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By Lauren Cartwright From Compass Ohio University sophomore Addy Kruse and junior Bertrand Neyhouse received an honorable mention for the nationally competitive Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The Goldwater Foundation offers up to $7,500 to sophomores and juniors aspiring to pursue a research career in the natural […]

Luke Griffith, a Ph.D. student in the History Department, has been awarded the 2017-18 Baker Peace Dissertation Fellowship. The award is funded by The John and Elizabeth Baker Peace Endowment, created in the 1980s to fund teaching, scholarship, and conferences at Ohio University that promote the study of conflict and […]

Sana Saidykhan, an M.A. student in the History Department, was named a 2017 recipient of the Royal Air Maroc-African Studies Association Student Travel Award. The award includes airline tickets between the United States and any Royal Air Maroc (RAM) destination in Africa, and recognizes “outstanding scholarship by future African studies scholars.” Saidykhan is utilizing the […]

Twelve students studied in Rome over spring break with one of the History Department‘s most unique courses—HIST 4536 Eternal Rome: Power and Piety. The short-term study trip to Italy during spring break is next offered in Spring 2018. This annual offering allows students to earn upper-level History credit. Such coursework can […]

The History Department awarded Grace Konyar the 2017 Eckes Prize in History. The prize is an annual cash prize of $5,000 awarded to the graduating senior History major with the highest overall GPA. Connect with her on LinkedIn. Emeritus Professor Al Eckes established the prize to recognize superior academic achievement among history majors. Konyar graduated […]

Ohio University Genomics Facility Director Dr. Bill Broach and Technician Rachel Yoho recently hosted a campus-wide open house marking the facility’s 10th anniversary. In attendance were Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate College Dr. Joseph Shields; Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences Dr. Robert Frank; […]

Kwame Edwin Otu ‘09M presented “Normative Collisions, Amphibious Evasions: Sassoi and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-making” at the Africa@OHIO Colloquium at Ohio University in March 2017. His talk was sponsored by the African Studies Program, Office for Diversity and Inclusion Multicultural Center and Programs, Africa@OHIO, the Black Student Cultural […]