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Los Angeles Review of Books posted two reviews of Eric LeMay‘s In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments (Emergency Press, 2014). LeMay, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing: Nonfiction in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University, published, In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments. Micah McCrary […]

Newsmax quoted Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor of History at Ohio University, in a story on “Obama Sets Up ‘Mean’ Congress as Midterm Election Strategy.” Katherine Jellison, a professor of history at Ohio University, said the strategy of running against a “do-nothing” Congress has also been successful for past presidents, according […]

A Bloomberg article on “Record Student-Loan Debt Prompts Treasury Push to Stem Defaults” on July 24 quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University. The U.S. Treasury, which finances more than 90 percent of new student loans, […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, and Ohio University alum Christopher Denhart ’14 wrote a July 30 column in Forbes about the “22 Richest Schools In America.” Vedder and Denhart are director and administrative director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. Denhart earned a B.S. in Economics […]

A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette review of Patrick O’Keeffe’s novel The Visitors describes ” the story of two contemporary Irish immigrants. Graduate student Jimmy Dwyer and real estate investor Kevin Lyons were never friends, but their families were linked by the friendship between their two fathers in rural Ireland. All four men’s […]

“Every year, a set of Ohio twins is chosen to receive $1,000 each from the Twins Days Scholarship Fund, while two Twinsburg High School graduates receive $500 each. Twinsburg High School graduates Mary Claire Chester and Meghan Ulisse took home $500 each for their Twins Days Scholarships,” reports the Twinsburg Bulletin. […]

Dr. Jennifer Fredette, who joins Ohio University this fall as Assistant Professor of Political Science, wrote a July 29 article for the Washington Post on “Are French Muslims integrated? Depends on what you mean by integration.” Her book, “Constructing Muslims in France,” was published by Temple University Press in 2014. […]