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One hundred faculty members of the College of Arts & Sciences were honored Sept. 20 at the fourth-annual OHIO Newsmakers Gala, and Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History, was again the year’s most-quoted faculty member. University Communications and Marketing, in partnership with the Office of the Executive Vice President […]

Dr. Brad Simpson recently visited Ohio University, kicking off the Contemporary History Institute’s fall semester speaker series. Simpson teaches and researches 20th century U.S. foreign relations and international history in the History Department of the University of Connecticut and has a joint appointment with the Asian and Asian American Studies […]

The Food Matters Club, a student organization associated with the Food Studies theme at Ohio University, made a group trip to the Athens Farmers Market on Sept. 22. While many club members attend the market regularly, for some club members, the visit was their first time experiencing the Athens Farmers […]

Ohio University undergraduate student Amanda Szinte was awarded the Ohio EPA’s Environmental Education Scholarship. Szinte is a Biological Sciences–Wildlife Conservation major and an Environmental & Plant Biology minor. The scholarship is awarded to those demonstrating knowledge and career commitment to the environmental sciences or environmental engineering. Szinte was one of […]

The Ohio University Mock Trial Team selected 24 students to participate during the 2018-19 academic year. Tryouts occurred on Sept. 12 and 13. Students were required to prepare and deliver a three-minute speech on a selected topic. At the conclusion of their prepared remarks, students were given a topic and […]

Students, professors, writers and musicians from different ages, countries and walks of life came together in a feminist and new masculinities poetry and music event #SpeakUpWoMEN at Jackie O’s on Sept. 12. They spoke up against gender violence and in support for the female victims of harassment and abuse at Ohio University and in Athens. Violeta […]

On the first day of September, in a field of ancient Celtic barrows on the wind-swept north coast of Arthurian Cornwall, Dr. Damian Nance, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences, was named a Bard of the Gorsedh Kernow, which loosely translates as the “throne” or “high seat” of the Celtic […]