Archive for July, 2021

From Ohio University News How does a non-traditional college student end up a preeminent scholar decoding an ancient Indian myth about a Hindu god with a resemblance to Oedipus? And why was he drawn to a dark character who could have been the model for Star Wars’ Kylo Ren? Dr. […]

From Ohio University News Ohio University offers a new course this fall designed to give students in any major the skills they need to ask questions and explore problems using data. “We are immersed in data every day. It governs our lives in seen and unseen ways. Understanding how data […]

Dr. Alonzo Hamby, Professor Emeritus of History at Ohio University, was quoted in a story headlined “The Truman show: Clifton Daniel will play his grandfather in one-man show.” “Americans began to see Truman as a feisty everyman from ‘Middle America’ rather than a partisan Washington, D.C., politico,” according to Alonzo […]

Dr. Kenneth Hicks wrote a column for the Columbus Dispatch headlined “Astronomy: We can learn a lot from celestial collision almost no one saw.” In January 2020, there were fireworks in the sky, but almost no one on Earth noticed The cosmic fireworks were considerable, from a collision of a […]

From Ohio University News Twenty high school students from Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania got to try their hands at a career in law through the 2021 Summer Law & Trial Institute at Ohio University, concluding with a mock trial that their friends and family could watch online. More than […]

From Ohio University News Ohio University alumna Sarah Welch ’16 is headed to Washington, D.C., where she’ll clerk for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The court ended its 2020-21 term on July 2 by announcing the new slate of law clerks that will be working with them in the next […]

From Ohio University News Alumna Stevi Miller (’13, ’14M) started at Ohio University undecided on what she wanted to major in. Now she works with College of Arts & Sciences students who are starting the same way—still wading through a large menu of major, minor and certificate options. “Choosing a […]