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A letter to the editor in the Athens News proclaimed Ohio University’s Spring Literary Festival scored a major coup with writer. “I am truly impressed. The Spring Literary Festival at Ohio University has somehow managed to persuade one of my favorite writers to come to Athens. Rebecca Solnit will be […]

TVNewsCheck reported March 28 that Hearst Television-owned NBC affiliate WGAL Lancaster, PA (DMA 43), has added Meteorologist Ethan Huston to its News 8 Storm Team. Huston is an Ohio University alum with a Minor on Meteorology from the Department of Geography. Huston’s regular schedule has him appearing weekends on WGAL’s 6, 10 […]

“We’re trying to figure out who killed the broccoli” is Dr. Carolee Bull’s usual, tongue-in-cheek response to what her team is involved in, writes The Californian reporter Robert Walch. In other words, this is a “CSI” lab for the vegetable world. But although the work done here is important and […]

By Dr. Saw Wai Hla, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University Viewpoint Published in Physics Guitar strings, pendulums in clocks, and quartz crystals in watches are all examples of resonators. As their name suggests, resonators oscillate most strongly at specific frequencies (resonant frequencies), which depend on properties such as […]

Ohio University alum Dr. Michelle H. Theus, a neuroscientist at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, says she hopes that a better understanding of how the brain restores blood flow to damaged tissue following a stroke will offer new treatment clues for a leading cause of […]

Ohio University alum Kristen Criswell is associate editor of Tire Review. “The 2009 graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, with a degree in magazine journalism and a minor in political science, brings a wealth of experience from assignments as digital media specialist at Little Rock […]

Ohio University alum Breanne N. Smith ’10 was named the Young Careerist winner during the Business and Professional Women’s Region 4 competition, reports the Zanesville Times Recorder. She will represent the region at the state competition April 12 in Columbus. Smith is the chief deputy of the Coshocton County Treasurer’s Office […]