Faculty in the News

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, appeared on PBS Newshour’s Washington Week with Gwen Ifill on Monday, June 9, the day of President Barack Obama’s executive order to allow more borrowers to tie student loan repayments to income levels. Vedder is also Director of the […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, was quoted in a CNN news story, picked up around the country, about the University of California system increasing its out-of-state and international enrollment and cutting back slots for California residents. “All of these schools have political pressure to […]

Dr. Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Professor and Director of Environmental Studies at the Ohio University George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, talks with the  Wilson Center about a new report from military leaders about the instability brought about by climate change. Military leaders should be very concerned about […]

Dr. Robert Klein, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Ohio University, leads a summer workshop at the University of Tulsa. A local chapter of the Math Teachers’ Circle (MTC), a national network sponsored by the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM), has been launched in Tulsa, OK. This organization is dedicated to […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, co-authored an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal with Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation on June 4. Their op-ed was on “The Blue-State Path to Inequality: States that emphasize redistribution above growth have a wider gap between […]

A Chicago Tribune editorial on June 8 references remarks made by Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University. The editorial is on “How to enhance Obama’s plan for the feds to rate U.S. colleges: The president has the right motives and a half-right solution.” You can […]

Mother Jones was one of several media outlets quoting a study co-authored by Dr. Rahi Abouk, Assistant Professor of Economics at Ohio University, on “Texting Bans and Fatal Accidents on Roadways: Do They Work? Or Do Drivers Just React to Announcements of Bans?” in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics: […]