Students in the News

WOUB quotes College of Arts & Sciences Student Jesper Becholt in a story on Facebook gender options. Becholt is majoring in English and Women’s and Gender Studies. For the last five years of its existence, Facebook has only allowed users to identify as either “male” or “female.” Now, after working […]

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 student Josiah James Pugh ’17, a graduate of Tuscarawas Valley High School,was awarded one of three Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. scholarships at the the 22nd annual Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast at the Alex D. Krassas Event Center in Canton, OH, on Jan. 16, reports the […]

Dr. Richard Vedder and Ohio University alum Christopher Denhart published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 8. Vedder is Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University. Denhart earned a B.S. in Economics from Ohio University’s College of […]

Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences senior Ryan McGrath ’14 accepted an invitation to the third annual NFLPA Collegiate Bowl in Carson, CA. McGrath is majoring in Sociology-Criminology. The game was held at California State University Dominguez Hills and aired Jan. 10 on ESPN. McGrath, of Duncansville, Pa., played […]

“The Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail has been using an ‘unfair’ payment process, according to an analysis done by Ohio University students,” Susan Tebben of the Athens Messenger wrote on Dec. 22. At a recent meeting of the Corrections Commission for Southeastern Ohio, a new plan was presented to the jail […]