Archive for December, 2019

Max Eden of the Manhattan Institute reviews Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America by Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in a Claremont Review of Books article headlined “Not Worth It.” Higher education is perhaps the most regressive government redistribution, providing a benefit primarily […]

Maria Funcheon ’18M moved back to New York City after graduating from Ohio University with her M.A. in Sociology from the College of Arts and Sciences. New York has been her home since 2008. She rejoined the company she had worked for before grad school, Oxbridge Academic Programs, an organization […]

Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. Chad Holcomb ’13 is a Special Agent for the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Crime Scene Unit and is responsible for the investigation of felony crimes, […]

Dr. Donald Miles and researchers from France and California have a new explanation for why some animals are monogamous and others are promiscuous or polygamous, and their model for the evolution of mating systems plays out like a game of rock, paper, scissors. Miles is Professor of Biological Sciences at […]

Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. Excepted From Ohio Today Staff Sgt. Carolyn Kinzel ’18 is using the skills learned in Ohio University’s geospatial sciences program to literally save thousands of lives […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, wrote a column for the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal headlined “New Research Shows Federal Student Aid Is Worse than We Thought.” For years I have railed against the dysfunctional federal student loan program. The availability of […]

The Linguistics Colloquium series presents Rickey Larkin and Tanya Tytko discussing “A Corpus-Based Analysis of This/These in L2 Student Writing” on Friday, Feb. 21, from 12:55 to 1:55 p.m. in Gordy 301. Larkin and Tytko are MA Linguistics students at Ohio University Abstract:  Interested in using corpus methods? In this colloquium, we talk […]