In the News

“When I was a kid I heard people say that our family was ‘insurance poor.’ That meant that we spent too much on insurance, a criticism of my parents who were apprehensive about the future., writes Dr. George Weckman, Ohio University Professor Emeritus, writes June 10 in the Athens Messenger. […]

A zing that comes from having readers affirm his work?  A boost to his spirit? A sign that “I’ve created something unobjectionable enough to get past readers with very different tastes, the aesthetic equivalent of hotel furniture?” Dr. Eric LeMay tells the Competitive Writer blog that winning the Emergency Press’ […]

Dr. David Hartman ’82 has the kind of practice where he might be looking in your ears, or down your throat. But when the Times Reporter (Dover-New Philadelphia, OH) profiled Hartman, they took a probing look that uncovered a struggling actor who turned to medical school and eventually settled in […]

The Logan Daily News reported May 29 that Marilyn Hayden ’13, a Plant Biology major in Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences, has been named a 2013 Woodrow Wilson Ohio Teaching Fellow. Hayden completed her undergraduate education at OU this year with a degree in biological sciences and a […]

Washington High School valedictorian Sarah Nestor plans to attend Ohio University and major in pre-med studies, according to the Record Herald. Following the completion of Tuesday’s final exams, Washington High School has announced its top grads for the Class of 2013. Sarah Nestor, the daughters of John and Amy Nestor, […]

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources named Ken Fitz ’86 as the executive administrator of law enforcement for the ODNR Division of Wildlife. “Fitz has worked for the ODNR Division of Wildlife since 1996,” reports the Vinton County Courier on June 5. “Ken has done an outstanding job as the […]

The Vinton County Courier reports that valedictorian Chloe Musick is headed to Ohio University to study Biological Sciences in the College of Arts & Sciences’ Class of 2017. Chloe Musick from Vinton County High School was awarded the Dr. James H. and Nellie Rowley Jewell Cutler Scholars award, a four […]