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Ohio University poetry alum Becca J.R. Lachman ’07MA received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2014. In addition, the anthology that she edited, A Ritual to Read Together: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford, was published by Woodley Press and will have its official launch at Powell’s bookstore […]

The Daily Register reports that Dr. Ronald Stephens, Associate Professor of African American Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University, was the guest speaker at the Paint Creek Regular Baptist Church in Gallipolis on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Stephens, an associate professor of African American Studies at Ohio University, […]

The Dayton Daily News reports that an Ohio University alum who studied Journalism and Political Science “is seeing his name added to a law firm’s name.” Law firm Gordon & Rees is adding Southern California partner Michael “Miles” Scully to the firm’s name. Scully was born and raised in Dayton’s […]

WOUB quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences, in a story following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union pitch for a nearly 40 percent increase to the national minimum wage. “Economist of all stripes […]

Two writers connected with the Ph.D. program in Creative Writing at Ohio University have published essays in the new anthology, Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South & Women Behaving Badly, recently released by In Fact Books.  Author Dorothy Allison writes in her introduction, “The most dangerous stories are […]

For some perspective on this week’s cold weather, Athens Messenger reporter Sara Brumfield went to Kyle Clem, Associate Director of the Scalia Laboratory for Atmospheric Analysis and a graduate student in Geography-Meteorology in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. Clem said this week’s cold snap won’t be as bad as […]

Ohio University alum  and Athens City Law Director Pat Lang ’99 “confirmed late Monday that he plans to announce on Tuesday his candidacy for Athens County Common Pleas Court, Judge L. Alan Goldsberry’s seat on the court,” reported the Post’s  Kelly Fisher on Jan. 28 Lang earned a degree in Political […]