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Biological Sciences Major Dedicates Time and Energy to Helping Others

Hams Kashoob, carrying flag from her native Oman.

Editor’s Note: Every College of Arts & Sciences student has accomplishments worth bragging about, and we want to help you do just that! Each week we will feature a profile on an A&S student who’s doing great things. If you would like to share the accomplishments of yourself, your friends, your […]

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October 30, 2017 at 11:04 amNews

History Faculty, Alum Receive Certification as Interpretive Guides

Participants in the August 2017 Certified Interpretive Guide training, including Dr. Katherine Jellison (first from the left in the first row), History alumnus Cyrus Moore (first from the right in the first row), and Dr. Sarah Kinkel (second from the left in the second row).

Dr. Katherine Jellison, Chair and Professor of History, and Dr. Sarah Kinkel, Assistant Professor of History, recently completed a Certified Interpretive Guide training module. They were joined by Ohio University alum Cyrus Moore ’11, who earned his B.A. in History from the College of Arts & Sciences. The program is intended […]

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October 29, 2017 at 9:07 pmNews

Seeley Spent Summer in Rock Room, Then Helping with Field Camp

Observing lumps of chromite with student Christian Thomas. Credit: Emma Swaninger

By Jack Seeley Geological Sciences graduate student I started out my summer cutting rocks in Clippinger’s rock room to make slides for microscopic analysis of impact structures for my M.S. thesis under the direction of Dr. Keith Milam. After the rocks were cut, I ground them by hand in a […]

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October 29, 2017 at 4:23 pmNews

Nadas Goes on Geological Adventure to Zion, Arches, and Olympic

Trey, Hanna, Pete, and I at Bryce Canyon National Park

By Alex Nadas Geological Sciences graduate student Summer research does not always have to be all work and no play. While I spent the majority of my summer reading Ohio EPA reports and documents about my thesis topic on vapor intrusion, I did find time to get outside from time to time. […]

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October 29, 2017 at 3:25 pmNews

Spring 2018 | Food Studies Offers Spring Courses That Fill Requirements

Spring 2018 | Food Studies Offers Spring Courses That Fill Requirements

The Food Studies theme has Spring 2018 courses that fill various Ohio University general education requirements—just in time for registration. Dr. Brad Jokisch, Associate Professor of Geography, is teaching Agricultural Ecosystems (GEOG 3340). The course begins with the origins and history of the agriculture system and moves into the modernization […]

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October 29, 2017 at 2:03 pmNews

Dankwah Authors Article on Challenges to Iraqi Refugee Integration in Jordan

Kwaku Opoku Dankwah

Political Science graduate student Kwaku Opoku Dankwah co-authored an article on “Mixed fragmented migrations of Iraqis and challenges to Iraqi refugee integration: the Jordanian experience” in the Middle Eastern Studies journal. Upon completing high school in St. John’s Grammar (Accra-Ghana), Dankwah enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Political Science Major […]

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October 28, 2017 at 8:20 amNews

Torres Presents on Colonial Latin American Poets at International Conference

Dr. Daniel Torres

Dr. Daniel Torres, Spanish Professor in Modern Languages, a founding member of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Poetry and a past board member, returned as a presenter to the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) during the XIII Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. Torres presented “Finezas […]

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October 27, 2017 at 11:18 amNews Research