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Anton Op-Ed Probes Impact of Prison Releases on Families

Victoria Anton

Ohio University alumna Victoria Anton ’20, now pursuing an M.A. in Sociology at OHIO, authored an op-ed in the Athens News headlined What can happen behind closed doors and how to fix it for justice-involved families. With the onset of the COVID-19 global health pandemic, prison populations have been a […]

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December 30, 2020 at 3:59 pmAlumni In Class In the News News Students in the News

Hendrix Pens Op-Ed on COVID Relief for Thousands Released from Prison

Hendrix Pens Op-Ed on COVID Relief for Thousands Released from Prison

Ohio University alumna Clara Hendrix ’20, now pursuing an M.A. in Sociology at OHIO, authored an op-ed in the Athens News headlined There is no COVID-19 relief for thousands being released from U.S. prisons. As the devastating effects of COVID-19 continue to ravage the country, there have been endless calls […]

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December 30, 2020 at 3:25 pmAlumni In Class In the News News Students in the News

Alumni News | Hurtado-Torres Wins Acclaim for Book on Chile’s Cold War

Dr. Sebastián Hurtado-Torres

  Foreign Affairs, published by the Council on Foreign Relations and one of the world’s leading forums for the discussion of international relations, announced Ohio University alumnus Dr. Sebastián Hurtado-Torres’s The Gathering Storm: Eduardo Frei’s Revolution in Liberty and Chile’s Cold War as one of its Best Books of 2020. […]

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Jellison, Duerr Recognized for Media Mentions

Dr. Janet Duerr

Ohio University News reports that two College of Arts & Sciences professors are among the top 10 media newsmakers in a story headlined OHIO faculty recognized for elevating University’s profile through the media.  Every year since 2015, Ohio University community members have gathered at the annual Faculty Newsmakers Gala […]

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December 18, 2020 at 9:50 amFaculty in the News In the News News

BRG Quotes Dhanani on Relationship between Research on Media Consumption & COVID Knowledge

Dr. Lindsay Dhanani

BGR news quotes Lindsay Dhanani about her newly published research in a story headlined Your media consumption habits say a lot about your COVID-19 knowledge. Along these lines, a new study that appears in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, has taken a closer look at trust in government during the […]

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December 9, 2020 at 3:53 pmFaculty in the News In the News

New York Times Quotes Zoccola on How Teens Use Downtime

Dr. Peggy Zoccola

The New York Times quotes Dr. Peggy Zoccola, Associate Professor of Psychology at Ohio University, in a story headlined How Teens Use Downtime to Connect, Distract or Reflect. Happy distractions may be a particularly apt choice when teenagers find themselves dogged by worries about school, peers, rising Covid-19 rates or […]

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Nance Discusses Existence of Supercontinent Pannotia with Yale News

Dr. R. Damian Nance

Yale News covers the debate about the existence of supercontinent Pannotia, posited by R. Damian Nance, in an article headlined Pannotia: A supercontinent on trial. Nance, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geology at Ohio University, is now a visiting fellow at Yale. In separate articles published recently by The Geological Society […]

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