Alumni in the News

“On a sunny and memorable day in 1979, I stood in the post office in Manchester Center, Vermont, and unwrapped the package containing the advance copy of my first book, Old Yellowstone Days. As I stood there staring at it in wonder, I realized that with its publication I had […]

On his way to medical school, Devin Patchell ’09 took a global path—to the Negev Desert of southern Israel. One family at a time, he is helping Bedouins and nomadic people with little access to medical care establish a multi-generational shift toward preventive health care based on their unique needs. […]

A zing that comes from having readers affirm his work?  A boost to his spirit? A sign that “I’ve created something unobjectionable enough to get past readers with very different tastes, the aesthetic equivalent of hotel furniture?” Dr. Eric LeMay tells the Competitive Writer blog that winning the Emergency Press’ […]

Dr. David Hartman ’82 has the kind of practice where he might be looking in your ears, or down your throat. But when the Times Reporter (Dover-New Philadelphia, OH) profiled Hartman, they took a probing look that uncovered a struggling actor who turned to medical school and eventually settled in […]

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources named Ken Fitz ’86 as the executive administrator of law enforcement for the ODNR Division of Wildlife. “Fitz has worked for the ODNR Division of Wildlife since 1996,” reports the Vinton County Courier on June 5. “Ken has done an outstanding job as the […]

The Chillicothe Gazette reported June 3 that alum Amy Rann ’01, who earned a Mathematics degree in the College of Arts & Sciences, is returning to Ohio University for master’s work as a Woodrow Wilson Ohio Teaching Fellow. Two local educators were among 77 selected as Woodrow Wilson National Fellows. […]

The Athens News reported June 3 that Robert Colyer Wickham, an alum of Ohio University’s College of Arts &Sciences, passed away May 30, at the age of 100. After graduating high school in Salt Lake City, Utah, he came to Athens to attend Ohio University where he graduated in 1937 […]