectual history has suffered […]

Dr. Bruce Ergood, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, passed away on Sept. 5 at the age of 88. he died in Rochester, N.Y., while returning from Silver Bay, a YMCA Conference Center in the Adirondacks and his summer home, according to his obituary in the Athens Messenger. Ergood arrived at Ohio […]

The Linguistics Department at Ohio University announces the fall 2019 colloquia schedule. Sept. 6: Surviving the first year of graduate school – Panel Discussion Sept. 13: e-Portfolio: Digital Representation of Professional Self – Dr. Joe Lee, Ohio University Sept. 20: University policies prohibiting discrimination in the context of Title IX […]