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Martin Authors ‘Iraq War Veteran Reads about the Iraq War’

English graduate student Hugh Martin of Ohio University authored “Some Notes: an Iraq War Veteran Reads about the Iraq War” at Mixed Sign. In Night Draws Near, Anthony Shadid, the Lebanese-American journalist, documents his time from March 2003-June 2004 living with and among Iraqis. His accounts overlap, somewhat, with my […]

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May 30, 2017 at 9:11 pmIn the News Students in the News

Pach in New York Times | ‘Lyndon Johnson’s Living Room War’

Dr. Chester Pach

Dr. Chester Pach authored a May 30 op-ed in the New York Times headlined “Lyndon Johnson’s Living Room War.” Pach is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University. On May 31, 1967, an ABC news anchor, Frank Reynolds, introduced a film report from Vietnam in an unusual way. He told […]

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May 30, 2017 at 5:39 pmFaculty in the News In the News

Cincinnati Magazine Interviews DeMott about Author Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison, Robert DeMott, and DeMott's English setter, Meadow, 
at Jim and Linda Harrison’s house in Livingston, MT, in 2013. Photo by Kate Fox.

In a Cincinnati Magazine article headlined “The River Kings,” Joanne Drilling interviews Ohio University’s Dr. Robert DeMott about his 20-plus year friendship with author Jim Harrison. DeMott is Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Ohio University. “The two formed a brotherly bond forged by fishing, feasting, […]

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May 25, 2017 at 8:53 amFaculty in the News In the News

Bring OUr Alumni Back | NQPI Alumni Andy Green

Bring OUr Alumni Back | NQPI Alumni Andy Green

By Raymond Humienny NQPI editorial intern A young Andy Green arrived at Ohio University on a college visit. “The campus was really beautiful, having that small town in the mountains charm,” Green said.” Although it’s pretty superficial, that really stuck out to me as a kid.” Nonetheless, Athens became a […]

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Blade Cites OHIO Guarantee as Model for State

Ohio University’s new tuition program got a shout out in a Toledo Blade editorial headlined “Locking in Tuition” for addressing affordability by taking the guesswork out of budgeting for four years of college. The OHIO Guarantee, which began in Fall 2015, enables students (Ohio residents and nonresidents alike) to pay a […]

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May 23, 2017 at 3:29 pmIn the News

Little Writes: Nonfiction as Autopsy: In Defense of Self-Interest

Jacob Little

Ohio University graduate student Jacob Little, a doctoral candidate in English, penned an article in Brevity titled “Nonfiction as Autopsy: In Defense of Self-Interest.” I have several friends from various parts of the literary world who joke (with varying degrees of sincerity) about how nonfiction writers are “narcissists” or “navel-gazers” […]

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May 16, 2017 at 8:07 pmIn the News Students in the News

Undergrad Helps Shed a ‘Bright Light’ on Invisible Needs

Undergrad Helps Shed a ‘Bright Light’ on Invisible Needs

By Hannah Britton From Compass Kim Dominguez, a third-year student at Ohio University studying Forensic Chemistry, Biological Sciences and Spanish, is anything but an ordinary college student. Dominguez, an Accessibility Liaison from Elgin, Ill., seeks to make the Ohio University and Athens communities a better place through involvement in and […]

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May 2, 2017 at 5:03 pmStudents in the News