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Dr. Tom Walker, Political Science Professor Emeritus, supports crisis intervention training for police, in an op-ed he wrote titled “Bill requiring mental health crisis training for police is a sound idea” in Maine’s Kennebec Journal/Morning Sentinel. A bill before the Maine Legislature, sponsored by Rep. Richard S. Malaby, R-Hancock, would […]

“People write books for a variety of reasons and Dr. Michael Day is no different,” writes Journal News reporter Ed Richter. Day earned a B.S. in Biological Science from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. Out of a concern that the rules, regulations, fear of malpractice suits […]

Ohio University alum Carolyn Herbst Lewis gives a women’s history month lecture on “Between a Woman and Her Doctor: Prescriptions for Sex and Childbirth in the Twentieth Century” at the University of North Texas in March. Lewis is assistant professor of history at Grinnell College in Grinnell, IO. She earned a […]

Ohio University alum Dr. Mark Knable has joined OhioHealth in Athens, reports the Logan Daily. Knable earned a B.S. in Biological Sciences Pre-Medicine from the College of Arts & Sciences and a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine at Ohio University. ATHENS — With more […]

Ohio University alum David Prentice authored an article on “Choosing ‘the Long Road’: Henry Kissinger, Melvin Laird, Vietnamization, and the War over Nixon’s Vietnam Strategy” in the March 2015 edition of Diplomatic History. Prentice earned an M.A. in 2009 and a Ph.D. in History in 2013, along with a Contemporary […]

  “I am an MFA dropout,” writes Maggie Messitt, a doctoral student in Ohio University’s Creative Writing non-fiction program. Her column “In Defense of the Low-Res MFA” appears on the Brevity blog. …Still, I was convinced that graduate school was my next step. I wanted to tell true stories. After […]

PBS NewsHour weekly poem series featured a reading of “As If” by Dr. J. Allyn Rosser, Associate Professor of English at Ohio University, from her new book Mimi’s Trapeze. The Artsdesk story carried the headline: Poet posits, ‘We humans, we’re kind of a disappointment.’ In Mimi’s Trapeze, her fourth book, […]